CLEVELAND, Ohio – Jerry Popiel loves music and the water, but at heart he is a storyteller. Last year he released a version of Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” for the shipwreck ...

The SS Edmund Fitzgerald vanished in one of Lake Superior’s worst storms, later found broken in two on the lakebed. This video examines her design limits, cargo loading, weather conditions, and the ...

Wind chills reached minus 30°F (minus 34°C) in North Dakota and Minnesota. The National Weather Service issued warnings for ...

ESCANABA — (Recently), a Canadian freighter accompanied by an icebreaking tug chugged into Little Bay de Noc and delivered a massive load of salt to an Escanaba dock. The buzz about the impending ...

It's a new year, and we asked Times Union staffers, librarians, business owners and readers like you to recommend their ...

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“A weathered hardhat, a pair of line-worn gloves, paint speckled boots and a discharge. That’s a wrap for the season. It was ...

A U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker assisted an Antarctica cruise ship after shifting pack ice slowed its voyage, allowing it to ...

More than 4,500 vessels pass through the locks annually, carrying 80 million tons of cargoes like iron ore, coal, limestone ...

John Deere broke ground on a 1.2 million-square-foot, $125 million distribution center near Lowell and Hebron. The tractor and agricultural equipment manufacturer will employ 150 workers.

The Lake Erie mapping project is part of a larger project, sponsored by NOAA, titled Lakebed 2030. The project aims to fully ...