Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LAKE HURON — On a sunny, summer Sunday morning, perfect for being on the water, David Trotter, skippered his 32-foot boat, the ...

U .S. Coast Guard cutters Mackinaw (WLBB 30) and Neah Bay (WTGB 105) conducted ice-breaking operations on the Great Lakes Jan. 21, freeing and escorting commercial vessels beset by heavy ice. The ...

CLEVELAND — U.S. Coast Guard ships worked in icy waters on the Great Lakes on Jan. 21 to help large cargo boats that were ...

PRESQUE ISLE, MI – Thick fog hung over Lake Huron on June 18, 1905. The 414-foot steamer Etruria was sailing northbound. The 545-foot freighter Amaza Stone was speeding southbound. The two ships ...

January, it's not long before the Great Lakes' largest ships dock for the season. Here's where to find them until March.

A U.S. Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin helicopter airlifted a patient from the freighter MV American Courage on Lake Huron near Harbor Beach due to a medical emergency. The helicopter crew transported the ...

The massive freighters that ply the Great Lakes are back at work following the early reopening of the Soo Locks for the 2025-26 season, and they're doing it all under the watchful eyes of webcams that ...

ALPENA, MI – Advanced navigational equipment didn’t prevent this ocean-going freighter from colliding with another ship and sinking into Lake Huron in 1959. Liberian-registered Monrovia sank on June ...