Before the gale watch, local news reported on the large waves expected. Specifically, the Detroit Free Press projected, “14- ...

As winter descends on the Great Lakes, the oldest and most historic structures on its shores face a season of peril. Lighthouses were built to withstand brutal ice, waves and wind, but current ...

Evaporation across the Great Lakes is at its highest point right now. Nowhere is that more apparent than at this lighthouse ...

LANSING – The book “Mastering the Inland Seas” helps explain the history of Great Lakes lighthouses and navigational aids and the importance of protecting them. Historically, lighthouses, powered by ...

NORTHERN LAKE MICHIGAN - When your lights aren’t working and you are having technical difficulties, you punch in the number of your trusty tech guide or repair person. But when it happens to a pair of ...

Ellen Kehoe of Royal Oak has so far visited about 80 lighthouses and climbed to the top of more than 15 of them during sojourns around Michigan’s Great Lakes. That’s more than half of the roughly 130 ...

Dianna Stampfler has worked for the tourism industry in Michigan for over 25 years and is the executive director of Promote Michigan, so she's seen almost everything the state of Michigan has to offer ...

Combining an intense interest in both true crime and maritime history, Dianna Higgs Stampfler’s latest book, "Death & Lighthouses of the Great Lakes: A History of Misfortune & Murder" (History Press ...

(WPBN/WGTU) -- A northern Michigan nonprofit is celebrating two milestones this weekend. The Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association turns 40 this year and it's the 105th anniversary of the ...

Lighthouses have been a part of the Great Lakes maritime history ever since the early settlers moved westward and into the Upper Great Lakes region of the United States Their light beams have guided ...