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Waukesha residents who want to take long showers or water their lawns could face higher water rate increases than their neighbors who conserve under a new rate structure the city's water utility wants to implement. More...
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Magee Marsh on Lake Erie is a wildlife area that a top birding magazine considers one of the 10 best places in the country for bird watching. The 2,202-acre wildlife area is located about 17 miles west of Port Clinton, Ohio. More...
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Steelhead anglers look forward to warm, spring rains that raise both the water level and temperature in tributaries of the Great Lakes, signaling the fish that it's a good time to move upstream and start to think about spawning. More...
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Indiana's Washington Park beach is too beautiful a place to allow broken concrete and rock to be on the beach, even in early spring. More...
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Diversification of cargo and more container traffic are among the things the head of the St. Lawrence Seaway sees in the international waterway's future as it celebrates its 50th birthday. More...
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Much like Punxsutawney Phil, Sun Prairie's Jimmy and fellow groundhogs, sightings of the American robin are considered by many to be a sign that spring either is here or soon will be. Or is it? More...
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This Saturday, March 28 at 8:30 P.M. you can join millions of others and "vote earth" by switching off your lights for one hour - Earth Hour. More...
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Money spent by Wisconsin investigating contamination by Excel Energy's Northern States Power Company coal gasification plant on the shore of Lake Superior has been returned in an out of court settlement Wednesday. More...
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Ron Kurth always worried about the smoke and smog that overcast the Lake Michigan shoreline. He decided someone ought to do something about it. On Wednesday, he filed a lawsuit on behalf of his daughter against 11 northwest Indiana industries. More...
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The Ohio Lake Erie Commission (OLEC) will provide grants for four studies that will investigate the causes and impacts of Lake Erie algal blooms, as well as physical habitat distribution within the Lake Erie fishery. More...
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The Port of Oswego Authority has taken over the operations of the Oswego and International marinas. The port, which owns the facilities, had leased the marinas to Grawal Enterprises for the past 18 years. More...
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Everyone in Hamilton with Internet access will soon have real-time access to detailed air pollution data from monitoring stations across the bayfront industrial area and beyond. The Hamilton Air Monitoring Network plans to open its website June 1. More...
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A Lake Township businessman's proposal to establish a depot in west central Ohio to assemble wind turbines from imported components could be beneficial to the Port of Toledo, a port official said. More...
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It's expected to be a slow start to the 2009 commercial shipping season when the Poe Lock gates swing open at 12:01 a. m. Wednesday. More...
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A piece of history at the Duluth port is now on the bottom of Lake Superior Bay. The hull of the tugboat "Essayons" slipped to the bottom of its slip Tuesday, due to nasty weather and the ship's age. More...
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A government team overseeing construction of a $1.6-billion highway to a new border crossing failed to properly conduct its human health risk assessment, according to a scathing 16-page internal report by a toxicologist for Ontario's environment ministry. More...
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A newly released study is touting the potential of renewable energy as one of Ohio's growth industries and future employment centers. More...
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The Great Lakes are more than a place to call home and a resource we use every day -- they are one of the natural wonders of the world. Learn more about how to listen to your lakes at this informative site created by Chicago's Shedd Aquarium. More...
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Michigan's tourism industry is expected to face another difficult year in 2009. The state's third-largest industry is expected to fall by 3 to 4 percent in 2009, Michigan State University tourism experts said Monday during the Michigan Governor's Conference at the Renaissance Center. More...
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After years of planning and study, the cleanup of toxic industrial chemicals from the Milwaukee River and Lincoln Creek could begin next year. The project is likely to cost tens of millions of dollars, with much of it coming from the federal government. More...
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Starting the second week of April, fisheries division staff from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources will be on Lake Hudson collecting eggs from muskellunge fish for the state hatchery program. The eggs will be collected on site and the fish will be immediately returned to the lake. More...
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Daily newspapers will become a thing of the past for readers in four Michigan markets, with issues being printed only three days a week in Flint, Saginaw and Bay City, and twice weekly in Ann Arbor. The industry overall has been hunting for ways to counter a crippling decline in advertising. More...
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The Huron Mountain Wildlife Foundation was established in 1955 to encourage and support scientific study of the living things, lands, and waters of the Lake Superior region. More...
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Every year more than 250 species of night migrating birds, including warblers, thrushes and tanagers, fly over Michigan during their spring and fall migrations. As birds fly over well-lighted urban areas, the lights tend to disorient them. More...
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Bold projections of growth underpin the Cleveland port's need for a larger home on the lakefront, north of East 55th Street. But the port's shipping business has been more static than bold for years. That's why some fear that predictions of long-term growth could lead to an oversized, underused port. More...