This Ohio museum reveals Great Lakes shipwreck stories through immersive exhibits, artifacts, and unforgettable history.

A ship built 16 years before the ill-fated SS Edmund Fitzgerald, which sank in 1975, still navigates the waters of the Great Lakes transporting cargo. The SS Alpena, launched in 1942 under the name SS ...

Some estimates put the total number of shipwrecks in the Great Lakes as high as 10,000, but Jensen thinks a more conservative number is between 4,000 or 5,000. In Wisconsin, where maritime ...

Congressional negotiators reached a deal Tuesday that would effectively exempt 13 ships that haul iron ore, coal and other freight on the Great Lakes from a proposed federal rule meant to reduce air ...

The 2025 Great Lakes shipping season will kick off four days earlier than expected. That’s because the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has agreed to open the Soo Locks to shipping traffic on the morning ...

Lower‑than‑average Great Lakes water levels are forcing freighters to watch loads even as cruise lines forecast record passenger growth.

DULUTH — The Trump administration’s new trade rules aimed at penalizing operators of Chinese-built ships and boosting domestic shipbuilding appear to have spared the Great Lakes shipping industry from ...

The history of courageous ship mascot animals who braved Great Lakes storms alongside their mariners will be chronicled on April 21, when researcher Ric Mixter visits the Marysville Library. The free ...

A German shipping company that owns the Cornelia, a freighter detained for six weeks in Duluth last winter, has been indicted for disposing oil-contaminated waste into the Great Lakes. On Wednesday, ...