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.

Freighter remains stuck in Lake Erie ice as crews rush to free vessel with 17 aboard - There are 17 people stuck on the vessel ...

If President Donald Trump's threat to tariff Canadian imports by 25% goes forward, 200 years of peaceful and profitable Great Lakes maritime trade will be at risk.

Freighters in the Great Lakes often encounter surface ice in ... officials said a second ship arrived to help free the freighter. The Canadian Coast Guard also had a ship assisting with the ...

(CBS DETROIT) - The Coast Guard's ice breakers have started working in the waters of the Great Lakes, in an effort to keep commercial shipping channels open. The Coast Guard's Operation Taconite ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A Canadian freighter with 17 people on board got stuck in the ice on Lake Erie while departing Buffalo, according to the Coast Guard, which arrived with icebreaking equipment ...

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

Freighters in the Great Lakes often encounter surface ice in ... a second ship arrived to help free the freighter. The Canadian Coast Guard also has a ship assisting with the effort.

There also have been other ice rescue calls handled by Coast Guard boat crews, the Great Lakes public information office related. "No ice is safe ice," the Coast Guard said. Paula Wethington is a ...

After nearly a week of freezing temperatures — below zero on several days — the Great Lakes ... the Canadian freighter Manitoulin became stuck near Buffalo, New York, and U.S. Coast Guard ...