Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The 1,004-foot-long American Spirit was the last Great Lakes freighter to traverse the Soo Locks for the 2025-26 shipping season ...

Each year, from late March through mid-January of the next year, hundreds of ships go through Lakes Superior and Huron, up ...

Sault Ste. Marie's annual Engineers Day celebration will feature restricted access to passing freighters due to a federal order. Visitors will not be allowed to walk across the Soo Locks this year, ...

SAULT STE. MARIE — Multiple local, state, tribal, federal and Canadian agencies were at the Soo Locks to run an active shooter drill. The scenario involved a shooter on a Famous Soo Locks Boat Tour ...

They threw open the door and no one has come. That’s the situation Mark Gill finds himself in as the director of vessel traffic at the Soo Locks at Sault Ste. Marie. The locks opened early Tuesday ...

SAULT STE. MARIE, MI - An engineering marvel, the Soo Locks in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is one of the busiest maritime locking systems in the world. Each year, more than 4,500 vessels use the locks.

SAULT STE. MARIE — The Soo Locks in Sault Ste. Marie will close to all marine traffic beginning 11:59 p.m. Jan. 15, or until commercial traffic ceases, through 12:01 a.m. March 25 to perform seasonal ...

The 1,004-foot-long American Spirit was the last Great Lakes freighter to traverse the Soo Locks for the 2025-26 shipping season on Thursday, Jan. 15, as the facility closes for winter maintenance.