LAKE SUPERIOR

Residents are up in arms about a proposed spaceport project, the first of its kind in the Midwest, which would involve launching rockets near the shoreline of Lake Superior.

The shipwreck group posted photos and video with the name of the ship clearly visible at a depth of more than 600 feet.

Even the gold letters of the ship's nameplate are still visible.

Feb. 4—BLOOMER — Bill Hable was 46 when he embarked on a project intended to fill his retirement with joy. The Bloomer resident, an engineer by trade, planned to build a 41-foot wooden schooner that he could sail on the ocean after retiring at age 62. Hable started by grabbing a chainsaw, cutting down several trees and making the first boards for the massive boat. He figured the project would ...

Today marks the anniversary of the loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald, a 729-foot ore carrier in Lake Superior that was lost in 1975.

Some parts of the Northern Great Lakes region were greeted by their first significant snowfall of the season earlier this week, but not even the arrival of the fluffy white stuff could mask these historic times for the Great Lakes themselves.

Getting to Marquette, Michigan isn’t the easiest of tasks, given its location in the middle-northern tip of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, right along Lake Superior.

The planet has been losing 33,000 square miles (87,000 square kilometers) of ice coverage each year since 1979.

A cliff wall broke away at a national park along Lake Superior in northern Michigan, stunning some boaters who captured it on video. The park's cliffs are 50 feet to 200 feet (15.2 meters to 60.9 meters) above the lake. “We could hear the cliff wall popping and cracking and within 60 seconds a section of cliff approximately 200 feet wide fell before us," Jahn Martin told WLUC-TV.

If you’re driving in your car a lot today, don’t be surprised if you hear more Gordon Lightfoot than usual.

The beauty of Lake Superior's ice piles Along the north shore of Lake Superior in Duluth, Minn., massive piles of broken ice lie frozen in sculptural formations.