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Kennecott Eagle Minerals Co. finally has won state approval for a nickel and copper mine in the Upper Peninsula. But environmental groups have vowed to continue fighting the decision, further holding up the jobs and local business revenue the mine will provide. More...

Since the $500 million Harbor Shores development was announced in 2007 near Benton Harbor, Mich., a handful of residents has been fighting plans to use the public, city-owned Jean Klock Park for part of a golf course construction. More...

The Great Lakes carrier Blough was the last vessel through the locks, marking the official closing to vessel traffic until spring. More...

In 2005, with outraged lawmakers and local timber producers crying foul, the Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources hooked up with The Nature Conservancy to execute one of the largest land deals in state history. More...

A big monster of a fish is at the center of a US Supreme Court case. Asian Carp are making their way up the Mississippi towards the Great Lakes. Michigan's Attorney General filed a lawsuit asking the Court to close a canal in order to keep the carp out. The shipping industry says, 'no can do.' More...

A panel discussion on invasive species will be held today (Wed., Jan. 20) at the University of Michigan Law School. The event is free and open to the public. Join the panelists as they consider how best to address the problem of invasives - particularly those that enter the Great Lakes through the ballast water of ships. More...

Hundreds of lakeshore residents asked questions and voiced concerns Monday night about a proposal to build an offshore wind farm between Silver Lake and Ludington. More...

A big monster of a fish is at the center of a US Supreme Court case. Asian Carp are making their way up the Mississippi towards the Great Lakes. Michigan's Attorney General filed a lawsuit asking the Court to close a canal in order to keep the carp out. The shipping industry says, 'no can do.' More...

Hundreds of lakeshore residents asked questions and voiced concerns Monday night about a proposal to build an offshore wind farm between Silver Lake and Ludington. More...

The U.S. Supreme Court met behind closed doors last week to consider an emergency lawsuit filed in a last-ditch attempt to keep Asian carp from getting into the Great Lakes. But it may already be too late. In the fall, DNA from the fish was detected eight miles from Lake Michigan. More...

The swimming advisories issued each summer at Presque Isle State Park are triggered in part by storms, which bring more surface water -- and more E. coli bacteria -- into Lake Erie. Other chemicals wash in with it. More...

A big monster of a fish is at the center of a US Supreme Court case. Asian Carp are making their way up the Mississippi towards the Great Lakes. Michigan's Attorney General filed a lawsuit asking the Court to close a canal in order to keep the carp out. The shipping industry says, 'no can do.' More...

Add another player to the already-crowded field of developers dreaming of bringing a world-class aquarium to Cleveland. The latest entry, Great Lakes Aquarium of Cleveland Inc., wants to build a $70 million aquarium as part of a lakefront development project planned for land occupied by the Port of Cleveland. More...

On Jan. 29 a new Brookings Institution report will be released outlining a strategy for attracting and retaining venture capital investment in the Midwest. The report documents the region's significant Midwest and Great Lakes contributions to national innovation through high levels of R&D and patenting, as well as science, engineering and management talent generation. More...

Since 2004, the state has allowed 42 treatment facilities, power plants and factories to ignore federal limits on dumping mercury into lakes, rivers and streams. More...

Ninth Coast Guard District cutters concluded a busy week of ice breaking operations on the Great Lakes, Friday, with a majority of this week's operations occurring on the Lake St. Clair River system. More...

Cargo traffic through the Port of Toledo declined for a second consecutive year in 2009, with steel and steel-related freight leading the 8.75 percent drop. More...

Michigan fisheries officials are seeing signs that a move to reduce the number of Chinook salmon released into Lake Michigan is improving the balance between the popular game fish and its prey. More...

A Scarborough supermarket has been fined thousands of dollars after the province's Ministry of Natural Resources discovered the store was selling a live invasive fish. More...

Gov. Granholm appointed Rebecca Humphries as director of the new Mich. Dept. of Natural Resources and Environment. The merger, which takes effect Sunday, "ushers in a bold, fresh approach to the way Michigan manages and protects our state's treasured environmental and natural resources," Granholm said. More...

The New York Power Authority's plan for offshore wind turbines in the Great Lakes is drawing "huge interest" from developers all over the world, the head of the authority said Thursday. NYPA is seeking proposals for 100 or more windmills in Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. More...

Michigan wolves do not need federal protection and haven't for the last decade, according to Department of Natural Resource Wildlife Division Chief Russ Mason. More...

Gov. Granholm appointed Rebecca Humphries as director of the new Mich. Dept. of Natural Resources and Environment. The merger, which takes effect Sunday, "ushers in a bold, fresh approach to the way Michigan manages and protects our state's treasured environmental and natural resources," Granholm said. More...

Mud in the Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal is so contaminated with a cancer-causing industrial pollutant that it could rank among the most contaminated sites in the nation, researchers say. The Army Corps of Engineers plans to dredge the canal starting in late 2011 to facilitate ship traffic. More...

Dredging Toledo's Harbor, so ship traffic can come in and out, is good for our area's economy. But some say the process has a flaw. The problem is where the material goes after. More...