Modern technology provides the ability to learn definitively what sank the Edmund Fitzgerald — if the restrictions over diving her remains are lifted.

November 10 will mark 50 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald was lost on Lake Superior. It’s one of the region’s most popular shipwreck tales, in large part thanks to Gordon Lightfoot’s haunting ...

ALPENA, MI – Advanced navigational equipment didn’t prevent this ocean-going freighter from colliding with another ship and sinking into Lake Huron in 1959. Liberian-registered Monrovia sank on June ...

Modern day freighters are massive - the Edmund Fitzgerald stood more than 700 feet long and weighed over 13,000 tons. Today’s ships are designed off the back of generations of shipping on these inland ...

The SS Alpena, the oldest working freighter on Michigan's Great Lakes, is back on course for another shipping season. As of 9:30 a.m. on Aug. 28, the ship was en route from Cleveland, Ohio, and was on ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A freighter was on its way to Canada on Sunday after it was freed from ice that trapped it in a frozen Lake Erie for days, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The Manitoulin, a 663-foot ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — It will be at least another day mired about a mile off shore from Buffalo for the crew of the Great Lakes freighter Manitoulin, which became stuck in ice after leaving the Queen City ...