The beaches at Grand Marais are excellent hunting grounds for the ancient Lake Superior agate, a semi-precious stone made up of concentric circles of microcrystaline quartz reddened by iron. Here’s ...

A 61-year-old man died after he was reportedly swept by a large wave into Lake Superior in Lutsen, Minn., on Tuesday afternoon. The man, who hasn’t been identified, was unresponsive and drifting in ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world — a sea known for its pristine cold water. But in a warming world, that's changing. Before dawn, a crew boards the Blue Heron, ...

Lake Superior is the largest and northernmost of the five Great Lakes. The freshwater lake features dozens of lighthouses and a national park. The lake's history also includes high-profile shipwreck ...

Lake Superior is the largest of Michigan’s Great Lakes and sits atop the beautiful Upper Peninsula. It’s a big deal for Michigan’s fishing, tourist, and commercial water industries, and offers plenty ...

After nearly being wiped out in the mid-20th century, one of the Great Lakes' top native fish species has "fully recovered" in the world's greatest freshwater lake, according to natural resource ...

DULUTH — The surface temperature of Lake Superior is expected to hover in the mid-60s Tuesday — well above the limit for a group of cold-water swimming enthusiasts plunging in near Split Rock ...

Lake Superior, the largest freshwater lake in the United States and a critical natural resource, experienced its lowest water levels in a decade in 2024. According to the National Oceanic and ...

National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologists urged more than 200,000 beachgoers to stay out of the water at Lake Superior in parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin on Wednesday as the lake, fraught with ...

Lake Superior is an incredible resource, and to the naked eye its cold water appears fresh and clean. But Liz Minor, a UMD professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry and at the Large Lakes Observatory, is ...

Researchers say that a lake trout recently captured in Lake Superior is believed to be the oldest-known specimen of its species ever caught in the Great Lakes, estimated to be 62 years old. The fish ...