Lake Superior was calm, and the Michipicoten was plying deep waters June 8 when the ship's crew heard a loud bang. The 698-foot freighter suddenly began taking on water near Isle Royale. The ...

Lake Superior was calm, and the Michipicoten was plying deep waters June 8 when the ship's crew heard a loud bang. The 698-foot freighter suddenly began taking on water near Isle Royale. The ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized new ballast water regulations that exempt existing Great Lakes ships from having to install onboard treatment. On Tuesday, Sept. 24, the EPA ...

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 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — It will be at least another day mired about a mile off shore from Buffalo for the crew of the Great Lakes freighter Manitoulin, which became stuck in ice after leaving the Queen City ...

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, ...

ALPENA, MI – Advanced navigational equipment didn’t prevent this ocean-going freighter from colliding with another ship and sinking into Lake Huron in 1959. Liberian-registered Monrovia sank on June ...

Freighter food, mail delivery, and the life of a Great Lakes freighter pilot. In this episode of Great Lakes Now, delivering mail to Great Lakes freighters, a day in the life of a freighter pilot, and ...

MUSKEGON, MI — The preservation association of the S.S. Milwaukee Clipper is raising money to help transform the Queen of the Great Lakes into a 48-room floating hotel, or “boatel.” Among the 48 rooms ...

News 8 is producing a series of stories that will be published in the days leading up to Nov. 10, the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. It will culminate with a WOOD TV+ special ...