January, it's not long before the Great Lakes' largest ships dock for the season. Here's where to find them until March.

To prevent further spread of potentially catastrophic invasive species in the Great Lakes, the Canadian government is moving forward with tighter restrictions on all freighters. But standards ...

The M/V Herbert C. Jackson made her final trip through the Soo Locks for the 2025/2026 shipping season January 13.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A large freighter and a commercial tug were freed Thursday after becoming stuck in thick ice on Lake Erie ...

CLEVELAND — U.S. Coast Guard ships worked in icy waters on the Great Lakes on Jan. 21 to help large cargo boats that were ...

The massive freighters that ply the Great Lakes are back at work following the early reopening of the Soo Locks for the 2025-26 season, and they're doing it all under the watchful eyes of webcams that ...

The locks will close until March 25 when the spring shipping season begins. The MacArthur Lock is scheduled to reopen in late April 2026. In 2025, the last ship through the locks was the American ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SAULT STE. MARIE, MI - The last freighter to make it through the Soo Locks before the huge system closed Thursday night for its ...

A German shipping company that owns the Cornelia, a freighter detained for six weeks in Duluth last winter, has been indicted for disposing oil-contaminated waste into the Great Lakes. On Wednesday, ...

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 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — It will be at least another day mired about a mile off shore from Buffalo for the crew of the Great Lakes freighter Manitoulin, which became stuck in ice after leaving the Queen City ...

In May 1953, a Great Lakes freighter set out on what should have been a normal trip, but winds and waves from a sudden gale tore its hatch covers open and flooded the hold, leaving the vessel at the ...