Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 1,004-foot-long American Spirit was the last Great Lakes freighter to traverse the Soo Locks for the 2025-26 shipping season ...

The M/V Herbert C. Jackson made her final trip through the Soo Locks for the 2025/2026 shipping season January 13.

January, it's not long before the Great Lakes' largest ships dock for the season. Here's where to find them until March.

CHIPPEWA COUNTY, Mich. (WPBN/WGTU) -- The U.S Army Corps of Engineers is explaining the impact blasting will have on the Chippewa County community. The blasting will take place starting late July as ...

Rendering above depicts how the Soo Locks will look once the New Lock at the Soo is complete in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. The new lock will be built in the footprint of the Sabin Lock, which is being ...

While ice is expanding on the Great Lakes, the Soo Locks remain open for shipping for a few more days in 2026. The locks will remain open until Jan. 15, or until commercial traffic comes to an end. In ...

The locks will close until March 25 when the spring shipping season begins. The MacArthur Lock is scheduled to reopen in late April 2026. In 2025, the last ship through the locks was the American ...