Along with our stretch of very cold weather here in Central New York recently, a unique sight has developed along the Lake Ontario shoreline in Oswego: a series of what appear to look like volcanoes at a glance.

The U.S. Coast Guard has requested assistance from the Canadian Coast Guard. CCGS Samuel Risley, a 229-foot icebreaker, is on its way from Windsor.

Heavy amounts of lake-effect snow have buried several Ontario communities this season, with the open lakes and the frigid cold creating a near-constant snow machine.

A woman who died Sunday after being pulled from a vehicle that drove into Lake Ontario at Ashbridges Bay is being remembered as warm, caring person and hardworking colleague.

Two people were in a vehicle when it entered the water at Ashbridges Bay Park around 9:30 p.m. on Jan. 19, say police.

Plan on changeable wintry conditions for the Rochester region this Friday. Local lake effect snow will develop over Lake Ontario and occasionally bring some accumulations to parts of Rt. 104 and much of Wayne County into the afternoon.

More than a dozen counties are under a state of emergency as areas of upstate New York could receive multiple feet of snow.

Paramedics later confirmed that six people had been taken to hospital and that one of them, a woman, was in critical condition.

An Oakville man has been charged after a vehicle ended up in Lake Ontario last weekend, leaving a woman dead, police say.

Lake Ontario’s low water levels are largely due to the effects of Lake Superior’s poor conditions. The record-low ice cover led to massive evaporation, and droughts left Superior with insufficient recharge (the process that replenishes lakes, thanks to precipitation and surface runoff), impacting all downstream lakes.

Toronto police said the incident happened around 9:30 p.m. on Sunday when they were called to a marine rescue operation at Ashbridges Bay Park Road, near Lake Shore Boulevard East.

The Doug Ford government is pushing for a prospecting rush across northern Ontario, leaving a blanket of mineral claims on land where First Nations are still fighting for title.