The Earth can still surprise you. That's because almost 60% of it remains unexplored, thanks to the vast oceans that cover the globe. Dip beneath the surface, and another world unfolds, often with ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — In terms of Great Lakes shipwrecks, the Edmund Fitzgerald gets a lot of attention. The mystery of it tied to a hit song has made it the figurative main character in a long ...

The cook fell ill and was tied to the mast of the sinking ship. But when the crew abandoned the ship, they left Lydia Dale ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... This month marks the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior. After enduring hurricane-force winds and waves of ...

Plato’s legend of Atlantis has come to life once again, with archaeologists from the Russian Academy of Sciences having just discovered “traces of a submerged city” destroyed by a devastating ...

Snow is expected is expected statewide this weekend across much of Michigan, including Detroit, Grand Rapids, northern Michigan and the Upper Peninsula — much of it blamed on lake effect. "Our first ...

SHEBOYGAN – A cruise line traveling around Lake Michigan next summer will stop in Sheboygan along the way. American Cruise Lines’ American Patriot cruise ship, built in 2025, will stop in the city ...

NEW BUFFALO, MI — Remains found along the Lake Michigan shoreline have been identified decades later, the Michigan State Police said. A woman known for decades as “New Buffalo Jane Doe” has been ...

News 8 is producing a series of stories that will be published in the days leading up to Nov. 10, the 50th anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. It will culminate with a WOOD TV+ special ...

ST. MARTIN PARISH, La. (KLFY) — The Henderson Lake Control Structure in St. Martin Parish is set to receive major upgrades for the first time in decades, aimed at protecting nearby communities and ...

Outside of the 2020 season impacted by COVID-19, this marks the first time since George W. Bush's presidency that Penn State and Michigan State are meeting with neither ranked. Unless, of course, you ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Few ships in Great Lakes history are as legendary as the Edmund Fitzgerald, especially across Northern Ohio, which was home to nearly half the 29 seamen who went down with the lake ...