Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

UNCOVERED: 2 - Caught on Camera

Minnesota photographer Craig Blacklock makes waves with abstract images of Lake Superior

Craig Blacklock, one of Minnesota's best-known nature photographers, goes abstract in his latest book on Lake Superior.

Tribune News Service

Lake Superior cisco population may be rebounding

DULUTH, Minn. — The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Lake Superior fisheries team got some good news when they were out trawling on the big lake in October: The number of small cisco — commonly called herring by folks along the North Shore — were way up.

Tribune News Service

Isle Royale considers how to manage busy campgrounds at iconic national park

DETROIT — The campgrounds at Isle Royale National Park can get so crowded campers have to share sites with strangers, trek further into the wilderness to pitch their tent or pile into designated "overflow" sites with other visitors to the prized island park in Lake Superior.

Tribune News Service

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

A trip to coastal Maine brings to mind Lake Superior's North Shore — to an extent

Overheard while boarding the flight home from Portland to Minneapolis:

Tribune News Service

Dennis Anderson: Special group, including Bud Grant, helped launch Pheasants Forever 40 years ago

DULUTH, Min. – This northern Minnesota city never looks better than when viewed from a boat on Lake Superior, preferably while fishing. This is particularly true at dawn, when the rising sun basks Duluth in a low-angled glow that ascends its steep hillsides gradually, in luminous panels.

Tribune News Service

With its new ship Octantis and expeditions among the Great Lakes, Viking aims to get cruising down to a science

Our pilot stood on the roof of the yellow submarine named John, floating beside a Lake Superior islet where cliffs rise straight from the water and end in a shock of pines.

Tribune News Service

Underwater and on the surface, drones study Lake Superior's small fish

ASHLAND, Min.. — Drones will be patrolling Lake Superior for the next few weeks — some underwater, some on the surface — trying to document how many little fish live in the big lake.

Tribune News Service

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

St. Louis River anglers wonder where the big walleyes have gone

ON THE ST. LOUIS RIVER — Chris Edquist grabbed the fishing rod out of the holder and pulled back just enough to see how big the bend was.

Tribune News Service

Survey: St. Louis River Estuary walleye population is up

DULUTH, Minn. — The walleye population in the St. Louis River Estuary, roaming between the Fond du Lac dam on the river and sometimes far out into Lake Superior, is strong and growing.

Tribune News Service

Minnesota warden Keith Olson retiring after 34 years on Lake Superior

DULUTH, Minn. — Keith Olson was piloting the 27-foot Department of Natural Resources patrol boat through the Duluth Ship Canal, close to the north pier, back into the harbor after a couple hours of checking Lake Superior anglers.

Tribune News Service

Pretty in pink: Beach stands out from gray rocks along Superior's North Shore

MINNEAPOLIS — In the Land of 10,000 Lakes, one beach in northern Minnesota stands out. While most of Lake Superior's iconic shoreline is gray rock, this stretch is a surprising pink.

Tribune News Service

With the arrival of spring temps, ice coverage on Lake Michigan is likely to end up just below average this season

CHICAGO — As ice coverage across the Great Lakes falls from winter highs with spring and summer warming ahead, Lake Michigan is likely to end up with a just-below-average season.

Chicago Tribune

A Michigan marvel: Grand Island's ice caves reveal brutal beauty

MUNISING, Mich. — Along the eastern shore of Lake Superior's Grand Island, giant icicles drip from the cliffs like fangs, a fitting reminder that winter in the Upper Peninsula has a bite.

Tribune News Service

Dennis Anderson: A venture off the Gunflint Trail leads, through snow and over thick ice, to lake trout

ON THE GUNFLINT TRAIL – The recent cold that enveloped Minnesota's northern border bottomed out at 37 below zero, a temperature that would test the mettle of Pete Harris' blaze orange deer-hunting outfit. Fortunately, a heat wave had moved in and as we slid Pete's snowmobile off its trailer, the…

Tribune News Service

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Tribune News Service

Shipwreck hunters find wreck claimed by Lake Superior in 1891

WHITEFISH POINT, Mich. — Explorers have found the wreckage of a schooner-barge that sank in a Lake Superior gale more than 130 years ago.

The Independent UK

Shipwreck found in Lake Superior – after 131 years

The Atlanta was carrying a load of coal when a storm sank it on 4 May, 1891

Tribune News Service

Great Lakes scientists dive into winter research

DULUTH, Minn. — Scientists from across the Great Lakes region know a lot about the water in summer, when they can go out in boats and conduct research under a warm sun.

Tribune News Service

An underwater hotel on Lake Superior? The idea is raising eyebrows in Minnesota shore town

DULUTH, Minn. — The mayor of Two Harbors wants to build an underwater hotel in Lake Superior, and the Minnesota Attorney General's Office is being asked to decide whether he has made any unethical moves while promoting the idea with the help of an anonymous self-proclaimed billionaire.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

1 2

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Wisconsin

1,083 stories

University of Michigan

National Park Service

Department of Natural Resources

29 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.