One of the most popular and luxurious passenger steamers of its day has been found in Lake Michigan's deep waters, more than 150 years after it went down stern first about 20 miles off Racine, Wisc.

Researchers have discovered the wreck of a luxury steamer ship that sank in Lake Michigan in 1872, they announced Friday. Shipwreck World, a group that works to locate shipwrecks around the globe, ...

Pioneer Illinois shipwreck hunter Paul Ehorn has discovered of one of Lake Michigan’s most sought-after missing ships, the passenger steamer Lac La Belle. The ship had been missing in the depths of ...

The wreck of a luxury steamer that sank in a Lake Michigan gale nearly 150 years ago has been discovered, searchers announced last week, completing a quest that began nearly 60 years ago. Shipwreck ...

This image of an original photo print provided by Brendon Baillod shows the Lac La Belle docked at Marquette, Mich., in 1866. (Brendon Baillod via AP) (Brendon Baillod, Brendon Baillod) MADISON, Wis. ...

MILWAUKEE — One of the most popular and luxurious passenger steamers of its day has been found in Lake Michigan's deep waters, searchers announced last week, more than 150 years after it sank ...

Thursday afternoon, a Madison-based environmental law firm filed an appeal to Milwaukee Circuit Court on behalf of Paul Florsheim. Florsheim is the Shorewood resident who last summer received a ...

Back in 2014, singer-songwriter Lee Murdock released a song that asked the question: “What about the water?” The song is about the pollution in Lake Erie in the 1960s and ’70s. At that time, headlines ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Every morning, no matter the temperature, the man now known as "The Great Lake Jumper" takes a dip in Lake Michigan. Obviously, jumping in on a dangerously cold day like Friday is not ...

Parts of Lake Michigan are freezing over as a polar vortex begins to sweep across the United States, bringing frigid temperatures to most of the country. A new video shows the effect of those frigid ...

MANISTEE, MI – A historic ship moored in Northern Michigan could soon be on the move and out of the water. Plans are in motion to take the S.S. City of Milwaukee, which docks on Manistee Lake, to ...

In her ruling Wednesday, Shorewood Municipal Judge Margo Kirchner said, “I grant judgment for the Village of Shorewood and find Florsheim guilty on the citation for trespassing. I impose the ...