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The Great Lakes are growing as a cruise destination. This year, Michigan will be visited 23 times by major cruise ships. More...
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With struggling economies, many First Nations are campaigning hard to grab a bigger piece of the natural resource extraction that is ramping up around the so-called Ring of Fire. More...
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The annual meeting and conference of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative takes place June 26-28. It brings together municipal, provincial, state and federal officials, along with their staff, concerned citizens and water specialists. Today, April 13, is the last day to receive the "early bird" reduced registration rate. More...
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The committee recommended a resolution opposing an agreement between 10 federal agencies and several states -- including New York -- that would make it easier to put wind turbines in Lake Ontario and other Great Lakes. More...
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The Maritime Archaeological Survey Team, or MAST, is a nonprofit group of volunteers who study and document Lake Erie shipwrecks. More...
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The food web in Lake Huron has undergone a drastic change in recent years and the major reason for this can be directly attributed to invasive species. More...
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St. Lawrence Seaway officials are predicting a 3% increase in traffic on the waterway to 38.6 million tonnes in 2012, thanks to buoyant foreign demand for iron ore and coal. This would follow a 2.5% increase in 2011 to 37.5 million tonnes. More...
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The different philosophy on transportation funding can be seen with the $6 billion to $7 billion Harbor Maintenance Fund, Huizenga said. In the past, that fund has been raided to cover the general budget deficit and not enough funds remained for needed Great Lakes annual dredging projects, he said. More...
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There will be presentations from EPA Incident Commander Ralph Dollhopf; EPA Region 5 Administrator Susan Hedman; Jim Rutherford, director of the Calhoun County Health Department; and representatives from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality. More...
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A group working to bring about the restoration of a breeding population of sturgeons in Michigan's Kalamazoo River will host a free double-feature public information film event from 2-5 p.m. Sunday, April 15. More...
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Each year, the city of Manitowoc, Wis., removes more than 3,000 cubic yards of sweepings from the streets in hopes of minimizing harmful runoff into local waterways. More...
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The MV Isardora, carrying approximately 10,000 tons of steel, traveled from Ijmuiden, Netherlands, to become Indiana's first international ship of 2012. More...
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Construction work is underway on a multimillion dollar riverfront attraction in Toledo's Marina District. More...
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The articulated barge-tug combination is the first such vessel built in Erie since the Presque Isle was launched in 1972. More...
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Next year's tall ships festival will be bigger than the one that brought nine ships to Duluth two years ago, Visit Duluth officials said Monday. More...
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Through his book, Titanic: The Great Lakes Connections, Cris Kohl tells the tales of how the legendary nautical disaster impacted families, communities and other vessels across the Great Lakes. More...
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Managers of Lake Michigan want to cut the number of Chinook salmon being put into the lake by as much as 50 percent next year. More...
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Three Ontario historians are trying to raise about $3,000 to install a plaque in Crystal Beach's Waterfront Park to memorialize Light Vessel 82, which disappeared near Point Abino during the vicious "white hurricane" in November 1913. More...
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First Wind, an independent U.S.-based wind energy company, has celebrated completion of its Steel Winds II expansion. More...
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The warm weather in the Great Lakes region this March is unusual, but it should not change hummingbirds' migration patterns and instincts, according to a hummingbird enthusiast who manages a website where people can post when and where they have seen the birds migrating. More...
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Officials in Michigan and Ohio agreed last week to cooperate more closely to find solutions to massive algae blooms in Lake Erie, a deadly threat to fish and a turn-off for tourists. More...
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Nearly a quarter-century has passed since the tenacious zebra mussel larvae were released in the Great Lakes, yet it was just last month that the Coast Guard issued a federal rule that sets an upper limit on the concentration of organisms in ballast water. More...
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The first international ship, or "saltie," of Lake Superior's shipping season arrived in the Duluth harbor Friday. The Dutch-flagged Arubaborg will load up with more than 10,000 tons of durum wheat on Monday to take to Belgium. En route to the Twin Ports, the 470-foot vessel dropped its cargo of steel pipe in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. More...
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A West Michigan shipwreck-exploring group has discovered a 90-foot two-masted schooner in deep water off the coast of Grand Haven. The ship, found in 350-foot deep water, may be the 1868-built St. Peter, a ship that sank in 1874 while delivering a load of wheat from Chicago to Buffalo. More...
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More than 200 people turned out for a public meeting Saturday in Southampton to hear more about Saugeen Shores possibly vying to become the site of Canada's first underground repository for high-level nuclear waste. More...