The U.S. Coast Guard Sector Northern Great Lakes began ice-breaking operations in the Great Lakes on Wednesday for the winter shipping season. Currently, the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Spar will […]
Duluth, Minnesota – At its Annual Meeting, held this week on the shores of Lake Superior in Duluth, Minnesota, the Great Lakes Commission (GLC) passed
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum that stands on the shore of Lake Superior holds the bell of the Edmund Fitzgerald and hosts an annual ceremony at which family members gather […]
In terms of popular fascination, few shipwrecks compare to the foundering of the Edmund Fitzgerald in a 1975 Lake Superior storm, with the loss of its entire 29-person crew. The […]
First lit in 1901, the red-roofed, south light house in the Duluth Canal has stood longer than the lift bridge itself. It has now been acquired by the Lake Superior […]
While docked after studying algae blooms in lakes Erie and Superior, the crew of the Great Lakes research vessel Blue Heron noticed a black, tar-like substance oozing from the rudder […]
he Great Lakes Aquarium is making history, as well as reflecting on it, by opening their time capsule from 25 years ago when the aquarium first opened in July 2000. […]
n the third Sunday of July, the community in Superior, Wisconsin, shows its appreciation for the great lake with Lake Superior Day. Read the full story by WDIO-TV – Duluth, […]
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Lake Champlain is more than 16 times smaller than Lake Ontario, the smallest Great Lake. But in 1998, Congress designated Lake Champlain as the sixth Great Lake, teeing off a historical and cultural fight over which lakes can really call themselves Great.
For the first time in six years, the iconic light from the Two Harbors Lighthouse beacon 25 miles northeast of Duluth will once again sweep across Lake Superior. Read the […]
‘Ship goo’ was found oozing out of a University of Minnesota Duluth research vessel’s rudder shaft. DNA sequencing revealed it was a previously unknown microbe species. It seems to thrive […]
A Superior, Wisconsin, native, Mike McCoshen, was sworn in as the new top official at the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp. Read the full story by the Duluth […]