Successful management of the Great Lakes Saint Lawrence Seaway is a complex enterprise, involving close collaboration between the U.S. and Canadian Coast Guards. A long-standing cooperative ice ...

Elon Musk and President Donald Trump's threat of cuts to NOAA could have harmful effects on Wisconsin's Great Lakes.

Freighters in the Great Lakes often encounter surface ice in ... arrived on the scene Saturday. The Canadian Coast Guard Ship Samuel Risley is also on-scene conducting ice breaking operations ...

LAKE ERIE - A day after a U.S. Coast Guard cutter arrived to break a cargo-hauling freighter free from the snow and ice that encased it, the 663-foot Manitoulin remained stuck late Friday.

The ice coverage in Lake Erie has rapidly expanded to 80% this week. February and March are peak maximum ice coverage periods for the Great Lakes.

But there are some ships that still move around on the Great Lakes, and they couldn't do it without help from the Canadian Coast Guard. The ship's captain, Stacey Trombley, explains how it all works.

After nearly a week of freezing temperatures — below zero on several days — the Great Lakes ... the Canadian freighter Manitoulin became stuck near Buffalo, New York, and U.S. Coast Guard ...

The Great Lakes Oil Spill Center of Expertise (GLCOE) recently announced nine studies related to oil spills that will be carried out in 2025.

The U.S. Coast Guard has a cooperative arrangement, dubbed “Operation Coal Shovel,” with its Canadian counterpart to conduct ice-breaking on the Great Lakes. At the request of the U.S. Coast ...