This Northern Michigan harbor town is celebrating five years as a cruise ship port and expects to welcome the largest ...

The Association of Lifelong Learners (ALL) programs for next week will feature a lot of fun, exciting, and education ...

SEATTLE and HOUSTON, April 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Saltchuk Resources, Inc. (“Saltchuk”) today welcomed Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation (“Great Lakes”) as its newest wholly owned subsidiary ...

If you don’t know what the U.S. Merchant Marine does, you should. Although not part of the military, this civilian organization is responsible for a fleet of U.S.-registered commercial ships that ...

The Great Lakes shipping season is officially back. The Poe Lock at the Soo Locks in Sault Ste. Marie reopened just after midnight. The first ship to make the crossing this year was the Michigan ...

Sault Ste. Marie — Icebreakers are chewing through late-season ice on key routes as the Soo Locks prepare to open at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, signaling the start of the 2026 Great Lakes commercial ...

There are no wind turbines on the Great Lakes — and it isn’t for lack of wind. This titanic network of interconnected freshwater lakes with a surface area larger than New England, New York, and New ...

Gov. JB Pritzker and U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin want President Donald Trump to put money where his mouth is on a massive project to help stop invasive carp from entering the Great Lakes — a project the ...

President Trump says he is working with Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and other regional officials in support of a lock and dam system intended to keep Asian carp out of the Great Lakes. "I'm working ...

Lake Superior from Sugar Loaf Mountain in Marquette, Michigan - Wirestock Creators/Shutterstock Sunrise on the shoreline of Lake Erie from Geneva State Park, Geneva-on-the-lake, Ohio - Jim ...

TRAVERSE CITY — The Great Lakes Children’s Museum has opened Shipwreck at Curiosity Bay, a new immersive exhibit at Curiosity Place that invites children and families to explore Great Lakes shipwrecks ...

Detroit — Great Lakes water levels are expected to run several inches to a foot below average during the 2026 boating season, a shift that Lake Carriers’ Association officials say could lessen ...