While ice is starting to close in on the Great Lakes, the Soo Locks remain open for a few more days. When the season ends.

Ice on Lake Erie is a familiar sight most winters, but as we've been telling you, an exceptionally cold December brought the ...

Shippers of taconite from the iron range to the north have until Jan. 15 to get shipments throught the Soo Locks that allow ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, MI - Michigan’s famous Soo Locks has set its closing date ahead of its annual winter maintenance work. And with this massive lock system closing for several weeks, it will cut off ...

As of Sunday afternoon, 13 vessels had yet to pass through the St. Lawrence Seaway's final lock near Montreal. The seaway closes Monday. Shipping within the Great Lakes is also being hampered by ice.

The lakes' frozen waters are currently impacting commercial traffic between ports across the Great Lakes in places like ...

The SS Alpena, the oldest working freighter on Michigan's Great Lakes, is back on course for another shipping season. As of 9:30 a.m. on Aug. 28, the ship was en route from Cleveland, Ohio, and was on ...

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 ...

Attorney General Dana Nessel has asked a federal appeals court to strike down federal rules that, she said, put the Great Lakes at risk of invasive species that damage the lakes’ ecosystem ...