Drivers lined up on Woodmere Avenue in Traverse City as a Great Lakes Central Railroad train with more than 100 cars backed across the street.

Longtime drag racing promoter Randy Henning died in January but not before laying the groundwork for the track's continued ...

Using old records, scientists created a new dataset on ice cover since 1897. It's already being used to study a declining fish species.

The Erie steamship was on a routine crossing of Lake Erie, carrying passengers and crew into what should have been smooth waters — until a sudden, ferocious storm struck with near hurricane-force ...

The wooden steamship Adella Shores set out across icy Lake Superior in 1909 but vanished without a trace, leaving 14 crew members presumed dead and no one knowing what happened. Over a century later, ...

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 ...

After a deep freeze across the Great Lakes region, Lake Erie is nearly completed iced over and the rest of the lakes have seen significant increases in coverage. Researchers on Sunday, Jan. 25, ...

CLEVELAND — Do you have weather whiplash yet? The Great Lakes sure do! There have been several large temperature swings this season. As a result, ice coverage on the lakes has been all over the place ...

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 ...

Here’s the latest fake news that’s unfit to print. WASHINGTON — President Donald J. Trump announced yesterday he is planning to change the name of the Great Lakes and also rename every body of water ...

MENTOR, Ohio — A Beachwood man has been arrested and charged with felony voyeurism after a witness said he tried to film an 11-year-old boy who was using the bathroom Tuesday at Great Lakes Mall in ...

MENTOR, Ohio (WOIO) - A trip to Great Lakes Mall during winter break turned into a disturbing day when a father witnessed a man possibly recording his young son using the restroom, police confirmed.