Fifty years after the Great Lakes freighter sank, scientists can explain the weather that still haunts Lake Superior.

From hand-built canoes to massive freighters, violent storms have tested ships for centuries and led to tragedies that ...

We are holding our own” – the last radio transmission by the SS Edmund Fitzgerald to the SS Arthur M. Anderson on November 10 ...

The 50th anniversary of the shipwreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald reminds us of how important the Great Lakes are as a conduit of commerce.

LAKE SUPERIOR, MI - It was 50 years ago today that the Edmund Fitzgerald was being loaded with 26,000 tons of iron ore, ...

Large stretches of the U.S. await one of the season’s first blasts of wintry weather as temperatures dropped in the Northern ...

Also known as the "witches" of November, they occur between mid-October and mid-December, when storm tracks collide over the Great Lakes, ...

In the fall of 1913, a violent force was unleashed across the Great Lakes. More than a century later, it still goes by many names. All are deadly: The White Hurricane. The Big Blow. The Frozen Fury.