A helicopter from U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Traverse City visited the M/V James R. Barker as it traversed the Great Lake.

Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) After spending the entire winter season in Buffalo, the lake freighter American Mariner was delayed leaving Buffalo Monday. The 715 foot long bulk carrier attempted to leave ...

LUDINGTON, MI - The Armistice Day Storm of 1940 was a freak weather event that killed more than 150 people, including 64 sailors on Lake Michigan. Hurricane-force winds were whipping up 40-foot waves ...

U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Detroit deploys a helicopter crew to conduct overflights of Canadian vessel Manitoulin trapped in a frozen Lake Erie on Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025 in Buffalo, N.Y. (U.S.

The green glow of the aurora borealis could be seen from the M/V Lee A. Tregurtha as it traversed Lake Superior overnight. Several photos of the Northern Lights were posted today to Interlake ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Not since the Edmund Fitzgerald went down 50 years ago today has a giant freighter been lost on the Great Lakes, but prior to then, a number of big ships met their demise, often in ...

A U.S. Coast Guard MH-60 helicopter conducted an airlift operation to rescue a patient from a freighter on Lake Superior due to a medical emergency. The helicopter, dispatched from Traverse City on ...

DULUTH — The Western Reserve, a mammoth and nearly new steam freighter, was en route to Two Harbors in August 1892 when it split in half during a storm and quickly sank to the depths of Lake Superior, ...