The conductors pulled up the steps, the familiar call of “all aboard” was heard and, on a Sunday morning 35 years ago, the ...

All aboard! Michigan’s largest model train show and sale took a pit stop in mid-Michigan for its annual event.  (WLNS) The ...

Two former Midlanders — Joseph and Estelle Bayliss — bequeathed hundreds of shares of Dow Chemical Co. stock to the library ...

Fifty years ago on Nov. 10, 1975, the 729-foot lake freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a severe gale in Lake Superior. All 29 crewmembers were lost. It was the largest ship ever to sink in the ...

When it launched from the Great Lakes Engineering Works in River Rouge, Michigan, in 1958, the Edmund Fitzgerald was the largest ship in the Great Lakes. For roughly a year, the 729-foot vessel was ...

The story of the Edmund Fitzgerald still resonates 50 years after it sank off the coast of the Upper Peninsula's Whitefish ...

Billy Joel memorialized the workers of the steel industry in his 1982 song “Allentown.” While popular culture seems to dwell on tragedy, the ...

The gales of November bent the old box elder tree in our backyard. Little Bay de Noc churned and splashed not far from our house. It is 1975 and Escanaba’s north shore stockpiles tons of iron ore ...

Nolan Church joined the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald as a porter late in life — a new career at age 50 after he was laid off from mining-related work in Silver Bay.

It has been 50 years since one of North America's most infamous maritime disasters—the sinking of the S.S. Edmund Fitzgerald.

It's been 50 years since infamous Great Lakes disaster, immortalized in song by Gordon Lightfoot, yet questions remain ...