The steamer Alpena on Lake Michigan, July 29, 2023. Alpena was sidelined for six months at the beginning of the 2025 season ...

NORTHERN MICHIGAN, (WPBN/WGTU) -- You may not be thinking about cruises right now, but Cruise The Great Lakes certainly is, and the organization expects a big turnout next year. Cathleen Domanico, the ...

ALPENA, MI – Advanced navigational equipment didn’t prevent this ocean-going freighter from colliding with another ship and sinking into Lake Huron in 1959. Liberian-registered Monrovia sank on June ...

The SS Edmund Fitzgerald turned heads when she was launched in Detroit in 1958. The ship was longer and could carry more ...

Board one of the largest sailing vessels in the Great Lakes for an autumn windjammer cruise. The Traverse Tall Ship Company still has openings on these September voyages. In addition, enjoy a 20% ...

Even as the booming Great Lakes cruise industry has filled wharves in other cities, Rochester has been left out. That changes ...

BAY CITY, MI – The 85-foot schooner Appledore IV serves not just as a workspace for Matthew Tkach and Sydney Bickerstaff. It’s also a classroom. It’s a link between people and the Great Lakes. And ...

In his new book, "The Gales of November," John U. Bacon explores the history and mysteries of the 1975 wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, a record-setting freighter ship.

The Tall Ships Challenge, a series of races and events by Tall Ships America, will stop in Erie, Pa. on Aug. 21-24. The challenge includes tall ships from various countries visiting American and ...

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

Toledo's harbor will see its first cruise ship in decades when a Great Lakes vessel docks there Friday. Victory Cruise Lines' 286-foot ship, called Victory I, will dock at One Maritime Plaza at 11:30 ...

DULUTH — The Trump administration’s new trade rules aimed at penalizing operators of Chinese-built ships and boosting domestic shipbuilding appear to have spared the Great Lakes shipping industry from ...