Therese Langer Woelfel is the author of "Our Guiding Light: Wisdom from the Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter," about her ...

Tamara Thomsen, a maritime archaeologist and diving instructor, has helped uncover more than 100 shipwrecks across the region ...

Waves on the Great Lakes are steeper and packed closer together than on the ocean, making them harder to read and faster to change. Experts say that volatility can make navigating the Great Lakes even ...

As a politics professor who studies Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, I find that one of the most unique things about Fetterman is his political rise from mayor of Braddock, Pennsylvania – a small ...

The Bradley was built in 1927 by the American Ship Building Company in Lorain, Ohio. It was owned by the Michigan Limestone & Chemical Co. and built specifically to transfer limestone from a massive ...

Michigan’s shoreline towns will welcome thousands of visitors who step off luxury Great Lakes cruise ships in 2026. Who are they? “Cruise passengers are generally retirees with disposable income who ...

Cleveland-owned and crewed by Great Lakes men, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a November storm in 1975, but its lessons and legacy still echo across the water.

Once the most popular wildlife reserve in all of Africa, Uganda’s most historic game park is now enjoying a glorious renaissance ...

Hidden in the Milwaukee Public Library's Central Library, 814 W. Wisconsin Ave., is a little-known collection of artifacts related to ships that have traversed the Great Lakes for the past 400 years — ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Great Lakes cruising in 2026 is projected to deliver record growth, new itineraries and a major economic lift across the region. The season will be highlighted by the debut of ...

No one was more surprised than Gordon Lightfoot when his ballad "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" became one of the biggest hits of 1976, less than a year after the disaster it commemorates. The ...

News 8 is producing a series of stories that will be published in the days leading up to Nov. 10, the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. It will culminate with a WOOD TV+ special ...