Winter storms on the Great Lakes have a habit of briefly giving things back. Here's how winter weather plays a part.

Michigan scientists and a whiskey distiller are on a quest to resurrect historical varieties of rye and use them to make ...

MADISON, Wis. — The Great Lakes’ frigid fresh water used to keep shipwrecks so well preserved that divers could see dishes in the cupboards. Downed planes that spent decades underwater were left so ...

Fifty years ago this month, the gales of November swallowed the SS Edmund Fitzgerald along with her crew of 29 men, one of the largest ships to go down on Lake Superior and the Great Lakes. Remembered ...

A bit of wood poking out of the sand. A piece of metal under the waves. You may have stumbled upon a washed-up shipwreck. An estimated 6,000 vessels have been lost on the Great Lakes with ...

Shipping season is underway on the Great Lakes; and while nearly everyone is familiar with the dangers if "the gales of November come early," sailors know just as well how dangerous early season ...

The JC Ames was one of the most powerful tugboats of its time. The step-grandson of a famous Great Lakes shipwreck finder recently made his own historic discovery in Wisconsin—the long-lost remains of ...

M I L W A U K E E, Jan. 2 -- Like tourists in an underwater museum, diversin the Great Lakes explore shipwrecks searching for remnants ofclothes, containers of food or even floating human remains.

In the last several months, two more-than-a-century-old shipwrecks were discovered in the Great Lakes - the SS James Carruthers in Lake Huron, one of the largest missing ships in the region, and the ...