The Latest Breaking News from Lake Superior

Our pilot stood on the roof of the yellow submarine named John, floating beside a Lake Superior islet where cliffs rise straight from the water and end in a shock of pines.

ASHLAND, Min.. — Drones will be patrolling Lake Superior for the next few weeks — some underwater, some on the surface — trying to document how many little fish live in the big lake.

CHICAGO — As ice coverage across the Great Lakes falls from winter highs with spring and summer warming ahead, Lake Michigan is likely to end up with a just-below-average season.

MUNISING, Mich. — Along the eastern shore of Lake Superior's Grand Island, giant icicles drip from the cliffs like fangs, a fitting reminder that winter in the Upper Peninsula has a bite.

ON THE GUNFLINT TRAIL – The recent cold that enveloped Minnesota's northern border bottomed out at 37 below zero, a temperature that would test the mettle of Pete Harris' blaze orange deer-hunting outfit. Fortunately, a heat wave had moved in and as we slid Pete's snowmobile off its trailer, the…

WHITEFISH POINT, Mich. — Explorers have found the wreckage of a schooner-barge that sank in a Lake Superior gale more than 130 years ago.

The Atlanta was carrying a load of coal when a storm sank it on 4 May, 1891

DULUTH, Minn. — Scientists from across the Great Lakes region know a lot about the water in summer, when they can go out in boats and conduct research under a warm sun.

DULUTH, Minn. — The mayor of Two Harbors wants to build an underwater hotel in Lake Superior, and the Minnesota Attorney General's Office is being asked to decide whether he has made any unethical moves while promoting the idea with the help of an anonymous self-proclaimed billionaire.