In honor of the 50th year since the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum will host two memorials.

Ask any Michigan child to name two famous shipwrecks and, chances are, they’ll say the Titanic and the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Just 20 feet shy of breaking the surface, this 1,000-foot-tall sunken mountain in Lake Superior is allegedly responsible for ...

It was a calm and clear afternoon when the Edmund Fitzgerald left port in Superior, Wisconsin, on November 9, 1975. The ...

From the column: "We would crash directly into a wave and the whole boat would suddenly go airborne, leaving us weightless ...

It has been a half-century since the ship sank on Lake Superior, and a pop single memorialized its fate. Now museums are ...

The mighty ship, immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot, sank 50 years ago on Lake Superior. Our reporter spent a week on a Great Lakes freighter that survived the storm.

Gulig embarks on a roadtrip that echoes Niedecker’s travels shaping her "Lake Superior" poem. Lorine Niedecker’s poem, "Lake Superior," published in North Central (1968), marked a period of new ...

Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory in Duluth, Minn. is one of the nation's top spots to view migrating raptors and other birds in ...

DULUTH, MINN. - The sky above Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory on Sept. 18 was gray, woolen and seemingly static. Lake Superior, though, was rocking with an east wind; whitecaps pocked its surface. And ...