See the new exhibit on the Great Lakes and explore the historic Mather’s cargo holds, pilot house, guest quarters, and engine ...

Less than one week into the shipping season – the Soo Locks opened on March 21 – the Boat Nerd map shows dozens of freighters traversing Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, Lake Erie and the ...

ALPENA, MI – This Northern Michigan harbor town is expected to welcome the largest cruise ships on the Great Lakes 19 times ...

A new DNR research vessel, designed for a scientific mission on the Great Lakes, is currently being built in norther ...

While they support bolstering the U.S. shipbuilding industry, officials warned millions of dollars in fees each time a ...

Michigan's Mackinac Bridge is among 68 spans in the U.S. that should be evaluated for risk of collapse from a vessel ...

The 2025 shipping season is underway on the Great Lakes, with the Port of Hamilton welcoming its first ships Wednesday and ...

After 132 years, the final resting place of the 300-foot steel steamer Western Reserve has been discovered roughly 60 miles northwest of Whitefish Point in Lake Superior. The Great Lakes Shipwreck ...

The technologically advanced all-steel cargo ship Western Reserve, once dubbed the "inland greyhound," found broken in two at a depth of 600 feet in Lake Superior.

The Western Reserve, a 300-foot steel steamer, broke in two as it wrecked in 1892 about 60 miles northwest of Whitefish Point ...