A friendly snowy owl landed on the Great Lakes freighter James R. Barker on Monday, much to the crew’s delight.

All of the Great Lakes are down 3 to 7 inches from this time last year. Low levels can affect shoreline ecosystems, access to ...

It has been 49 years since the cargo freighter the SS Edmund Fitzgerald was dragged down by the waves of Lake Superior. It is ...

from the State of Michigan as well as the Great Lakes region," said Achenbach. The tugboat was built in 1958, but rebuilt in ...

In the study, "Silver carp experience metabolic and behavioral changes when exposed to water from the Chicago Area Waterway," ...

The rye sunk in a shipwreck in Lake Huron doesn't exist anywhere else in the world, and now a Michigan distillery wants to ...

Tribal communities have played a critical role in lake sturgeon restoration efforts in the Great Lakes, yet their efforts are ...

In a name-your-poison twist, a new study from the University of Illinois adds to the evidence that Chicago-area waterway ...

The most famous shipwreck in Great Lakes history is the loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975. Seventeen years before, ...

Dig deeper:Christmas Tree Ship the Rouse Simmons sank on Lake Michigan 109 years ago. Wisconsin Maritime Museum will honor ...

Government agencies are working to stop them from entering Lake Michigan, where they could harm native fish and the $7 ...

We were standing 80 feet above the ground beneath a bright, sunlit sky peering across a great inland sea. Our guide pointed ...