The 663-foot Manitoulin has been trapped in the ice fields off the shore of Buffalo, New York since Wednesday.

With the Arctic blast at the end of January, the ice coverage on Lake Erie went from nearly 30% to over 80% in just four days ...

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

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - It’s been bitterly cold for a good while now, and that has some ice developing on Lake Erie. Much of the western basin is currently covered but, Lake Erie as a whole is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Just last week, after the big freeze that hit the region the week previously (ice coverage on Lake Erie between Jan. 20 and Jan. 22 doubled), two ice rescues were initiated. Check right here for a ...

The U.S. and Canadian coast guards collaborated to free a large freighter that had been trapped in ice in the midst of Lake Erie for days. It took several icebreaking ships two days to Free the ...

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 ...