Before the gale watch, local news reported on the large waves expected. Specifically, the Detroit Free Press projected, “14- ...

NORTHERN LAKE MICHIGAN - When your lights aren’t working and you are having technical difficulties, you punch in the number of your trusty tech guide or repair person. But when it happens to a pair of ...

Evaporation across the Great Lakes is at its highest point right now. Nowhere is that more apparent than at this lighthouse ...

Ellen Kehoe of Royal Oak has so far visited about 80 lighthouses and climbed to the top of more than 15 of them during sojourns around Michigan’s Great Lakes. That’s more than half of the roughly 130 ...

MARBLEHEAD, Ohio -- Before there was a road, before there was a town – before there was Cedar Point, across the bay – there was a lighthouse, rising from the rock, warning incoming boaters about the ...

The book “Mastering the Inland Seas” (University of Wisconsin Press, $36.95) helps explain the history of Great Lakes lighthouses and navigational aids and the importance of protecting them. ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — The National Museum of the Great Lakes is celebrating Women's History Month a week early. A new virtual lecture series called, 'Ladies of the Light: Michigan Women in the U.S.

A historic lighthouse on Lake Erie that sold at auction will be preserved. That's the promise made by the local magnates in Ohio who bought it. The Cleveland Harbor West Pierhead Lighthouse has been ...

And so, following a chaotic gale watch – a gale-force wind event issued by the National Weather Service – on the Great Lakes, conditions cleaned up. And for a few lucky surfers, who were at the right ...

Therese Langer Woelfel is the author of "Our Guiding Light: Wisdom from the Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter," about her ...

This Great Lakes drive passes through waterfront communities, historic sites, and easy outdoor stops, making it a solid ...