State Sen. Patty Birkholz was walking along the sugar-sand beach here on Lake Michigan recently when she picked up a handful of dime-size, black-and-white-striped shells clinging together at the ...

wandering "Michigan's Great Lakes: Photographs by Jeff Gaydash" at the Detroit Institute of Arts, up through May 3. This handsome show of large black-and-white images is calming and stirring both ...

So stay with us as we mark this anniversary by looking at what they found, share old photos from the storm, and look at some of the ships lost to this “White Hurricane” of the Great Lakes.

Now you can: A computer code used to visualize wind has been adapted by researchers to show surface currents of the Great Lakes. The code was originally developed to make a map of the wind by ...

As executive director of the Great Lakes Observing System, she’s leading a campaign to map every meter of the lakes’ bottom. The effort, the marine scientist says, will pinpoint hundreds of ...

The Big Blow. The White Hurricane. Freshwater Fury. The Great Lakes storm that spawned all of those nicknames happened from Nov. 7-10, 1913. After it was over, more than a dozen ships and all ...

So stay with us as we mark this anniversary by looking at what they found, photos from the storm, and a look at some of the ships lost to this "White Hurricane" of the Great Lakes. This photo ...