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They're down in the dumps economically, so it's not surprising that fewer Americans are crossing the border to visit Thunder Bay and beyond. More...

Pulling logs out of the Great Lakes and Michigan lakes, ponds, and streams for economic use is now legal thanks to new legislation signed by Governor Rick Snyder. More...

With more than $20 million in new investment, a shipping facility in Windsor's west side has become the place for freighters to fuel up as they traverse the Great Lakes. More...

Cold weather from the Arctic carries sweet bird species, ruddy ducks, horned grebes,surf scoters, etc. to Northeast Ohio. More...

The decade-old plan that we shoot all our sewage through a tunnel uphill through the Oak Ridges Moraine then downhill all the way to Lake Ontario does seem archaic in comparison to building a close-to-home state of the art "reverse osmosis" plant that will put treated water into the East Holland River that's cleaner than what's already there, and then by using "phosphorus trading" make investments in other Lake Simcoe projects that increase the bang for the buck. More...

Members of a city employees union said Wednesday they will file a lawsuit to block a federal judge's reorganization of the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department. More...

In 2009, Wolfe Island became host to an 86-turbine wind farm, the second largest wind energy project in Canada. More...

They're complex stove-sized winches specifically used to tie off vessels sailing the St. Lawrence Seaway.And for a Chinese shipyard making lakers for Canada Steamship Lines, nobody does it better than Dilts Piston Hydraulics in St. Catharines. More...

Huron-Kinloss Township in Ontario won an award for its comprehensive community septic inspection system, which was in keeping with the theme of the 2011 conference, linking land to the lakes. More...

Michigan's agriculture industry is busy expanding in China. But the same can't be said for the state's tourism industry. At least not yet. A million Chinese tourists are expected to visit the U.S. this year. But only a relative handful will come to the Great Lakes State. More...

Canadians learned their government is negotiating funding for the Lake Superior Binational Program when the Minister of the Environment responded to a question on the subject from Carol Hughes, MP for Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing last Friday. More...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff says there are no environmental reasons to reject DTE Energy Co.'s application to build a nuclear power plant next to its existing Fermi 2 plant in southeastern Michigan. More...

A coalition of environmental groups from Quèbec and Atlantic Canada is calling on Quèbec Environment Minister Pierre Arcand to order public hearings into the future of oil and gas exploration and production in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. More...

Environmental and wildlife groups in Wisconsin on Tuesday decried efforts by the owners of the SS Badger ferry service to get an exemption from federal pollution laws that would allow the ship to dump more than 500 tons of coal ash a year in Lake Michigan. More...

"If a place like Cleveland is able to establish the demonstration project and then is able to leverage that demonstration project into a larger position in the industry, this could really, really have an impact on the local economy." More...

Although invasive species are a serious problem in the Great Lakes, LaTourette does have research to back his assertion that they haven't been spreading through ballast water. On the Truth-O-Meter, LaTourette's claim rates True. More...

One of Canada's most successful small-wind companies has carved out its niche with relatively old technology. More...

Our wonderful natural resource -- the Great Lakes -- brings us jobs, recreation and power, so efforts to improve that resource deserve our support. More...

A Milwaukee, Wis., water meter manufacturer thinks the key to dealing with the impending global water crisis will be technological innovation. Water technology will be to the next few decades what computer tech has been for the last thirty years: the driver of world-transforming innovation. More...

Decades ago, Nipigon, Ontario's Kama Creek was realigned to protect a railway crossing from erosion. But the move destroyed brook trout spawning grounds and created a barrier to migration up the creek. Now, the creek is being redirected to its original course. More...

Michigan state officials determined that the "muck" building up along the Lake St. Clair shoreline is comprised of bluegreen algae, which may be exacerbated in Lake St. Clair due to zebra mussels, storm water runoff and municipal wastewater discharge. More...

This time-lapse video by NASA's Earth Observatory was made from a series of photographs to make a great flight simulation over the Great Lakes. See if you can spot the big cities, aurora borealis and lightning bolts (and if you get stuck, look here at a labeled NASA photograph). More...

Hybrid offspring of coyotes and wolves have spread south along the eastern seaboard, a new DNA study confirms. More...

The new GVSU wind research platform is now located four miles off the Nugent Sand property in Lake Michigan, just south of the Muskegon pierheads. More...

Engineers say Ballville Dam, a 100-year-old structure that rests a short distance above downtown Fremont on the Sandusky River, needs repairs totaling millions of dollars. More...