Bipartisan legislation designed to help keep shipping lanes open in the winter and ultimately strengthen the midwestern ...

The legislation directs the U.S. Coast Guard to provide a new heavy icebreaker for the Great Lakes and to evaluate the existing fleet.

Several international crew members working aboard two ships operated by Victory Cruise Lines were recently removed from the ...

Photographer David Zurick’s 'Third Coast' celebrates the Great Lakes’ 4,500-mile shoreline, which covers more distance than ...

Beneath the hype, the region faces a host of both potential and very real climate-related problems. Many of these relate to ...

Excessive infrastructure spending, climate change and a strained regulatory system add costs for ratepayers, advocates say.