The 17-member crew of the freighter, stuck a mile off the Buffalo shore, was never in serious danger, but its predicament drew news media attention and a crowd of curious onlookers.

As the ice continues to develop on Lake Erie and other waterways in the area, some of you may be planning to have some fun this weekend. But, whether it’s ice skating, ice fishing, or pond hockey, you ...

[Attached video shows previous Fox 8 coverage of an ice rescue on Lake Erie] CATAWBA ISLAND ... The reports indicated that off the northwest tip of Catawba Island, a fisherman had partially ...

The Manitoulin, a 663-foot (202-meter) Canadian vessel with 17 people on board, got stuck in the ice on Lake Erie on Wednesday after it dropped off a load of wheat in Buffalo, New York ...

Lake Erie is more than half covered by ice, thanks to our frigid snap. The Great Lake was almost entirely liquid on Jan. 4, when temperatures began dropping. By Jan. 8, the surface of the western ...

Regardless, Ottawa County Sheriff Steve Levorchick says he has noticed how popular things are off-shore right now ... said of people out on the ice covering Lake Erie. One of them was Sammy ...

"So the eastern end of Lake Erie there is kind of covered ... an exact thickness level for ice on Presque Isle Bay. FishErie.com reported 9 inches of thickness off the foot of Chestnut Street ...

Ice coverage for all of the Great Lakes combined was 23.21% – the highest since February 26, 2022, when it was 56.1%. At the beginning of this month, ice coverage was less than 2% across all the lakes ...

It’s a common conversation among longtime Western New York residents: The winters around here aren’t like they used to be. It’s not nostalgia: New research indicates that winters are getting ...