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Snowmobiles will stay parked in sheds and it's hit or miss for cross-country skiers as a warm front pushing into Wisconsin is expected to send the mercury soaring into the 40s and 50s through the weekend. More...
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If water levels on Lake Michigan continue to drop, the Chicago River could reverse itself and send untreated sewage into Lake Michigan. More...
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Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources issued Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District the nation's first wastewater discharge permit mandating "green infrastructure" to collect and absorb storm water. More...
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A group opposed to burying nuclear waste near Lake Huron is taking its fight to the country's biggest energy users: Toronto commuters. More...
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Ontario has issued a 23-thousand dollar grant to The Port Franks Community Phragmites Control Project to control and hopefully eliminate the common reed that grows near the Lake Huron shore. More...
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Shipments of coal on the Great Lakes totaled 25,347,709 tons in 2012, a decrease of 8.2 percent compared to 2011. More...
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A specialty television network has named Agate Beach on the north shore of Lake Superior one of the best natural beaches in the world. More...
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Baby fish exposed to hormone-laden manure from Indiana farms were much more likely to be male than those raised in uncontaminated water, according to new research. More...
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The annual head count of young-of-the-year walleye and perch showed the walleye hatch in Ohio's portion of the western end of the lake was below average. More...
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The commercial shipping industry is fighting to stay alive as Lake Michigan continues to drop to record lows. More...
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In the waning days of the 112th Congress, the Senate approved a bill that protects more than 35,000 acres of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. More...
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Two water pipes for the Lake Huron Primary Water Supply System that serve water to over 500,000 Londoners and surrounding areas are in need of desperate repair. More...
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The committee organizing events around the Bassmaster Elite Series tournament expects the event this year could have an economic impact on the St. Lawrence River Valley of $1.5 million to $2 million. More...
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An environmental group that studied noise produced by wind turbines dismissed a state representative's claim that "dangerous levels" of low-frequency noise were found at Shirley Wind Farm. More...
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Marquette, Mich., will play host this summer to a major conference orchestrated by a regional coalition of cities with ties to the Great Lakes. More...
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Between 1957 and 1962, an estimated 1,457 industrial steel drums were trucked from a Honeywell weapons plant in the Twin Cities to Duluth and secretly dumped off barges into Lake Superior. More...
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The Coast Guard began icebreaking operations on the lower Great Lakes Thursday, providing another sign that this year's winter won't be as mild as last year's. More...
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The Perry nuclear power plant alongside Lake Erie in northeast Ohio can expect continued heightened scrutiny by federal regulators this year. More...
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Chinook salmon stocking cuts will be spread evenly among traditional Lake Michigan sites in 2013, with each taking a 35% reduction, according to a decision released Friday by the Department of Natural Resources. More...
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Salmon spawning successfully in Michigan and Ontario tributaries are providing a real boost to Wisconsin's Chinook sport fishery -- and have been for more than a decade. More...
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The rapidly changing ecology of the Great Lakes Basin, brought on in large part by non-native, invasive species, is causing devastation among Michigan's waterfowl, especially common loons. More...
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Departing U.S. Environmental Protection Agency head Lisa Jackson did well by the Great Lakes region, but her successor will need to move Congress closer to meaningful legislation on climate change among other things. More...
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John Kasich, Ohio's governor, says sewage dumped into the water at Detroit is causing big problems for Lake Erie. The biggest threat to the health of the lake has come from toxic blue green algae which has appeared in recent years. More...
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The University of Michigan will host dozens of Great Lakes researchers, advocates and policymakers this Wednesday for a meeting of the Great Lakes Futures Project. More...
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It's time to do a comprehensive study that will tell us how much the falling lake level is due to natural cycles or whether we have lost water that is never coming back because of human activities. We also need to know what, if anything, we should do to restore water to Lake Michigan. More...