for the largest cruise ship on the Great Lakes. (However, they are several hundred feet smaller than many freighters on the lakes, which can exceed 1,000 feet.) Viking Octantis made its Great ...

The ship Victory II was christened Monday morning at Navy Pier. It's a smaller, higher-end cruise ship, geared toward adults ...

The new lock at the Soo Locks in Sault Ste. Marie is in the third phase of construction. The megaproject is over budget and ...

DULUTH — The Trump administration’s new trade rules aimed at penalizing operators of Chinese-built ships and boosting domestic shipbuilding appear to have spared the Great Lakes shipping ...

Victory Cruise Lines has returned to the Great Lakes under new ownership, with a revived Victory I and II overseen by John ...

Decades of industrial pollution on Lake Superior has seen stretches of its shore deemed areas of environmental concern for both Canada and the U.S. A massive investment of time and money is letting ...

In addition to Illinois, cruisers can also visit Wright sites in another Great Lakes state, Michigan. From the Muskegon port of call, one excursion visits the Meyer May House in Grand Rapids, a ...

One of the world’s great rivers, the mighty Mississippi is storied in American culture, history and identity. It’s where ...

The biggest cruise ship on the Great Lakes floated under the Hoan Bridge ... Viking Cruises‘ Octantis, a 665-foot-long, Seaway-max-sized ship, backed into the inner harbor with dozens of ...

At this point in the season, only the Poe Lock, which handles the largest Great Lakes freighters and the ... bunch up in the lock and not allow the ship to fully enter the locking system.