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 […]
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The clock will start on public comment at the end of May, but with half as much time — 30 days instead of 60.
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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 […]
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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 […]
Mariners have a busy schedule to keep commerce flowing to the industrial and manufacturing centers in the region, but that doesn’t stop them from celebrating with food and festivities on […]
Wind turbines in the Great Lakes have the potential to produce huge amounts of clean energy, but offshore wind has been banned by a moratorium in Ontario since 2011 and […]