Trump signs executive order to rename Lake Ontario "Lake America"
The executive order directs the Interior Department to update the Geographic Names Information System, changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America.
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The executive order directs the Interior Department to update the Geographic Names Information System, changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America.
Scandia Cemetery in Duluth is crumbling into Lake Superior and exposing human remains along the shoreline, St. Louis County officials say. The county is requesting more than $2.5 million from the state to build a concrete retaining wall to stop the erosion and exposure of human remains.
Researchers say that a lake trout recently captured in Lake Superior is believed to be the oldest-known specimen of its species ever caught in the Great Lakes, estimated to be 62 years old.
The Great Lakes mapping effort will pinpoint hundreds of shipwrecks, illuminate topographical features and identify fisheries, a marine scientist said.
Friday marks the start of this year's Great Lakes shipping season with the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway and the Soo Locks in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.
This year, Visit Duluth is letting people guess when the first "saltie" will pass under the Aerial Lift Bridge. Last year, more than 9,000 people entered the contest.
A WWII-era shipwreck was found in over 600 feet of water in Lake Superior, about 35 miles north of the state's Keweenaw Peninsula, the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society announced.
An iconic Minnesota landmark lit up the Lake Superior shoreline Friday night in memory of one of the most infamous shipwrecks in American history.
Forty-eight years ago Friday, hurricane-force winds sunk the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, killing all 29 crew on board.
The power of Lake Superior was too much for two men cliff-jumping on the North Shore this weekend.
The frequently-flooded parking lot became an ironic tourist destination in the Uptown neighborhood of Minneapolis, and a Twin Cities social media phenomenon.
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society just released underwater footage that shows two ships that sank all the way back in 1914 off the Upper Peninsula.
No debris from either object was found, officials said.
Sunday's shootdown marked the third unidentified object to be shot down over the U.S. and Canada in three days.
An old shipwreck has been discovered at the bottom of Lake Superior.
A major storm is bringing up to several feet of lake-effect snow to western New York state. And much of the Midwest is experiencing a severe cold snap. Weather Channel meteorologist Kelly Cass joins "CBS News Mornings" with the latest on the forecast.
Mike Shoreman has a mission to paddle board across all five Great Lakes, a feat that has never been done before, after a diagnosis with Ramsey Hunt syndrome.
Ren Clayton reports on Mike Shoreman, who's trying to become the first person with a disability to paddleboard across all five of the Great Lakes.
Ren Clayton reports on Mike Shoreman, who became the first person with a disability to paddleboard across all five of the Great Lakes.
Researchers have long done such field work at other times of year, assuming not much is happening in the lakes during winter. But they recently concluded that there's more activity than they realized. They say it's urgent to get more information now, as climate change reduces the Great Lakes' ice cover.
Researchers now think more is going on in the bitter depths of the Great Lakes than previously believed — including activity influenced by climate change.
The five inland seas are bursting at the seams during the region's wettest period in more than a century, which scientists say is likely connected to the warming climate.
Around the Great Lakes, beaches have disappeared, docks are submerged and lakeshore is eroding. This summer, Lakes Erie and Ontario reached their highest levels ever recorded – thanks to months of abnormally wet weather – and Lake Superior has set new monthly records.
U.S. states and Canadian provinces in the Great Lakes region are looking for ways to cooperate on preventing Asian carp from reaching Lake Michigan.
A recent report finds around one-third of participating ports in the United States and Canada, including those in Duluth and Milwaukee, are keeping a detailed inventory of greenhouse gas emissions.
