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In terms of popular fascination, few shipwrecks compare to the foundering of the Edmund Fitzgerald in a 1975 Lake Superior storm, with the loss of its entire 29-person crew. The […]
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First lit in 1901, the red-roofed, south light house in the Duluth Canal has stood longer than the lift bridge itself. It has now been acquired by the Lake Superior […]
While docked after studying algae blooms in lakes Erie and Superior, the crew of the Great Lakes research vessel Blue Heron noticed a black, tar-like substance oozing from the rudder […]
On the third Sunday of July, the community in Superior, Wisconsin, shows its appreciation for the great lake with Lake Superior Day. Read the full story by WDIO-TV – Duluth, […]
For the first time in six years, the iconic light from the Two Harbors Lighthouse beacon 25 miles northeast of Duluth will once again sweep across Lake Superior. Read the […]
‘Ship goo’ was found oozing out of a University of Minnesota Duluth research vessel’s rudder shaft. DNA sequencing revealed it was a previously unknown microbe species. It seems to thrive […]
The Duluth City Council will be considering a resolution requesting federal officials to keep the U.S. EPA’s Great Lakes Toxicology and Ecology Division lab in Duluth, Minnesota, open. About 150 […]
The Trump administration’s new trade rules aimed at penalizing operators of Chinese-built ships and boosting domestic shipbuilding appear to have spared the Great Lakes shipping industry from fees on ships […]
The Federal Nagara was the first ocean-going vessel to transit the full St. Lawrence Seaway originating from Germany and stopping in Contrecoeur, Quebec, before continuing to Duluth, Minnesota. Read the […]
Anxieties are mounting that a water pollution laboratory buttressing Lake Superior’s North Shore is slated to be closed, potentially terminating work for dozens of scientists and shuttering an economic engine […]
As the executive director of the Western Lake Superior Sanitary District (WLSSD) prepares to leave her post, the WLSSD fired up a trio of generators that now convert biogas from […]