PRESQUE ISLE, MI – Thick fog hung over Lake Huron on June 18, 1905. The 414-foot steamer Etruria was sailing northbound. The 545-foot freighter Amaza Stone was speeding southbound. The two ships ...

Fifty years after the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a deadly Lake Superior storm, descendants of its namesake are returning to Port Huron, not just to honor the tragedy, but to help complete the ...

A U.S. Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin helicopter airlifted a patient from the freighter MV American Courage on Lake Huron near Harbor Beach due to a medical emergency. The helicopter crew transported the ...

ALPENA, MI – Advanced navigational equipment didn’t prevent this ocean-going freighter from colliding with another ship and sinking into Lake Huron in 1959. Liberian-registered Monrovia sank on June ...

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 ...

David Trotter and a tight-knit crew of explorers have spent decades looking for lost vessels. The Carruthers was the last of eight vessels that sank in a 1913 storm that was still missing. LAKE HURON ...

The Fitzgerald family has a long maritime history in Port Huron, dating back to 1837. The swim will trace the freighter's intended route, symbolically completing its final voyage. The relay will raise ...