Jason Fahy and Holly Pettus of URI's Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute share details on the Lake Ontario shipwreck ...

Shipping in the Great Lakes first began about 300 years ago with French fur trappers, followed by loggers, salt miners and other industries. The Great Lakes region was also a theater of war during the ...

A boat capsized Sunday in waters off Yemen's coast leaving 68 African migrants dead and 74 others missing, the U.N.’s migration agency said.

Lake Erie is the shallowest of the Great Lakes but bests its cousins in several other ways. Find out more about all the Great ...

With volcanoes, mountains, and forests, Canada’s not short on natural landmarks,but there’s something particularly special ...

The 90 feet wooden schooner Maggie L was one of the last commercial sailing ships on Lake Ontario and the St Lawrence River.

Salt Lake City recently transferred foreign trade zone authority to World Trade Center Utah. The zone offers duty fee reductions, benefiting Utah's economy, officials say. The transfer sets the ...

Hundreds of thousands of people in New York were warned to stay out of Lake Ontario on Monday morning amid dangerous conditions.

An angler caught a 39-year-old lake trout while fishing near Sheboygan on Lake Michigan. The fish is the oldest in the history of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service mass marking program.

Authorities search Lake Erie in Millcreek for a missing kayaker as crews recover the body of a Pittsburgh man missing on the lake since July 2.

The New York State Police are investigating a fatal drowning that occurred in Lake Ontario near the shoreline of Little Field Place in the town of Ellisburg.