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Duluth, Minnesota – At its Annual Meeting, held this week on the shores of Lake Superior in Duluth, Minnesota, the Great Lakes Commission (GLC) passed

Canada could be an attractive destination for highly educated people from abroad who can't afford a new $100,000 H-1B U.S. visa

State government is two weeks away from a partial shutdown with still no budget deal between Governor Gretchen Whitmer and the Legislature.

In the early 1800s, a group of politicians decided part of the Ohio border should move farther north. It started a decades-long border fight between Michigan and Ohio. There were winners. There were losers. And in the end, it shaped the states as we know them.

By Maya Moore 
If Congress approves President Donald Trump’s proposal to cut hundreds of millions of dollars from the operations and science budget of the U.S. Geological Survey, the scale and intensity of Great Lakes environmental restoration will be significantly diminished, experts say.   Among the programs that could be dismantled entirely is the 70-year-old program to control sea lampreys, an exotic parasitic fish that attacks game fish and has caused billions of dollars in damage to Great Lakes fisheries.

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he programs focus on environmental education. In some communities, they are one of very few afternoon and summer childcare options.

he money was slotted for stream restoration and farmland preservation across the region.

ongress rescinded federal funding already allocated to public broadcasting. For IPR, it's a $300,000 budget hit. Still, our leader says we have reasons to be optimistic.

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.

As Congress closes the door on us, we plan to open ours more widely to you and the rest of our neighbors.

Munson Healthcare officials say almost two thirds of their payments come from Medicaid.

The Traverse City nonprofit runs programs in schools that often don't have other free summer or after-school options.