Dangerous waves and rip currents prompted the National Weather Service to issue the warning in parts of Wisconsin and Minnesota.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with maritime archaeologist Tamara Thomsen about the record number of shipwreck discoveries in the Great Lakes in recent years, including two just in the last several months.

While that doesn't quite hold true, the Great Lakes — and certainly Lake Michigan — have witnessed an estimated 6,000 ...

What was the largest missing shipwreck in the Great Lakes has been found. The S.S. James Carruthers wrecked in Lake Huron during the catastrophic White Hurricane of 1913, which claimed at least 250 ...

Boat captains today have far more information about weather conditions, thanks to buoys and other data sources. Federal funding cuts could jeopardize those safety advances.

Waterspouts swept across the Great Lakes Sunday as a cold front moved into the region from Canada, and the region may see more in the coming days, weather experts say. The Great Lakes had at 25 ...

Discover the eerie tales of Great Lakes shipwrecks and the technology used to uncover the secrets of these underwater graves.

Retreating water levels are exposing stretches of cracked, arsenic-laden lakebed in Utah. Future dust storms will carry an extra hazard. People wade in the waters of the Great Salt Lake at Antelope ...