Executive Director Bruce Lynn discussed the story of the Western Reserve, a steel freight steamer that sank in Lake Superior ...

Growing up in Door County, Matthew Olson often asked his uncle to take him out on the waters of Green Bay and Lake Michigan ...

Several Great Lakes historians discuss the reasons why severe weather on the Great Lakes makes ships more vulnerable than on the ocean Included are details of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald ...

Geo Rutherford describes herself as a “morbid pessimist.” She gets excited when she finds evidence of things that have gone ...

In Wisconsin's part of the lake, around 780 shipwrecks exist, but only 250 have been identified, according to the Wisconsin Historical Society. Efforts to explore the Great Lakes' depths have ...

The Wisconsin Underwater Archeology Association’s 2025 Ghost Ships Festival is set for Friday, Feb. 28 and Saturday, March 1 ...

The Great Lakes region is a major recipient of federal funding to protect and clean up the basin as well as protect its rich history.

The Cabin Fever author series will be kicking off its 2025 season on Wednesday, Feb. 19, with a “Bottled Goodbyes”-themed presentation by Ric Mixter. The event will ...

In Rudyard Township, in the eastern Upper Peninsula, snowy owls make themselves at home in the winter. The township and the Michigan House passed resolutions calling the township the Snowy Owl Capital ...