One common factor has likely played a role in water levels plunging in the Detroit River and Lake Erie this fall, along with the running aground of two freighters in Detroit in November: wind. U.S.

The ferry, carrying 38 people, disappeared while traveling from Ohio to Ontario. Nine bodies were brought to Erie, where they were identified by relatives and railroad officials. Legends persist about ...

A series of coast-to-coast storms brought heavy snow and hazardous conditions across the northern U.S. during Thanksgiving week. Blizzard conditions and strong winds impacted areas from the Plains to ...

FRANKFORT, MI - It was 145 years ago this fall that a schooner hauling iron ore met a violent end during a sudden squall in northern Lake Michigan. The wreck still litters the lake’s bottom near ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – In 2014, Sherri Mason ventured out onto Lake Erie aboard the U.S. EPA’s Lake Guardian research vessel and came back with remarkable evidence of plastic floating in the water. She ...

Powerful winds that triggered an Environment Canada alert this week pushed back Lake Erie's waterline, briefly revealing a 22-metre schooner shipwreck. Diver Matt Vermette first mistook it for an old ...

A shipwreck was briefly revealed in Lake Erie after strong winds pushed water away from the shore near Kingsville, Ontario. Historians believe the sunken vessel could be the Demming or the Overton, ...