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

The winter maintenance period lasts into March and allows crews from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to perform needed ...

CLEVELAND — U.S. Coast Guard ships worked in icy waters on the Great Lakes on Jan. 21 to help large cargo boats that were stuck in ice. Two Coast Guard cutters — the Mackinaw and the Neah Bay — broke ...

A timelapse video posted to social media shows a Great Lakes freighter make its final transit of the season through the. In ...

The M/V Herbert C. Jackson made her final trip through the Soo Locks for the 2025/2026 shipping season January 13.

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 ...

The American Spirit was scheduled to winter in Toledo when it noticed it was traveling slower than usual, the Coast Guard ...

During the catastrophic Great Lakes Storm of 1913, SS Henry B. Smith vanished while battling extreme winds and towering waves ...

The locks will close until March 25 when the spring shipping season begins. The MacArthur Lock is scheduled to reopen in late April 2026. In 2025, the last ship through the locks was the American ...

A ship built 16 years before the ill-fated SS Edmund Fitzgerald, which sank in 1975, still navigates the waters of the Great Lakes transporting cargo. The SS Alpena, launched in 1942 under the name SS ...

U.S. Coast Guard ice-breakers rescued two ships on the Great Lakes while clearing the way for maritime shipping.

Bill Pringle, of the Detroit Historical Society, joined Local 4 to discuss the Pilot House at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum, where visitors can walk in the captain's steps on the Great Lakes freighter ...