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.

Great Lakes groups have spent two decades pushing for a new icebreaker, and the hoped-for money was pulled from the final ...

Blue moon ice cream, this quintessentially Midwestern, bright blue dessert, is a mystery. No one can agree on what it tastes ...

Former champion boxer Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. is allegedly wanted on an arrest warrant in Mexico, officials said.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers stands by its prediction that the water levels in the Great Lakes will continue to rise during summer months.

Coast Guard and local crews boost Great Lakes boating patrols for July 4th, targeting impaired boating and promoting safety.