This week's Trending Up looks at the unlikely revival of the five-decade-old story song, as well as a curious new dance smash ...

On Nov. 10, 1975, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sunk in the Great Lakes, inspiring Gordon Lightfoot to write a hit song called 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.' ...

STURGEON BAY (WLUK) -- It's been 50 years since the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald in the Canadian waters of Lake Superior, taking its crew of 29 with her. The cargo ship's home port was ...

“The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down, of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee” - From “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” First come the mournful notes - an electric guitar layered over a ...

Record Store Day's Black Friday is, as usual, filled with exclusive and limited edition releases, mostly on vinyl, from some ...

Fifty years after its sinking on Lake Superior, the iron-ore ship remains a fascination among guys. There’s good reason for that.

As part of the bill to end the government shutdown, lawmakers included a federal ban on intoxicating hemp products, which ...

To combat the alleged illegal actions of United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in the rounding up of immigrants in Chicago, former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and a group of ...

"We’re not gone until the last person who remembered us is gone, and my hope is that we never live in a world in which no one remembers the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," said author John U. Bacon.

The Edmund Fitzgerald remains a part of the regional memory. Gordon Lightfoot’s ballad, “The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald,” ...

Monday, November 10, 2025, will mark 50 years since 29 mariners lost their lives aboard the Edmund Fitzgerald in what would become one of the most famous American wrecks of all time. Join us Monday at ...

Gordon Lightfoot and his band recorded the "little ditty" in a Toronto studio in December 1975, just weeks after the ...