The Soo Locks in Sault Ste. Marie will open for the 2025 shipping season on March 21. The opening of the locks marks the start of the Great Lakes shipping season. The Soo Locks allow vessels to ...
The 1,004-foot-long American Spirit was the last Great Lakes freighter to traverse the Soo Locks for the 2025-26 shipping season on Thursday, Jan. 15, as the facility closes for winter maintenance.
The countdown is on to the start of the Great Lakes shipping season as the Soo Locks in Sault Ste. Marie are set to reopen moments after midnight Wednesday, March 25. The Poe lock will reopen for ...
SAULT STE. MARIE — First responders were dispatched to the Soo Locks on Wednesday morning for what sounded like a serious construction accident — a 30-year-old man reportedly impaled on a piece of ...
SAULT STE. MARIE, Michigan − Moments after midnight on March 25, the 8,000-horsepower Dirk S. VanEnkevort tugboat rumbled to life. It was 26 degrees and a windless evening, but the moment was charged ...