This is the dramatic moment ice breakers rescued a stranded vessel on a frozen Lake Erie in New York. The motor vessel ...

The U.S. military is working to release a 660-foot Canadian freighter that got trapped in the thick ice on Lake Erie earlier this week. Seventeen people are aboard the Manitoulin, which initially ...

A big Canadian freighter with a crew of 17 on board has become trapped in the fast-expanding ice covering Lake Erie. The Manitoulin, a 663-foot vessel, remained stuck just offshore of Buffalo ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- 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 lake freighter Manitoulin is immobilized by thick ice in Lake Erie outside the Buffalo River breakwall as it awaits the arrival of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bristol Bay which is en route from ...

A Canadian Freighter Gets Trapped in Ice on Lake Erie BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A Canadian freighter with 17 people on board got stuck in the ice on Lake Erie while departing Buffalo, according to ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A freighter was on its way 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 ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A lake freighter ship that was stuck in the ice in the Lake Erie shoreline in the Buffalo River since Wednesday was freed Saturday afternoon, the U.S. Coast Guard announced.

Due to a recent cold snap, ice coverage on the Great Lakes is significantly higher than last year. Lake Erie is almost entirely frozen over, with ice coverage at 85%. The other Great Lakes have ...

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.