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DNR Water Guards and wardens will be checking boats at popular landings across Wisconsin, educating hunters about the rules for preventing invasive species, and enforcing them. More...
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Several federally-funded shoreline restoration projects are moving forward in the Blue Water Area along the St. Clair River. More...
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Wetland specialists in Michigan are getting schooled in an obscure and unlikely area - gold prospecting. More...
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The 2011 State of Lake Michigan and Great Lakes Beach Association Joint Conference takes place this week, Sept. 26-28. If you can't be there in person, consider tuning in online to one of the conference webinars. Several webinars require advance registration. More...
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Visit Pure Michigan, Michigan's official travel and toursim website, for a collection of fall color tours throughout the state. As the leaves begin to change, make your plans to view some of Michigan's 19 million acres of woods as they light up for the autumn season. More...
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River Rouge, Mich., will move quickly to identify the source of mysterious rumblings that have plagued Windsor residents for months. More...
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The EPA says there are still close to one hundred areas of submerged oil on the bottom of the Kalamazoo River. Enbridge is now working to remove that oil, which spilled last year in the middle of some of the most sensitive wetland areas in Michigan. More...
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Best-selling author and Nobel Prize co-recipient Al Gore will be the plenary keynote speaker at the International Joint Commission's Great Lakes Water Quality Biennial Meeting in Detroit, Michigan on October 13, 2011. More...
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U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Michigan, will meet at Saginaw Valley State University to discuss federal efforts to protect the Great Lakes from the invasive Asian carp. More...
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will be ramping up the juice in the electric barrier designed to keep Asian carp out of Lake Michigan within the next few weeks. More...
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The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa's tribal council traveled to Madison, Wis., this week to air their concerns about Gogebic Taconite's plans to mine iron ore in Iron and Ashland counties. More...
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Fisheries officials bordering Lake Michigan and Lake Huron will soon have a clearer picture of how chinook salmon reproduce in the Great Lakes from a tagging program that went full-scale this year. More...
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Northeast Ohio leaders warned today that a state Senate proposal to repeal Ohio's renewable energy portfolio standard for public utilities would significantly imperil an ambitious plan to develop wind energy in Lake Erie. More...
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Lake St. Clair is known for its tremendous catch rates for smallmouth bass, perhaps the best bass fishery in the Great Lakes. More...
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One of the world's newest sunflower species, discovered by a University of Wisconsin-Madison botanist, has carved out a very small but safe niche on an island in Lake Superior. More...
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Ships are having trouble getting into the business's harbor because of all the sediment underwater, and the Army Corps of Engineers says it's unlikely the harbor will ever bounce back. More...
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The Kingston-class ships -- named so after the first ship built, the HMCS Kingston -- are currently on a public relations tour of the Great Lakes region. More...
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In a statement issued on Tuesday by Midwest Environmental Advocates, a public interest law firm, on behalf of the tribe, the law firm said the project "would adversely affect the Bad River Indian Reservation, the Bad River watershed and Lake Superior." More...
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Mequon, Cedarburg and Grafton are hiring an engineering consultant to study the feasibility of the three communities joining together to supply their residents and businesses with Lake Michigan water 15 to 20 years from now. More...
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The boating season is being cut short for some northern New York marinas because of rapidly dropping water levels on Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. More...
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The International Joint Commission (IJC) announced that former Vice President, best-selling author and Nobel Prize co-recipient Al Gore will be the plenary keynote speaker at its Great Lakes Water Quality Biennial Meeting in Detroit, Mich., at 1:15 pm on Oct. 13. Seating is limited and registration is required. More...
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Col. Margaret W. Burcham received command of the Great Lakes and Ohio River Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during a formal ceremony at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. More...
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Some metropolitan areas that were particularly hard hit by the recession--in California and the Great Lakes, specifically--have managed to recover relatively quickly, while much of the South and some Mountain states have lagged behind. More...
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Local officials recently used dogs to track human sewage in northern Michigan's Traverse Bay and Holland's Lake Macatawa. More...
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The year-to-date total for Canadian grain, according to Andrew Bogora, communications and public relations officer of St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation, has increased by 19 per cent. More...