A similar railroad at Brandon Road or some other pinch-point in the canals that connect the Mississippi and the Great Lakes could be built.

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 Northerner sank in 1868 and has been resting upright on the lakebed of Lake Michigan off the coast of Wisconsin ever since. Hibbard Inshore / NOAA On November 28, 1868, an American schooner called ...

ESCANABA — (Recently), a Canadian freighter accompanied by an icebreaking tug chugged into Little Bay de Noc and delivered a massive load of salt to an Escanaba dock. The buzz about the impending ...

Subscribe to the Wake Up, cleveland.com’s free morning newsletter, delivered to your inbox weekdays at 5:30 a.m. The Great Lakes are closed for the shipping season. And just in time, since ice cover ...

The Cascade Lakes hold a wealth of history, biology and natural beauty that Adirondackers and visitors have enjoyed for centuries.

Save this for the off season, these Michigan shore towns feel wide open in winter, with views that do most of the work.

Michigan hides quiet corners where the chatter drops and the landscape does the taking. These are the places where the air smells like pine shavings and cold stone, and where the rhythmic “slap” of ...

The House of Representatives, spurred by Rep. Ryan Zinke, voted to override a 3-year-old Interior Department order that temporarily banned copper sulfide mining in the headwaters of the Boundary ...