When it launched from the Great Lakes Engineering Works in River Rouge, Michigan, in 1958, the Edmund Fitzgerald was the largest ship in the Great Lakes. For roughly a year, the 729-foot vessel was ...

A Lake Superior coal transportation hub that handles million tons of coal annually will end operations in 2026. Midwest ...

DULUTH — Like many other Duluthians, John Crowley was watching Monday Night Football on WDIO-TV when news broke that the Edmund Fitzgerald was missing. "I don't remember who won," remembered Crowley, ...

Sans Gordon Lightfoot and his song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," the Mighty Fitz would likely have disappeared from ...

Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship ...

“The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down, of the big lake they call Gitchee Gumee. The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead when the skies of November turn gloomy.” I would bet my last ...

Duluth-based musician Todd Eckart has been identified as one of the victims of a head-on collision that took place in northwestern Wisconsin on Wednesday. He was 61-years-old. The collision took place ...

After a lovely performance from their upcoming production, two Duluth East students, Bea Martin and Winter Peterson, sat down to talk about Alice by Heart. You might be familiar with the classic Alice ...

Every October the William A. Irving transforms into a floating house of horrors. The shrieks and shrills can be heard all through the Harbor as guest line up for a night of freights. We chatted with ...

A lot of intention went into the Whiteface Reservoir cabin that earned a 2025-26 American Institute of Architects (AIA) Minnesota Star Tribune Home of the Month honor. At first glance, the house, ...

Q: I live on Park Point in Duluth and see large flocks of blue jays return in May each year. They hang around in noisy groups for two to three weeks, then disappear from the Point, without fail. I see ...