The SS Edmund Fitzgerald turned heads when she was launched in Detroit in 1958. The ship was longer and could carry more taconite than any other Great Lakes freighter, and it boasted plush quarters ...

Shadow Ticket,” Pynchon’s first book in a dozen years, unfolds its conspiracies in Depression-era Milwaukee and beyond, but ...

Skip the crowds of New England and experience leaf-peeping season in under-the-radar places like Oregon, Colorado, and even ...

The National Weather Service is calling for high winds and waves along most of the Lake Michigan shoreline Oct. 5. The S.S. Badger won't sail Sunday.

Dangerous swimming conditions are being forecast for a big stretch of Lake Michigan’s most popular beaches on Sunday. Waves ...

Researchers in Wisconsin recently discovered a long-lost "ghost ship," hidden in Lake Michigan for nearly 140 years. The Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS) announced the discovery on Sept. 15. In a ...

The water temperatures on the Great Lakes can influence how storm systems move across the eastern U.S. In the next upcoming storm system, it is being influenced by the warmest part of the Great Lakes.

A grieving father is speaking out after his two young children were found dead in Lake Michigan on Saturday. The bodies of one-year-old Jream Washington and six-year-old Wyatt Payton were pulled from ...

Fierce winds beginning Thursday are expected to create high waves and dangerous swimming and boating conditions all along Lake Michigan's South Shore through at least Friday, according to the National ...

BAILEYS HARBOR — Shipwrecks in Lake Michigan once again made national news this month with the announcement of the discovery of the F.J. King, an three-masted wooden schooner found just off Door ...

Researchers in Wisconsin recently discovered a long-lost “ghost ship,” hidden in Lake Michigan for nearly 140 years. The Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS) announced the discovery on Sept. 15. In a ...