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An Indiana company caught bringing live Asian carp into Canada was fined $20,000 Monday in Sarnia, Ont., court. More...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says Great Lakes water levels will be mostly lower this boating season. It says all but Lake Ontario will have lower levels in the summer 2011 season than they did in the 2010 season. More...

Ottawa has reconfirmed its commitment to six area Great Lakes projects worth just over $300,000. More...

The Lake Ontario fishery continues to be great for a Great Lake, and it's only going to get greater -- provided a few tweaks planned by state and federal fishery biologists take hold. More...

There is expected to be money in the federal harbor maintenance fund in the coming years for Muskegon and Grand Haven's harbors but other communities such as Ludington and Holland might not be funded. More...

Lessons learned from water-borne disease outbreaks in Walkerton and Milwaukee over the past two decades are still playing a major part in the development of clean water technologies across the globe. More...

With Muskegon County's job market still hurting, educators are pointing students toward an often-overlooked field they hope will provide the economic jolt West Michigan needs: the maritime industry. More...

A fish importer has been fined $50,000 for trying to haul a truckload of live Asian carp into Canada, including one of the species threatening to invade the Great Lakes, officials said Friday. More...

The Great Lakes are dependant on the snow pack and the spring runoff to refill the lakes every year. We had a chance to talk to an expert at the Army Corp of Engineers in Detroit where they closely monitor the rise and fall of our most important natural resource. More...

The Mississippi River has been written off by the federal government (and others) as Asian-carp infested. Never mind that the stretch of the Mississippi that forms Minnesota's border is as yet largely free of these fish. More...

A coalition of conservation groups announced this week they intend to take the Chicago water reclamation district to court to force it to begin treating the Chicago River system more like a river and less like a sewer. More...

The Michigan Clean Water Corps is recruiting volunteers to monitor the quality of the state's inland lakes. More...

Proposed changes to rules governing when and where commercial fishers can set trap nets in southern Lake Michigan, and how such nets should be marked in that water as well as in Lake Superior, will be discussed at a March 16 public hearing in Bayfield. More...

You can expect to see a significant increase in the number of lake freighters flying the Black Bear house flag of Algoma Central Corp. on area waterways in the near future. More...

With 185,000 surface acres from the Upper River down to Lake Huron the St. Marys River Fisheries Task Group covered a wide range of topics Wednesday evening during a lengthy public meeting on the campus of Lake Superior State University. More...

Muskegon County tourism officials want to capitalize on the momentum created by Michigan's Adventure and the Winter Sports Complex and bring more visitors to the area. More...

Responding to a recent New York Times article questioning the safety of disposal methods for wastewater produced by natural gas drilling, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey has called upon state and federal agencies to increase inspections of Pennsylvania drinking water sources for radioactive contamination. More...

Two western Pennsylvania water companies say they'll begin testing water supplies for radiation, citing treated gas-drilling water that's discharged into streams and rivers. More...

Michele Wheeler, the executive director of the Bad River Watershed Association, traveled out east this week to participate in Washington, D.C.'s annual Great Lakes Day. More...

Michigan residents living along the St. Clair River and Lake St. Clair said they are bracing for thousands of dead fish to be released when the water thaws. More...

Varied prices at tap also reflect distance, elevation from source. The size of your household water bill depends not just on how much you use but what time you -- and your neighbors -- turn on the faucets. More...

After the brownouts of the late 1990s, electric utilities in Wisconsin got serious about adding generating capacity. Although the new power plants that followed, including ones in the Milwaukee area, ultimately increased rates for customers, they could become a boon for them as the economy rebounds, according to the state's new Strategic Energy Assessment. More...

Protecting northern Michigan trout streams from the potential threats of oil and gas development will take some watchdogging by a fishing and conservation organization, according to a report commissioned by the Anglers of the Au Sable. More...

The Grand Traverse Lighthouse, located north of Northport at the tip of the Leelanau Peninsula, has a history fairly typical of Great Lakes lighthouses. Abandoned by the Coast Guard in 1972, it passed among government agencies which had no use for it. Its location within the staffed Leelanau State Park is probably the biggest single factor sparing it from the vandalism which has plagued so many other obsolete lighthouses. More...

A state report concluded Tuesday that Minnesota's environmental review process for major development projects is muddled with unnecessary delays. More...