FEATURE: Fifty years after the freighter vanished in a November storm, the families left behind — ‘the wives and the sons and ...

From super-sized natural wonders and man-made marvels to some of the weirdest, creepiest, and teeny-tiniest sights, we take a ...

If you are thinking about where to find the most beautiful lakes in the Midwest, Michigan is a good place to start. Known as the Great Lake State, it borders four of the five Great Lakes in North ...

The Edmund Fitzgerald sank 50 years ago this month, falling beneath the depths of Lake Superior and taking its 29 crew members with it. The legacy of the shipwreck doesn't begin with its sinking. The ...

At 7 p.m., on Monday, Nov. 10, just minutes shy of precisely 50 years after the SS Edmund Fitzgerald plummeted to the depths of Lake Superior, the ship's original ...

We are approaching the 50th anniversary of the tragic sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior. The 1975 shipwreck claimed the lives of all 29 on board, and the cause of the sinking is still ...

PRESQUE ISLE, MI - After 175 years, this wooden schooner is intact from stem to stern. Resting 135 feet underwater, the Northwestern looms out of the depths of Lake Huron looking almost as if it’s ...

It was a calm and clear afternoon when the Edmund Fitzgerald left port in Superior, Wisconsin, on November 9, 1975. The enormous ship carried more than 26,000 tons of iron ore in the form of taconite ...

Park trails along Lake Michigan’s shoreline in Michigan and Wisconsin are eroding because of more frequent extreme precipitation events and increased foot traffic from visitors in undesignated ...

Lake Michigan is at the warmest temperature for Oct. 9 dating back 30 years. The dataset for good, high resolution, surface water temperatures dates back to 1995. The year 1995 finally had satellites ...