“Waterspouts are a marine hazard. They’re known for flipping over small boats. But if they do move onshore, especially the ...

A nail-biting drama played out just off the tip of Michigan’s northernmost peninsula. It's almost too amazing to believe.

Fifty years after the Great Lakes freighter sank, scientists can explain the weather that still haunts Lake Superior.

Maybury State Park offers 1,000 acres of rolling hills, forests, and meadows. It’s like someone dropped a piece of northern Michigan right next to the city! The park was once a tuberculosis sanitarium ...

Monday is the 50th anniversary of one of the most tragic and well-known shipwrecks on the Great Lakes, the sinking of the ...

There’s something special about landmark anniversaries and the media coverage that they attract. We’ll have one such event on Monday. It’s the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Great Lakes ...

From hand-built canoes to massive freighters, violent storms have tested ships for centuries and led to tragedies that ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald, a renowned freighter on the Great Lakes, sank in Lake Superior in 1975, claiming the lives of all 29 ...

Twenty-nine sailors drowned in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975, and the ship was immortalized in a surprise hit ...

This Monday, November 10, is the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the steamer Edmund Fitzgerald. The combination of the vessel’s sudden loss with all hands, its occurrence in a ...

November is a month well known for being a transition month on the Great Lakes. Powerful storms, intense winds, arctic air ...

When it launched from the Great Lakes Engineering Works in River Rouge, Michigan, in 1958, the Edmund Fitzgerald was the largest ship in the Great Lakes. For roughly a year, the 729-foot vessel was ...