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 ...

STURGEON BAY (WLUK) -- With the arrival of spring, the season for shipping on the Great Lakes typically begins. The event coincides with the opening of the Soo Locks on Lake Superior in Michigan's ...

Twenty years before the Titanic changed maritime history, another ship touted as the next great technological feat set sail on the Great Lakes. The Western Reserve was one of the first all-steel cargo ...

The Great Lakes shipping season is kicking off this week as the the Soo Locks in Sault Ste. Marie reopen early, marking the start of the 2025 season. The Poe Lock will open at 8 a.m. Friday, U.S. Army ...

Also known as the "witches" of November, they occur between mid-October and mid-December, when storm tracks collide over the ...

Great Lakes shipping is down slightly through the end of May as compared to the same time last year. Ships have hauled 7.97 million tons of cargo on the Great Lakes and through the St. Lawrence Seaway ...

It was the greatest technological advancement of its time to sail on the Great Lakes, and just like the Titanic, a ship whose owners made similar claims, was also lost to Mother Nature. But more than ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (WLUC) - A new season of shipping on the Great Lakes is underway. That means you’ll soon see those large freighters once again. The Poe Lock opened to all marine traffic at 8 a ...

People have long shared stories about strange places where compasses go haywire and ships vanish without a trace. The Bermuda Triangle usually gets the attention, but another body of water in the ...

Two U.S. representatives from Michigan are asking the federal government to send at least one new icebreaker ship to the ...

With the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald just a couple of weeks away, Local 5 News talked with a ...