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After years of complaints about murky water, officials in Phoenix, N.Y., unanimously voted to contract out to another water source for drinking water. The village may end up getting its water from Lake Ontario. More...

The Great Lakes Phragmites Collaborative webinar series focuses on invasive Phragmites in the Great Lakes region, and encourages dialogue and technology transfer. Register now for the next free webinar, Effects of Elevated CO2 and Nitrogen Pollution on Phragmites austrailis, which will take place Nov. 12. More...

A waterfront access advocate has filed a formal appeal with the city of Erie's Zoning Office, contending that 1,100 feet of new public walkway along the former GAF Materials Corp. property on the city's west bayfront does not comply with city zoning laws. More...

Another facility has been added to the 4R Nutrient Stewardship Certification Program's growing list of nutrient service providers to achieve certified status. The voluntary certification program is a concentrated effort by the agriculture industry to significantly reduce and prevent applied nutrients from running off fields, which has contributed to harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie. More...

After years of complaints about murky water, village officials unanimously voted to contract out to another water source for drinking water. The company gets its water from Lake Ontario. More...

Recently Port officials reported it supports nearly 18,000 jobs and $1.8 billion in economic activity every year, beating the number of the glitzier money drawers by hundreds of millions. More...

The future, present, and past of marine shipping on the Great Lakes was discussed at length at luncheon held in Goderich, ON last week. More...

The St. Regis river was one of several waterways in St. Lawrence and Franklin counties where the N.Y. DEC released lake sturgeon that had been shipped from Wisconsin. More...

St. Lawrence County's operations committee is supporting a proposed water plan that would regulate flows and levels on the St. Lawrence River. More...

A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service report shows the wolf population in Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin has grown. More...

Wisconsin natural resources officials say they've identified a genetic sample indicating invasive Asian carp may have found their way into the Fox River in the Green Bay area. More...

NOAA Fisheries is making available roughly $16.7 million, through President Obama's Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, for habitat restoration projects in severely degraded areas of the Great Lakes. Funded projects are spread throughout Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, and New York. More...

The Salmon River Fish Hatchery near Pulaski, N.Y., was originally constructed to help rebuild the Great Lakes fishery. Today, the fishery is thriving and is used to raise steelhead, Chinook salmon, Coho salmon, brown trout and landlocked salmon. More...

Provincial funding has allowed phragmites fighters in Lambton Shores, Ont., to make progress in battling the invasive reed in a significant wetland just west of Kettle and Stony Point. More...

The latest in a series of Indiana Department of Natural Resources posters celebrates both the Grand and Little Calumet rivers. More...

During the late summer and early fall, the water level on the Great Lakes usually drops several inches. This year, three of those lakes, Superior, Michigan and Huron, have seen the opposite happen - rising water levels. More...

"Luck of the Draw -- The Mataafa Story" chronicles the shi's November 1905 shipwreck just offshore from Duluth with the loss of nine lives. More...

In Detroit -- a city under emergency management that is reeling from decades of deindustrialization and neighborhood decay -- the poorest are losing access to water. More...

There's some dispute over whether Niagara Falls is still considered the 'Honeymoon Capital of the World.' More...

Lake Huron was, and is now again, way above what is regarded as "chart datum" by the Canadian Coast Guard -- a big change from a couple of summer's ago when we all were complaining about the lake's low level. More...

Beginning today, the New York Power Authority will be removing docks and buoys along the St. Lawrence River for the winter. More...

Steel shipments are up at the Port of Milwaukee by 47 percent through September. More...

The N.Y. state Department of Environmental Conservation is accepting public comments on a series of proposed changes to the state's freshwater fishing regulations. More...

The phosphorus-fueled harmful algal blooms, or HABs, around western Lake Erie has provoked changes in the fish populations. More...

The Toledo water crisis has reopened a debate about a man-made island called Facility 3, located near the Toledo-Oregon, Ohio, border where the Maumee River flows into Lake Erie's Maumee Bay. More...