The Apostle Islands National Lakeshore consists of 21 islands spread over nearly 290,000 acres of Lake Superior off the ...

Explorers have discovered the sunken wreckage of one of the first steel cargo ships to travel the Great Lakes.

In 1892, a gale overtook the ship Western Reserve, causing it to sink within a matter of minutes with only one of the 28 ...

The Western Reserve, a 300-foot steel steamer, broke in two as it wrecked in 1892 about 60 miles northwest of Whitefish Point ...

The wreckage site of the 300-foot steel steamer ‘Western Reserve’ has been found, according to a Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum ...

After 132 years, the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society recently announced that it discovered the shipwreck around 60 ...

Every shipwreck has its own story, but some are just that much more tragic,” the executive director of the Great Lakes ...

For decades, the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians has been working to rehabilitate the lake sturgeon population in the area. Corey Jerome, Little River Band fisheries biologist, detailed the ...

Although the Western Reserve was found in Lake Superior, estimates suggest there are more than 1,700 ships resting just in Lake Michigan.