With the arrival of spring, the season for shipping on the Great Lakes typically begins.The event coincides with the opening ...

A partnership that sprouted from the soybean commodity in Michigan has blossomed into an alliance that has the potential to boost trade on the St. Lawrence Seaway. The Great Lakes Sustainable Shipping ...

The 2025 Great Lakes shipping season kicks off this week when the Soo Locks in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and reopen early ...

Viking Octantis made its Great Lakes debut in 2022 and was joined by its identical sister, Viking Polaris, in 2023.

The Great Lakes shipping season returns this week - and there's more than one way to watch the Soo Locks open for the first time this year. Here's how: ...

On March 6, Watco Railroad Company Holdings, Inc. announced plans to acquire ownership of Great Lakes Central Railroad (GLC), ...

The AuSable River Queen, a paddlewheel boat that provided tours along the AuSable River west of Oscoda, sank in the river ...

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 ...

LONDON — British police on Tuesday arrested the captain of a cargo ship on suspicion of manslaughter as they searched for answers about why it hit a tanker transporting jet fuel for the U.S ...

SAGINAW, Mich. (WNEM) - Demonstrators were out in Saginaw Tuesday, March 11, taking part in a “Fight for Democracy” protest. They fear the Trump administration could go after programs like ...

For almost 132 years the lake hid the wreckage. In July, explorers from the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society pinpointed the Western Reserve off Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The society ...

Dubbed the “Inland Greyhound” for its speed, the trailblazing freighter was the first ship built for the Great Lakes that was comprised entirely of steel. At 300 feet long, this marvel of ...