"Alexa, add a 7-foot Douglas fir to my shopping cart."Watch out for the 7-foot box on the doorstep this holiday season. No, it won't be from Santa. Amazon plans to sell and ship fresh, full-size ...

Chicago resident, Captain David Truitt, has been serving with the U.S. Coast Guard for 60 years. His entire life, he says, he worked on a rescue boat - the boat he captained. But it wasn't until the ...

CHEBOYGAN — In a long-standing tradition, the U.S. Coast Guard and volunteers helped load Christmas trees destined for Chicago onto an ice cutter in Cheboygan on Tuesday. According to Linda Rogers, of ...

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The U.S. Coast Guard once again has delivered a boat-load of holiday cheer from Northern Michigan to Chicago families while retracing the route of the ill-fated Christmas Tree Ship. By delivering ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Once again, Chicago’s Christmas Ship is ready to bring some holiday spirit from northern Michigan to the Windy City. Over the weekend, volunteers loaded up the U.S. Coast ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) —The annual Christmas Tree Ship voyage from Michigan to Chicago is underway. It’s a tradition that dates to the early 1900s when ships like the Rouse Simmons took fresh-cut ...