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A local movement to get national heritage recognition for the Welland Canals -- past and present -- is gaining momentum, now that the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corp. has officially joined the team. More...
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The International Upper Great Lakes Study recently posted updates online. The updates include highlights of a progress report submitted to the International Joint Commission, a presentation made to members of Congress and information about plans for gathering public input this summer. More...
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A new program called the "Duluth Stream Corps" will be launched by Community Action Duluth after funding was received by the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. More...
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The City of Alpena and Thunder Bay Marina have reached a deal to keep the city's harbor running for the next year. More...
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If people really can't understand why the concern about preventing an Asian carp invasion is so high in this state, they just need to take a look at the our history. It isn't pretty. More...
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The goal is to figure out an efficient way to put wind turbines in Lake Erie in order to convince private developers to build more of them, which could attract manufacturers to the region. More...
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If completed, the project would be one of the city's biggest steps in its bid to move away from car-friendly planning and embrace a greener form of city building. More...
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Using complexity to describe disease clusters and remediation of toxic sites like White Lake, Mich. and others that dot the Great Lakes is a gross understatement. But one thing is simple and within our grasp. That's the ability to accelerate the cleanup of contaminated sites. More...
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Until last July, many people in Marshall had no idea an oil pipeline owned by Enbridge Energy Partners ran underneath their town. Then, it broke. More than 840,000 gallons of thick, black oil from the Canadian tar sands poured into the Kalamazoo River. More...
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The Lake Michigan salmon fishery will get a shot in the arm Tuesday when local charter boat captains and members of area fishing clubs take possession of 171,000 fingerling chinook salmon. For a few weeks, at least. More...
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U.S. Rep. Steven C. LaTourette said he hopes legislation he co-introduced to eliminate the tax on the value of cargo in the Great Lakes could remove a major barrier to establishing ferry service across Lake Erie to Canada from a Northeast Ohio port. More...
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As Green Bay's port kicks off another shipping season, the port director provided a report on last year's accomplishments and what the city can expect this year. More...
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With the annual spring kickoff scheduled for Wednesday, April 20, the Alliance for the Great Lakes welcomes volunteers to help improve beach health throughout the Great Lakes. More...
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed removing gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region from the endangered species list. More...
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Great Lakes scientists monitoring the salmon population found numerous red flags in their annual analysis of the health of the fishery. More...
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Hugh MacIsaac is riding the wave of the University of Windsor's growing academic footprint. As director of the National Science and Engineering Research Council's Canadian Aquatic Invasive Species Network II, he's heading up a Canadawide study of invasive species along the country's coasts. More...
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Howard Tanner knew the idea of introducing salmon into Lake Michigan was risky -- even more so converting a dying commercial fishery into a sport fishery. But in 1964, Tanner, the new state fisheries chief, had just been told to "do something spectacular." More...
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Longtime Vista Fleet cruise boat the Vista King will find new life as an excursion boat in Milwaukee. More...
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The vessel represents more than a year of work for Hike Metal Products Ltd. and its more than 20 workers. It's the largest boat the Wheatley ship builder has sent out of the harbor in four or five years and is larger than a fireboat built in 2007 for Baltimore. More...
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For thousands of years ever since the great ice melted, the pristine waters of this place have nurtured and inspired. More...
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A five-year study by the U.S. Geological Survey in Lansing, Michigan, released earlier this year indicated groundwater levels have dropped by 1,000 feet in the Chicago and Milwaukee metropolitan regions due to increased demand from municipal pumping stations. More...
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New York Sea Grant is celebrating the success of 2010 programs, which increased education and outreach on Great Lakes issues. More...
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Canada's east and west coast waters are thinly defended at best. The Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River are rife with lawlessness that Canadian authorities lack the muscle to tackle. So where does the Harper government want to pour big bucks on defending our borders? The far North. More...
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As New York Power Authority officials near a decision point for their Great Lakes offshore wind-farm plans, they find themselves almost alone in their pursuit: Nearly all the other freshwater offshore wind projects in North America have stalled or died. More...
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Lost in the politics of dam building are the rivers. From the Ontario border to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, only three major or mid-size rivers have not been harnessed for their electric power. Once Hydro-Quèbec finishes damming the Romaine, it plans giant hydro dams for the neighbouring Petit Mecatina and Magpie Rivers. More...