Lake Superior

A team from Michigan Technological University has been searching since 2024 for a National Center for Atmospheric Research aircraft that crashed in Lake Superior in 1968. While the search has come up unsuccessful, they've been able to map 45 square miles of previously unknown lakebed.

A $2 billion cleanup in Lake Superior to address pollution from historical copper mining is still in the works.

In 1968, a plane carrying three people went missing in Lake Superior. On Thursday, an unmanned autonomous surface vessel was deployed in Houghton on a search to find it.

The federal agency says it won’t get involved in cleaning up a contaminated site in the eastern upper peninsula that borders Lake Superior.

Health department officials suggest limiting the amount of Rainbow Smelt you eat from Lake Superior to one serving a month.These little fish are popular…

Water levels on the Great Lakes have broken high-water records in recent months. But four of the five lakes now appear to be on the decline.With the…

A new contaminant is threatening Lake Superior. Microplastics … which include plastic fragments under five millimeters … have been discovered in the…

All of the Great Lakes are projected to have higher than average water levels over the next several months, with Lakes Superior and Erie expected to break…

Water levels in the Great Lakes are on track to be the highest they’ve been in over 30 years.The Army Corps of Engineers says if their projections hold,…

Ice coverage of Lake Superior could be on track to match historic records.The most recent year that had comparable ice coverage was 2015 at roughly 80…