This year’s winter has been a breath of fresh air for ice fishing enthusiasts and businesses around Lake Erie.

Lake Erie, the shallowest of the five Great Lakes, last froze over in 1996. With ice covering more than 95% of the lake on Thursday, and continued winter weather in the forecast, could the ...

Lake-effect ... in parts of Erie and Ashtabula (Ohio) counties after Thanksgiving, from Nov. 29 through Dec. 3. The smallest in volume and shallowest of the Great Lakes can be expected to ...