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The Eisenhower and Snell Locks at Massena, N.Y. are part of the plan for moving 50 General Electric railroad locomotives from a Lake Erie terminal through the Seaway to their destination of Mozambique in West Africa. More...

Great Lake enthusiasts who want to capture the essence of Lake Erie life digitally -- or on film -- can enter the Ohio Lake Erie Commission 2014 Life on Lake Erie photo contest. More...

Orange signs warning of toxic algae went up along Lake Erie on Thursday -- the first of the summer. More...

More than a decade after its prized chinook salmon crashed, Lake Huron is fertile fishing territory once more, with fast-growing populations of native species such as walleye and lake trout, biologists say. More...

A cursory glance at a road map suggests that a traveler who persists in driving west on U.S. 10 from this Lake Michigan harbor town will get very, very wet. But there is a treat in store for travelers who are interested in exploring a piece of floating history, or just in cutting hours off the drive around Lake Michigan to Wisconsin. More...

Freshwater drum are coming on strong in southern Lake Michigan. More...

Grants totaling up to $4.5 million to improve Great Lakes water quality are available to cities on the lakes' shorelines. More...

Zebra mussels, quagga mussels got here in ships' ballast tanks. Can we stop the next invasion? More...

In the ongoing effort to clean up the Great Lakes, the Canadian government is committing new funding worth $418,000 to four projects around the St.Clair River in southwestern Ontario. More...

Tests showed Oregon, Ohio's raw water, which comes from western Lake Erie, had a small but detectable level of microcystin, the toxin produced by microcystis algae. The microcystin concentration of 1.0 parts per billion is five times lower than a 5.0 ppb concentration that would put plant operators on high alert. More...

A harbor pool to facilitate swimming in the St. Lawrence river near Montreal has been proposed, but some worry about water pollution. More...

Freshwater drum, better known as sheephead, are a growing fishery on southern Lake Michigan. More...

The newly passed Water Resources Reform and Development Act, which seeks to boost funding for harbor projects, will help reduce the dredging backlog for Great Lakes ports, including Duluth, Minn. More...

The federal migratory bird hunting stamp (also known as the Duck Stamp) can now be purchased online! The online purchasing option is part of a partnership between the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Federal Duck Stamp Office, designed to make the Duck Stamp more readily available and increase participation in this successful wetland conservation program. More...

Health and environmental officials in Ohio's coastal counties continue to refine their methods for monitoring bacteria in the water at Lake Erie beaches. More...

Global warming is not the reason why Chicago's 1800s-era sewer system occasionally floods people's basements, the culprits are the age of Chicago's sewer system and the city's tremendous population growth since the 1800s. More...

The Essex Region Conservation Area has received $138,000 to be used to improve conditions for fish and wildlife habitat and to help improve water quality within some priority watersheds of the Detroit River. More...

Enbridge is in the process of replacing its infamous oil pipeline known as Line 6B, the line that ruptured near Talmadge Creek in 2010, dumping crude oil which reached the Kalamazoo River. More...

When five-inch storms drench Chicago in a 12-hour window, the Chicago River is reversed away from the Mississippi Basin and into Lake Michigan, shutting down the beach for three days and tainting Goose Island Beer Company's most important resource. More...

NOAA's Lake Erie Harmful Algae Bloom Bulletin for July 22 finds, for the first time this summer, a cyanobacteria bloom that has intensified this last week near the Maumee River. The University of Toledo confirmed the presence of the toxic algae Mycrosystis. More...

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is calling for the Environmental Protection Agency to add microbeads to their list of Great Lakes contaminants. More...

On Oct. 7, 1902, the schooner Ann Maria sunk near Kincardine, Ont., weighed down by a load of coal from a Lake Erie port. More...

A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service assessment crew will survey the Muskegon River in Muskegon County, Mich., this summer to determine how many sea lampreys are in the river. More...

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is calling for the Environmental Protection Agency to add microbeads to their list of Great Lakes contaminants. If added, the EPA would likely address the problem in their upcoming action plan. A move that Save The River is thankful for. More...

On the dark night of October 7, 1902, the schooner, Ann Maria, sunk just off Kincardine's harbour, weighed down by a load of coal from a Lake Erie port for the Kincardine salt block. More...