It seems no matter where you turn, webcams are keeping an eye on Great Lakes shipping. Here's where you can watch 1,000-footers pass by.

Marinetraffic.com maintains a real-time map of all international shipping and includes the ability to click on Great Lakes ships to see their names, destinations and speeds. Other options allow ...

Less than one week into the shipping season – the Soo Locks opened on March 21 – the Boat Nerd map shows dozens of freighters ...

Establishing the Robinson Treaties, covering land around Lake Huron and Lake Superior, created a mess of jurisdiction and ...

Maybe this guy who wants to be governor of that state due south of us was kidding when he talked about changing the name of .

The name would also mess up the classic Great Lakes mnemonic, HOMES, for Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior. Substitute O for E and you'd have HOMOS, which wouldn't exactly play to Ramaswamy ...

Discover family-friendly spring adventures in. Fishing, trails, wildlife and more are in store in May and June.

The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy noted that the names of the five Great Lakes were originally given by French explorers and Indigenous people. Ramaswamy said he ...

The first day of RAGBRAI 2025 will start in the northwest Iowa town of Orange City and end near West Lake Okoboji in Milford.

Thanks to its irregular shape, the Canadian province of Ontario dips far down into the Great Lakes region and farther south ...

In 1889, the British journalist Henry Morton Stanley stumbled out of the forests of Central Africa into the town of Katwe, a ...

The Eastern Whip-poor-will (Antrostomus vociferus) is often heard but seldom observed due to its camouflage plumage. It sings its name on summer nights from moist, leafy woodlands. By day, this bird ...