The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway opened 50 years ago this month, heralded as an economic bonanza that would open the Great Lakes to 80 percent of the world's merchant shipping fleet. A half century ...

Ana Williams-BergenNorth Country at Work: How the St. Lawrence Seaway came to be The St. Lawrence Seaway is a big deal. It’s huge, just physically, and it took a tremendous amount of work to create.

MASSENA, N.Y. -- Authorities say a cruise ship has crashed into a wall in a lock on the St. Lawrence Seaway in upstate New York, injuring 17 people and forcing the draining of the lock. The U.S. Coast ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A strike has shut down all shipping on the St. Lawrence Seaway, interrupting exports of grain and other goods from Canada and the United States via the Great Lakes to the rest of ...

The St. Lawrence Seaway is undergoing ice-clearing activities.