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An expanded pilot program and several hundred thousand dollars in funding are on tap at the Global Water Center in Milwaukee, Wis. More...

Wis. Gov. Scott Walker has given preliminary approval for Waukesha, a community just outside the Great Lakes Basin, to siphon off a large amount of drinking water from Lake Michigan. More...

The city of Toledo, Ohio, reported yesterday that the level of algal toxins near its western Lake Erie water-intake crib have dropped since Wednesday. More...

A new project documents shipwrecks and maritime graves and also provides information about habitat for fish and could prove helpful if development projects involving wind turbines, pipelines or cables in the lake are proposed in the future. More...

An expanded pilot program and several hundred thousand dollars in funding are on tap at Milwaukee's Global Water Center, both unveiled Thursday. More...

Waukesha is just outside the Great Lakes Basin. But under an agreement OK-ed by the eight Great Lakes states and Congress seven years ago, the city of 71,000 is allowed to apply for Great Lakes water. It's the first community to make such a request. More...

Lake Michigan's high winds and waves the last couple days may be an early sign of a four-letter word some may find offensive: fall. More...

The city of Toledo reported yesterday that the level of algal toxins near its western Lake Erie water-intake crib have dropped since Wednesday. More...

The city of Toledo, Ohio, reported on Wednesday that the level of algal toxins near its western Lake Erie water-intake crib were up from the day before. More...

A crew of student interns has been traveling Michigan this summer with a mobile boat washing station to help prevent the introduction of invasive species in lakes. More...

According to the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation, salt shipments through the St. Lawrence Seaway from April 2 to July 31 are up 3 per cent to 1.4 million metric tons, and those figures are in comparison to a particularly strong year in 2014. More...

In Muskegon, Mich., a task force studied drowning data at Pere Marquette Beach and determined the safety stations will be placed by the dog beach, one mid-beach, and one near the south breakwall. More...

A member of Congress wants Michiganders to speak out against a Canadian proposal to store nuclear waste underground less than a mile from the Lake Huron shore. More...

Gros Cap Marina Park, near the Government Dock, will become the first of a series of access points to the Lake Superior Water Trail, a paddling route along the lake's north shore between Sault Ste. Marie and Thunder Bay, Ont. More...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will rejoin the upper and lower parts of Cattaraugus Creek by lowering Scoby Dam at Springville, N.Y., to protect the watershed, open new spawning areas by building a fish ramp around the dam and make other aquatic improvements. More...

Athletes from around the world are ready to make waves at the Welland International Flatwater Centre in Welland, Ont., for the World Dragon Boat Racing Championships. More...

The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw spent Maritime Week in Sturgeon Bay, Wis., earlier this month, and is now dry docked at Bay Shipbuilding until September for repair work. More...

In Indiana, Friends of Indiana Dunes State Park will be celebrating the park's 90th anniversary years with historic photos and a "history hike". More...

In Michigan, Metro Detroit's storm water management system is severely aged, and a more resilient infrastructure is needed. The city will receive almost $9 million in federal disaster relief funds to help it prepare for future flooding. More...

In the past century, overfishing and habitat destruction practically wiped lake sturgeon from local waters but a variety of efforts over the past decade has served to raise both the profile and sheer number of the prehistoric fish in Milwaukee, Wis. More...

A 36 percent decrease in salt tonnage and a 42 percent decrease in limestone tonnage contributed significantly to the decline. More...

Recent legal developments have provided Wisconsin's groundwater, and the surface waters that depend on it, protection from the increasing effects of well pumping and other stressors. While both legal and resource conflicts may continue in the near future, recent precedent may help create a framework for resolving these conflicts legislatively, administratively, or through future court decisions. More...

In the past several months, the Michigan Department of Natural has stocked 16 rivers and creeks, plus one lake in Ionia County with fish. The species stocked were coho salmon, walleye and brown/rainbow trout. More...

U.S. grain shipments through the St. Lawrence Seaway are up 63 percent so far this season as ships transport corn to Canada, and soybeans for international export. More...

The first stop on the tour was a look at how the Pier B hotel project is using dredged material to re-enforce the historic slip walls. More...