The National Weather Service reports that Lake Erie is roughly 70% frozen over. Ice thickness varies between 2 and 12 inches ...

Sustained cold caused rapid icing on the Great Lakes with the highest total ice cover reported since the historic 56% ice maximum in February 2022. This winter, ice cover peaked at around 25% ...

Using an aerial drone, the sheriff’s office said it found the children’s bodies in a nearby lake, trapped under ice. The Overland Park Fire Department’s dive team recovered the bodies.

Angel Balz said she and others searched for her son, Keagan Grubbs, and his friend, Bowen Owens, both 9, but couldn’t find ...

Now, it’s becoming more common for the lake to have years where less than 40% of it is covered with ice at its peak, the lab’s data show. As of Jan. 30, about 80% of Lake Erie was covered with ...