Most of Lake Erie and all of St. Clair are now covered with ice. But there are some ships that still move around on the Great Lakes, and they couldn't do it without help from the Canadian Coast Guard.

If President Donald Trump's threat to tariff Canadian imports by 25% goes forward, 200 years of peaceful and profitable Great ...

President Donald Trump is continuing his first-term focus on building a big, new American icebreaker fleet. Days after his ...

A freighter heading to Canada was freed after being stuck in ice on Lake Erie for several days, the U.S. Coast Guard reported ...

The U.S. Coast Guard intensified ice-breaking efforts on January 25 to free the motor vessel Manitoulin, trapped in thick ice ...

When a freighter got trapped in Lake Erie’s thick ice, the U.S. Coast Guard teamed up with Canadian vessels in a mission dubbed “Operation Coal Shovel” to break through the frozen blockade and save ...

Scientists in northwest Ontario say they made a breakthrough in the search for a tool to identify the boundaries of ...

The ice coverage in Lake Erie has rapidly expanded to 80% this week. February and March are peak maximum ice coverage periods ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A Canadian freighter with 17 people on board got stuck in the ice on Lake Erie while departing Buffalo, ...

U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Detroit deploys a helicopter crew to conduct overflights of Canadian vessel Manitoulin trapped ...

The U.S. Coast Guard has requested assistance from the Canadian Coast Guard. CCGS Samuel Risley, a 229-foot icebreaker, is on ...