As winter descends on the Great Lakes, the oldest and most historic structures on its shores face a season of peril. Lighthouses were built to withstand brutal ice, waves and wind, but current ...

NORTHERN LAKE MICHIGAN - When your lights aren’t working and you are having technical difficulties, you punch in the number of your trusty tech guide or repair person. But when it happens to a pair of ...

(tranquil music and seagulls crying) - The Marblehead Lighthouse is unique in many ways, but the one thing is the permanence. It has been lit for over 203 years. You don't have a light on Lake Erie, ...

Dianna Stampfler has worked for the tourism industry in Michigan for over 25 years and is the executive director of Promote Michigan, so she's seen almost everything the state of Michigan has to offer ...

State officials recently announced a pair of historic Michigan lighthouses will share more than $100,000 in grant funding for preservation work. The Charlevoix South Pier Lighthouse on Lake Michigan, ...

A small Great Lakes lighthouse has been given to a nonprofit that plans to open it up for public tours – although it only “fits about four people,” officials said. The federal government awarded the ...

(WPBN/WGTU) -- A northern Michigan nonprofit is celebrating two milestones this weekend. The Great Lakes Lighthouse Keepers Association turns 40 this year and it's the 105th anniversary of the ...

A historic lighthouse on Lake Erie that sold at auction will be preserved. That's the promise made by the local magnates in Ohio who bought it. The Cleveland Harbor West Pierhead Lighthouse has been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Great Lakes – a series of interconnected tarns, spanning across the northeast of America and spilling across the Canadian ...

MARBLEHEAD, Ohio -- Before there was a road, before there was a town – before there was Cedar Point, across the bay – there was a lighthouse, rising from the rock, warning incoming boaters about the ...