A Canadian freighter with 17 people on board got stuck in the ice on Lake Erie while departing Buffalo, according to the Coast Guard, which arrived with icebreaking equipment Thursday to begin freeing the vessel.

The Coast Guard suspended ice-cutting operations for the night after making some progress and moving the ship slightly Thursday evening.

Scott Hunt served his country in the US Coast Guard for an amazing 30 years from 1984 to 2014, retiring as a chief warrant officer. He grew up in Buffalo,

A lake freighter ship is stuck in ice in the Lake Erie shoreline in the Buffalo River. The vessel Manitoulin, which was returning to Michigan after completing a routine

The freighter vessel was delivering rock salt to the Buffalo waterfront before it got stuck in a field of Lake Erie ice.

The new rule is part of a law passed back in 2019, called Brianna's Law, which is named after an 11-year-old Long Island girl who died in a boating accident in 2005.

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 Erie, Penn. to help loosen the vessel, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025. (Derek Gee/The Buffalo News via AP)

WARREN, Ohio (MyValleyTributes) – Walter Francis Gregory, age 93 of Warren, Ohio, passed away on Thursday, January 16, 2025, surrounded by his loving family. Walter was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where as a child was raised in a Catholic orphanage in Buffalo, New York. Decades later he reunited with his three brothers and two sisters.

The results thus far have been marred with criticism and confusion, notably because it appears everyone but Khan saw it coming.

Notre Dame basketball is back on the road this weekend to try this ACC travel thing again after coming up short in its previous trip to Tobacco Road.

NEW YORK (AP) — Mozambique’s former finance minister has ... when he signed off on loans that were supposed to pay for a tuna fishing fleet, a shipyard, Coast Guard vessels and other maritime projects for the southern African country.