A helicopter from U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City visited the M/V James R. Barker as it traversed the Great Lake.

The massive freighters that ply the Great Lakes are back at work following the early reopening of the Soo Locks for the 2025-26 season, and they're doing it all under the watchful eyes of webcams that ...

The massive freighters that ply the Great Lakes are back at work following the early reopening of the Soo Locks for the 2025-26 season, and they're doing it all under the watchful eyes of webcams that ...

As an extension of our Outdoors Bound franchise, we bring you a series of occasional “Road Trip” reports. They are a way for us to provide you with outdoors vacation ideas and even “bucket list” ...

A quiet fishing outing on Lake Michigan turned into a once-in-a-lifetime brush with history when a Wisconsin dad and his ...

Great Lakes freighters and their crews don’t get the day off for holidays. “When sailing the (Great) Lakes, our mariners work every day to keep commerce flowing to the industrial and manufacturing ...

“Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours? The searches all say they’d have made Whitefish Bay if they’d put fifteen more miles behind her” — Gordon ...

TRAVERSE CITY — The Great Lakes Maritime Academy hosted its 50th annual Mariners Memorial Service on Monday afternoon. The annual ceremony took place at the Great Lakes Campus of Northwestern Michigan ...

A life ring from the Edmund Fitzgerald, the famous Great Lakes freighter that was shipwrecked 50 years ago, will be auctioned in Detroit this month. The orange life ring washed onto the Lake Superior ...