Lake Superior

THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO - March 21, 2018 (LSN) Healthy Kids Community Challenge Thunder Bay (HKCC Thunder Bay), launched the Power Off and Play! initiative - the next phase of the HKCC. This phase aims to encourage kids and families to build a balanced day by replacing screen time with more physical activity, ...

Once loaded, the first five ships will head across Lake Superior toward Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., to await the opening of the Soo Locks on Sunday, March 25. The Duluth Seaway Port Authority estimates the Twin Ports could begin seeing its first inbound "lakers" arrive a day later, depending on ice conditions.

CLEVELAND, OHIO March 21, 2018 (LSN) Crews are readying the U.S.-flag Great Lakes fleet for another shipping season. Five dry-bulk vessels have already resumed operation, but the bulk of the fleet will get underway once the locks at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, open on March 25. Last year U.S.-flag lakers hauled 85.7 ...

The Lake Superior Community Theatre is putting on a production of the powerful play 'fences.' Advertisement – Content Continues Below. The August Wilson written play takes place in 1950s Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It follows the every day lives of a working class, low income african-american family.

MUNISING, Mich. (WLUC) – Even though spring is just around the corner in Upper Michigan, Lake Superior Ice Cave Tours is still bringing people out to Grand Island. These tours are available during the day and night and play a major role in Munising's tourism, as they attract people from around the world.

Once loaded, those first five vessels will proceed across Lake Superior toward Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., to await the opening of the Soo Locks at 12:01 a.m. on Sun., March 25. That means the Port of Duluth-Superior could begin seeing its first inbound lakers arriving a day or two later, depending on ice ...

Assisted by a Heritage Marine tug, the Erie Trader/Clyde S. VanEnkevort heads under the Aerial Lift Bridge on its way to Two Harbors to load iron ore Tuesday. The ship was the first of the season to leave Duluth. Bob King / rking@duluthnews.com 2 / 5. The tug Helen H. creates a channel of open water as it ...

THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO March 4, 2018 (LSN) In the Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership race, all four candidates hoping to replace Patrick Brown oppose carbon taxes, a centrepiece of Brown's platform. The federal Conservative Party also opposes carbon taxes. Some commentators see this as a betrayal of ...

Over 100 singers from grade 4,5 and 6, representing schools from all over Northern Minnesota and Wisconsin, joined the Lake Superior Youth Chorus for the celebration. The one day event is designed to give students a memorable experience with music and to provide music teachers a platform to share ...

The Lake Superior School District is facing a bus driver shortage. With a competitive job market and workforce rapidly aging out, district officials are finding fewer people interested in working as bus drivers. (News-Chronicle file photo by Adelle Whitefoot). The Lake Superior School District has more bus ...

Buying land right on Lake Superior was always a dream for leaders of the Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center. The nonprofit north of Silver Bay specializes in hands-on learning, getting K-12 students up close to nature and dirty, whether it's snowshoeing, taking water samples from streams or ...

Pushed around by wind, battered by waves and rotting under a week of warm sunshine, Lake Superior's winter ice is quickly disappearing. ... The Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, which monitors lake ice, says Lake Superior peaked at about 75 percent ice coverage this winter but is now ...

Nancy Langston, author of Sustaining Lake Superior and professor of environmental history at Michigan Technological University, joined Stateside to discuss the uniqueness of the lake, its industrial history, the government's role in protecting and cleaning up the lake, and a vision for the lake's future.

A new invasive species has turned up in Lake Superior, the bloody red shrimp. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says researchers found a single specimen of the tiny shrimp in the Duluth-Superior harbor last summer. There are now documented findings of bloody red shrimp in all of the Great Lakes.