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One of Minnesota's most famous landmarks is getting a facelight by crews working along the North Shore. More...

Runoff from this past winter's heavy snowfall has forced Kingston to send nearly four times more untreated sewage into local waterways in the first three months of 2008 than for all of 2007. More...

The Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program, in partnership with a network of academic, public policy, business and civic organizations, began a multi-year research and policy development initiative in 2005 to improve the economic vitality of the Great Lakes region. This site provides updates on progress. More...

River Network's National River Rally 2008, May 2-5 in Huron, Ohio, will help grassroots groups, tribes and agencies harness the power of citizen involvement to protect rivers and build healthier communities and watersheds. The River Rally will bring together hundreds of friends of rivers, water keepers, monitors, stewards and others involved in watershed protection and restoration. More...

This study estimates the transportation cost penalty to U.S. and Canadian shippers (manufacturers, grain trading companies, etc.) if ocean ships were no longer available to haul goods into and out of the Great Lakes. More...

The monk parrot is one of dozens of animals and plants the Department of Natural Resources is hoping to regulate more strictly under new invasive species rules that will go before the Natural Resources Board for approval this spring and then to the State Legislature later this year. More...

When city officials announced an ambitious, $200-million plan to use ozone to disinfect the waste water dumped into the St. Lawrence River, they said the project would make Montreal a leader in the field of waste-water disinfection. More...

The Norfolk-Haldimand shoreline is the focus of an ambitious plan to restore the lake trout population of Lake Erie. More...

A Toronto company that for the last five years has been trying to build a Hovercraft service on Lake Ontario is now trying to revive the Toronto-Rochester ferry. More...

Gov. Jim Doyle plans to make a "major announcement" today regarding the Great Lakes Compact that has been stalled in the Legislature under opposition from Assembly Republicans. More...

A fatal infectious disease in fish is the biggest challenge ever faced by a group that represents provincial bait operators. More...

Michigan City will receive $400,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to clean up two brownfield properties, EPA said Monday. More...

A research biologist from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab Friday discussed various sources of phosphorus and the impact it has on water quality in Saginaw Bay. More...

Even though Milwaukee was hit by near-historic levels of snow this winter, the effect of so much moisture will diminish greatly in the months to come. More...

Wisconsin citizens can't afford the consequences of any mistakes in legislation as significant as the Great Lakes Compact. More...

Few people realize the existence of Great Lakes shipwrecks, some more than 100 years old and hundreds of feet long, unseen by the naked eye. More...

Changes made to London, Ontario's, water chemistry have reduced the lead in city taps. More...

The idea of giant wind turbines sticking out of Lake Michigan is drawing mixed reaction from people who live along the lakeshore. More...

Ohio communities in the Lake Erie watershed can apply for federal grants of up to $3 million. More...

This year's gathered crop of eggs from mature walleyes has to be disinfected and thoroughly tested for VHS. More...

Before you dust off your rods and lube your reels, note there are some changes in the fishing regulations this year. More...

The seeds of Michigan's stocked walleye fishery were being gathered Wednesday amid fears of possible VHS infection. More...

Ties between the chemical industry and expert review panels hired by the Environmental Protection Agency are being investigated. More...

This year's long, hard winter was likely responsible for an unusually large fish kill on MI's Mona Lake. More...

Thanks to needed funding, the nonprofit organization Friends of the St. Clair River Watershed will strengthen its efforts. More...