LAKE SUPERIOR

An avid paddleboarder, Mike Shoreman was told he could never paddleboard again. But he didn’t pay attention to that edict and now is trying to make history.

Residents are up in arms about a proposed spaceport project, the first of its kind in the Midwest, which would involve launching rockets near the shoreline of Lake Superior.

Ice cover is highly variable, but overall there are now fewer days with ice and coverage is decreasing at a rate of about 5% per decade.

The shipwreck group posted photos and video with the name of the ship clearly visible at a depth of more than 600 feet.

Even the gold letters of the ship's nameplate are still visible.

Lake Michigan’s ice cover hit 37% last week and has appeared in the form of pancakes, balls and, in some northern fishing locations, chunks more than a foot thick.

Feb. 4—BLOOMER — Bill Hable was 46 when he embarked on a project intended to fill his retirement with joy. The Bloomer resident, an engineer by trade, planned to build a 41-foot wooden schooner that he could sail on the ocean after retiring at age 62. Hable started by grabbing a chainsaw, cutting down several trees and making the first boards for the massive boat. He figured the project would ...

Today marks the anniversary of the loss of the Edmund Fitzgerald, a 729-foot ore carrier in Lake Superior that was lost in 1975.

Some parts of the Northern Great Lakes region were greeted by their first significant snowfall of the season earlier this week, but not even the arrival of the fluffy white stuff could mask these historic times for the Great Lakes themselves.

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Getting to Marquette, Michigan isn’t the easiest of tasks, given its location in the middle-northern tip of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, right along Lake Superior.

After two weeks of competition between athletes from all over the world, the closing ceremony officially ended the Tokyo Olympics on Aug. 8, 2021.

Dion Dawson’s charity, Dion's Chicago Dream, works to combat food insecurity in his Englewood neighborhood.

Sylvan Lake Dam could get $1.3 million in federal funding aimed at preventing the 100-year-old embankment dam from failing and putting nearby communities at risk.

Chicago Teachers Union members protest outside Chicago Board of Eduction meeting.

St. Agnes of Bohemia Catholic Church, 2651 South Central Park Ave. in Chicago, is celebrating Masses in neighborhood streets through the end of July in an effort to bring the Gospel message of peace and hope to the Little Village neighborhood.

A protest organized by the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization was held near a Target distribution center in a warehouse owned by Hilco Redevelopment Partners.

The planet has been losing 33,000 square miles (87,000 square kilometers) of ice coverage each year since 1979.

Hundreds of young people and Chicago police officers flooded the Loop on the Fourth of July, clashing at times, as fireworks exploded in densely-populated areas and dumpster fires raged.

Coffee, Hip-Hop and Mental Health is Lakeview East's local stop for caffeine for a cause — the two-year-old coffee shop donates their profits to send residents to therapy.

People attend the Grant Park Music Festival on July 2, 2021, at the Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park.

People in Chicago watch fireworks displays during the Fourth of July weekend.

A cliff wall broke away at a national park along Lake Superior in northern Michigan, stunning some boaters who captured it on video. The park's cliffs are 50 feet to 200 feet (15.2 meters to 60.9 meters) above the lake. “We could hear the cliff wall popping and cracking and within 60 seconds a section of cliff approximately 200 feet wide fell before us," Jahn Martin told WLUC-TV.

Williams was transported to Franciscan Health Hammond where she was pronounced dead around 8:15 a.m., according to the Lake County Coroner’s Office.

Lake Superior as a whole is just 10% covered with ice, well below average for this time of year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That allows ice along the shore to suddenly drift toward open water depending on weather and water conditions.

If you’re driving in your car a lot today, don’t be surprised if you hear more Gordon Lightfoot than usual.

The beauty of Lake Superior's ice piles Along the north shore of Lake Superior in Duluth, Minn., massive piles of broken ice lie frozen in sculptural formations.