Renee Passal from sister station WDIO, shows off the huge cutter ship, lovingly named Hollyhock, on Lake Superior.

U.S. and Canadian Coast Guard cutters have been clearing a path through ice-choked Lake Superior to make way for the first 18 vessels of the season, including three lake freighters carrying iron ...

announced that ice-breaking operations - Operation Taconite - began at 8 a.m. Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw (WLBB 30) is assigned to manage the ice-breaking needs of western Lake Superior ...

As ice coverage expands, the Coast Guard will add more cutter crews to work the area. The operation includes Lake Superior, the St. Marys River, the Straits of Mackinac, Georgian Bay, and all of ...

The U.S. Coast Guard began breaking Lake Superior ice here Tuesday to speed ... the lake ice would take weeks to naturally melt, so the USCG Cutter Alder began by breaking ice in the harbor ...

The US Coast Guard released footage of one of its ice-breaker vessels sailing on a foggy Lake Superior to the Aerial Lift Bridge in Duluth, Minnesota, on January 25. Video shared to the US Coast Guard ...

The U.S. Coast Guard has started icebreaking operations on Lake Superior, meaning that people ... lingering on or near shipping channels. The cutter Katmai Bay is being used throughout the Twin ...