Lake Champlain is more than 16 times smaller than Lake Ontario, the smallest Great Lake. But in 1998, Congress designated Lake Champlain as the sixth Great Lake, teeing off a historical and cultural fight over which lakes can really call themselves Great.
London Free Press
A Free Press reader says London needs to speed up the conversion of commercial space into residential space, which should bring more people downtown.
Interlochen Public Radio
Activists said the facility, now open as an immigration detention center, is a profit-driven system that exploits vulnerable communities and called for its closure.
Interlochen Public Radio
Traverse City Facebook groups are being flooded by fake real estate listings, featuring photos of real properties and luring in renters with affordable prices.
London Free Press
Instead of whining into our beer, expecting someone else to restore the status quo, let's start thinking of alternatives.
Interlochen Public Radio
Cougars are making a comeback. The iconic wildcat hasn’t had a breeding population in the Great Lakes states since the early 1900s, but now they’re moving east. Experts say they could be back soon. Some people swear they already are.
London Free Press
When their flip-clock radios woke them on April Fools' Day 50 years ago, many Canadians might have thought they'd entered an alternate universe.
Great Lakes Commission
The city of Rochester Hills, Michigan, was awarded $300,000 in funding for habitat restoration. The funds will allow the city to use herbicide, mechanical removal, and prescribed fire methods to […]