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The $62,500 craft will be powered by an aircraft-like propeller and able to move on top of ice, ice chunks and water -- much the same as the Ashland air boat "Ice Angel," which made a dramatic ice rescue near Saxon Harbor, Wis., last month. More...
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Stephen Harper and Barack Obama will meet on Friday to set in motion the most sweeping changes to the Canada-U.S. border since the 1988 free-trade agreement.The talks on border infrastructure would take as their example the St. Lawrence Seaway, which Canada and the United States built in the 1950s and jointly manage. More...
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Bringing new jobs and development to Wisconsin is great. Bypassing normal state procedures to do so, not so much, especially when it's done to favor one business. More...
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The National Weather Service earlier Tuesday issued a rare lakefront flood warning tied to the blizzard now bearing down on the Milwaukee area.Meteorologists predict strengthening northeast gale winds will produce prolonged periods of waves 10 to 16 feet high on Lake Michigan More...
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A local water expert says the extension of a Canada-Ontario environment agreement will bring the goal of delisting the St. Clair River as a pollution hot spot a step closer to reality. More...
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The bicentennial of this event is not so much about remembering a devastating war, but rather commemorating the 200 years of peace that followed. More...
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Six months after a large spill in Michigan, the oil is cleaned up but lawsuits and complaints remain, lawyers say. More...
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You can plot out your next lighthouse visit with the newly available 2011 map to the lighthouses on the Lake Michigan Circle Tour. More...
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In 2008, heavy rain triggered mudslides in Grant Park--with trees and chunks of land literally skidding down bluffs, across the beach, and into the lake--a sober reminder that coastal erosion poses a real threat along Lake Michigan. More...
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The 2010 shipping season was a comeback year for the Twin Ports. After 2009's 31.2 million tons shipped-- the lowest since the Great Depression -- tonnage shipped rose 28 percent in 2010 to nearly 40 million. More...
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This year, 10 U.S.-flagged ships are berthed in Duluth-Superior, and the oft-repeated estimate is that $800,000 to $1million is spent on repairs and maintenance on each vessel during the off-season. Double or triple that to get the total economic impact on the local economy, said Jim Sharrow, facilities manager for the Duluth Seaway Port Authority. More...
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The Coast Guard is releasing the Great Lakes Maritime Strategy, a multi-year plan for Coast Guard activities in the region. More...
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Adults living in areas contaminated with dioxin from a Dow Chemical Co. plant in Midland shouldn't worry about exposure to the deadly toxin from soil in their yards or household dust, a scientist said Friday. More...
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New information about sand dunes along Lake Michigan is expected to improve protection of archeological sites, researchers and planners say. More...
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The Coast Guard is releasing the Great Lakes Maritime Strategy, a multi-year plan for Coast Guard activities in the region. More...
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During a year in which Muskegon's port was put on Michigan's center stage, shipping activity in and out of Muskegon stayed pretty much the same. More...
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Conservationists at the Kalamazoo Nature Center want to stop invasive species from encroaching on area wetlands. A recent Environmental Protection Agency grant should help. More...
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The U.S. federal government is committed to keeping Asian carp out of the Great Lakes and is putting a strategy in place as quickly as possible, despite complaints of foot-dragging, the Obama administration's point man on the issue said Thursday. More...
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A multi million dollar project designed to boost wildlife tourism in Michigan is expected to open this spring. More...
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A fish die-off involving the species gizzard shad occurring in southeast Michigan is a natural event due to harsh winter weather conditions and a large year-class, according to the Department of Natural Resources. More...
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Council affirmed its stance against wind turbines in Lake Erie Monday night. More...
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With about 90 percent of Lake Erie now frozen over, residents in the "snow belt" can rest easy knowing that the worse of lake effect snow this season is now over with. More...
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Flint is keeping its options open, even as a new water authority prepares to provide a flow of fresh water to Genesee County and the city. As well it should. More...
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Our government's respect and protection of private property rights should be absolute. Unfortunately, that is not the experience of thousands of property owners along the Lake Erie shoreline who are before the Ohio Supreme Court fighting to keep those rights. More...
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The late Laurence Scott spent only a few years of his working life on board ships but that experience gave the former Athens resident a life-long interest in both ordinary and unique vessels that plied the waterways of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River. More...