lakes

Waste from the energy-producing digester was at the center of the disagreement.

The H. Lee White Maritime Museum and New York Sea Grant have announced the addition of an educational exhibit featuring the New York Great Lakes Piping Plover Recovery Program to […]

On May 7, 1965, the SS Cedarville sank beneath the waters of the Straits of Mackinac after a collision just one mile east of the Mackinac Bridge. The freighter plied […]

Lake trout in some northern Ontario lakes aren’t as big as they used to be, and new findings have shown that when lake trout consume rainbow smelt it can lead to […]

The clock will start on public comment at the end of May, but with half as much time — 30 days instead of 60.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer says face time with Trump, including a now-famously awkward Oval Office encounter, was worth it to win 21 new fighter jets in Macomb County.

Governor Pritzker of Illinois said he’s still awaiting written guarantees that the federal government will fund the $1.15 billion project to block invasive carp from reaching the Great Lakes. The […]

The Trump administration’s new trade rules aimed at penalizing operators of Chinese-built ships and boosting domestic shipbuilding appear to have spared the Great Lakes shipping industry from fees on ships […]

Workers first discovered the spill last week. Remediation work is ongoing.

Minnesota and Wisconsin are bitter rivals at just about everything. So in 2019, when Wisconsin’s secretary of tourism claimed Wisconsin had more lakes than Minnesota, the embers of an age-old debate were stoked. Minnesota is known as the “Land of 10,000 Lakes”, but does Wisconsin really have more?

Many of the shallow waterways of the Great Lakes have only been surveyed by researchers in waders using nets and traps. Very few have been explored by skilled underwater photographers, […]

This year, Chicago breaks ground on a pipeline that will bring water from the Great Lakes to some suburbs whose groundwater is running dry.  Read the full story by WBUR […]