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

The U.S. Coast Guard says a freighter is on the move after it was freed from ice that trapped it in frozen Lake Erie for days ...

The ice coverage in Lake Erie has rapidly expanded to 80% this week. February and March are peak maximum ice coverage periods ...

The U.S. and Canadian Coast Guards are continuing efforts to break up ice and free a freighter that has been trapped in a ...

Lake effect snow is dependent on the Great Lakes water temperature and how much of the lake is frozen. But what does the ...

The arctic air blast that brought below zero temperatures to the Valley has had a massive impact on the ice coverage on Lake Erie.

As of Jan. 20, 38.42% of Lake Erie's surface was covered in ice of some form (most of it thin and slushy). On Tuesday, the ice coverage had expanded to 58.16%, a whopping 1,900 square miles of ice ...

UTICA, N.Y. -- With the recent arctic weather here in the Mohawk Valley, some Great Lakes are finally beginning to freeze. This event typically happens in most winters, but sometimes, if average ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The U.S. and Canadian Coast Guards on Saturday continued efforts to break up ice and free a freighter that has been trapped in a frozen Lake Erie for days, officials said.

Beautiful sunrise over foggy meaodw ... to Canada on Sunday after it was freed from ice that trapped it in a frozen Lake Erie for days, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The Manitoulin, a 663-foot ...

(Derek Gee/The Buffalo News via AP) FILE - Michele King, 26, looks out over frozen Lake Erie, Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak, File) U.S. Coast Guard Air Station ...