lake superior

Lake Superior is cold, deep and clear. But it’s no longer the clearest of the Great Lakes.Lakes Michigan and Huron have gotten clearer, bumping Lake…

An Upper Peninsula nonprofit group has received a federal grant for a "green infrastructure" project intended to protect Lake Superior waters near…

If you’re in the U.P. this summer, you can give back to Lake Superior.There’s a new project called the Lake Superior Volunteer Corps.Emily Goodman is with…

It was near midnight in early May of 1884 when the J.S. Seaverns went down off the north shore of Lake Superior. The ship had run against some rocks on…

Lake Superior State University’s annual list of "banned words and phrases" is heavy with contributions linked to the 2016 presidential campaign. LSSU has…

What would it be like to have a long, useful live, but only be remembered by the way you die?Such is the case with the Edmund Fitzgerald, which sank in a…

I had a friend I never met in person.His name was Mike Simonson and he was a reporter for Wisconsin Public Radio based in Superior.Mike and I spoke often…

There are just three wolves left on Isle Royale in Lake Superior. And researchers estimate there are 1,250 moose. The National Park Service is deciding…

Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface area, and it has something the other Great Lakes don’t — stable populations of mostly…

Before the ice melts, let's take time to celebrate one of winter's great gifts: the sea caves at Apostle Islands National Lakeshore.Eighteen miles west of…