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An American fisheries research vessel accidentally snagged an old barge that may have sunk in the Cloud Bay area, Ont. more than 100 years ago. More...
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The algae bloom crisis in Lake Erie is prompting regional and national concern. Detroit Public Television, in conjunction with The Nature Conservancy, partnered to provide critical and in-depth information about the algae bloom crisis and discuss what can be done to prevent harmful effects. More...
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It's one of those things every elected official feels obliged to say, even though they - of all people - know it won't happen. That's not to say it couldn't. More...
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Officials say the event will coordinate a response to a fictitious waterborne threat in Lake Ontario and will include activities in Buffalo, Oswego and Rochester, and on Lake Erie and the Niagara River. More...
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Tests done last year and in 2011 -- the worst year on record for massive harmful algal blooms -- showed the fish were not contaminated with the toxin More...
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The grant will help researchers get a better picture of how the lakes are responding to changing environmental conditions and what needs to be done to preserve their ecosystems far into the future. More...
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History is more than a job for Gill Bibby -- it's a passion. He's chair of the Hamilton and Scourge Society and he often participates in historic re-enactments, sometimes on film as an extra, and is religious about boat restoration. More...
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Rising Great Lakes levels have created shallow-water areas on previously exposed mudflats, creating conditions for the bacteria to grow. More...
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The city of Bad Axe, Mich. recently joined the effort to oppose a Canadian power company's proposal to store radioactive waste 2,200 feet underground and within a mile of the Lake Huron shoreline. More...
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This weekend's "raft off," in Lake St. Clair was also an attempt at a world record. More...
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There could be a significant shot of chilly air that comes across the Great Lakes region and into the interior Northeast sometime in mid- to late-September. More...
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With its new majority, Ontario should pass an ambitious Great Lakes Protection Act create new financing tools for water management. More...
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The City of Port Washington, Wis. has been awarded a $500,000 Recreational Boating Fund Grant for repair work on a degraded breakwater. More...
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Past and current methods of regulating ballast water discharges are ineffective, says the executive director of the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation. More...
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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's four-part series on invasive species in the Great Lakes misinterpreted and oversimplified the facts, says American Great Lakes Ports Association executive director. More...
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White Lake's decades-long comeback from open sewer and chemical catch-basin has been nothing short of amazing. By the end of 2014, White Lake will be one of the first two Michigan sites to be removed from a list of "toxic hot spots" called the Great Lakes Areas of Concern. More...
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Can toxic algae result in drinking water advisories in Wisconsin? Probably not. But that doesn't mean Wisconsin's waters are free of toxic algae blooms. More...
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The story of improving Great Lakes water levels can be discerned in the things unheard this summer -- like complaints. More...
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Hobby beekeepers in the Great Lakes region have fewer hives this summer after the winter's record cold killed thousands of the insects. More...
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For over 300 years, scholars, mariners, divers and amateur historians have debated the fate of Rene-Robert Cavalier, Sieur de La Salle's wooden sailing vessel, Le Griffon, in 1679. More...
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Experts with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will be in Conneaut, Ohio this month to gauge its sea lamprey population. More...
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Several hundred giant freighters slip through the St. Lawrence Seaway every year. They're guided by vessel traffic controllers from a squat building on top of the Eisenhower Lock in Massena, N.Y. More...
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Municipal politicians in a region of Ontario that is home to one of the world's largest nuclear power plants violated provincial law by holding secret meetings over the storage of radioactive waste, an outside investigation has found. More...
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More than 50 anglers navigated Lake Erie in an armada of charter boats Wednesday morning followed by a fish fry. The occasion was the Great Lakes Experience Charter Fishing Day, held annually to promote fishing and Great Lakes tourism in Chautauqua, Erie and Niagara counties. More...
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Toledo's recent bout with poisoned drinking water should serve as a huge wake-up call to Michigan to take seriously the link between factory farming, water pollution and public health. More...