Sailing a homemade houseboat on the Great Lakes is risky due to harsh weather, large waves, and vessels not designed for open ...

Buffalo’s quest to be a full time Great Lakes cruise ship port will become a reality on May 27 when a 250-passenger American ...

Wis., and Todd Young, R-Ind., led a bipartisan group of their colleagues in calling on President Donald Trump to ensure that ...

Shipments of iron ore on the Great Lakes decreased 19.1 percent from 2024 to 3.4 million tons in November. Shipments were below the month’s 5-year average by 20.3 percent. Year-to-date, the iron ore ...

Experts say the Great Lakes can be more dangerous than the open ocean due to their volatile nature. Waves on the Great Lakes are steeper and closer together, causing choppy conditions and a rougher ...

Donald Merle Rowe, 88, of Esko passed away Monday, Nov. 17, 2025. He was born July 30, 1937, to Charles and Helmi Rowe in Cloquet. He was raised in Thomson Township and graduated from Esko High School ...

50 years ago this week, the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald sunk in Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975, claiming the lives of all 29 of its crew members. The fabled ship, immortalized by Canadian singer-songwriter ...

Karen Wils and the beagle Tragedy, who was born the night the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior on Nov. 9, 1975. (Contributed photo) ESCANABA — The gales of November bent the old box elder ...

Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a... 50 years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald, a 'rock star' ...

No one was more surprised than Gordon Lightfoot when his ballad "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" became one of the biggest hits of 1976, less than a year after the disaster it commemorates. The ...