Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The massive freighters that ply the Great Lakes are back at work following the early reopening of the Soo Locks for the 2025-26 ...

With the Soo Locks closed until March, Great Lakes freighters are quickly heading to port for winter maintenance at harbors from Minnesota to New York. Just a few of the bulk carriers are still moving ...

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 ...

In November 1913, the SS Henry B. Smith sailed into one of the most powerful storms ever recorded on the Great Lakes. While ...

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 ...

The Iosco was a wooden freighter hauling iron ore and towing the schooner barge Olive Jeanette when a sudden, ferocious storm ...

On this episode of Great Lakes Now: It’s been 50 years since a freighter sank in the Great Lakes, but in June 2024, one ship came dangerously close. For one crew member, the experience was life ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, MI - It may have hit 80 degrees downstate today, but it looked like winter in parts of the Upper Peninsula. An ice buildup in the Soo Locks caused an eight-hour delay for some big ...

The crew on the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw is making sure essential shipments continue on the Great Lakes.

Bill Pringle, of the Detroit Historical Society, joined Local 4 to discuss the Pilot House at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum, where visitors can walk in the captain's steps on the Great Lakes freighter ...