SAULT STE. MARIE — Hundreds of people filled Soo Locks Park to watch the first freighter of the season use the locks. One woman made the trip from Holland, Michigan to watch. “It’s like everybody ...

The Soo Locks is set to open tonight, kicking off the 2024 shipping season on the upper Great Lakes. And there won’t be any last-minute guessing about which freighter will be the first ship through ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The Soo Locks are open for the season. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced that the Joseph L. Block was the first ship through the Poe Lock on Friday evening, ...

SAULT STE. MARIE — The Great Lakes shipping season will begin a little sooner than expected with the Poe Lock opening on March 21. The Poe Lock, the larger of the two currently operational locks, was ...

The massive freighters that ply the Great Lakes are back at work following the early reopening of the Soo Locks for the 2025-26 season, and they're doing it all under the watchful eyes of webcams that ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, MI - It may have hit 80 degrees downstate today, but it looked like winter in parts of the Upper Peninsula. An ice buildup in the Soo Locks caused an eight-hour delay for some big ...