The Manitoulin, a 663-foot vessel, remained stuck just offshore of Buffalo, New York for the second day on Thursday. An ice-cutting barge, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Bristol Bay, was dispatched earlier today to help free the freighter from the snow and ice field.

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,

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)

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.

A Coast Guard ice-breaking tugboat is on the way and there are no concerns for the well-being of the 17 members of the Manitoulin's crew.

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

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.

That home belonged to New York native Jim Fuetterer and his fiancee Ulli, which they had to leave in a hurried evacuation with only their three dogs last Tuesday night as wind-whipped searing flames from the Eaton fire swept through their community.

New York Sea Grant will partner with the U.S. Coast Guard and the Boating Industries Association of Upstate New York (BIA) to offer boating safety courses and demonstrations as