A 740-foot Great Lakes freighter carrying grain ran aground on the St. Clair River near Sarnia. The Algoma Equinox was headed to Baie-Comeau, Quebec, when it became grounded Tuesday, July 21, ...

National Weather Service offices across the Great Lakes region have issued Beach Hazards Statements covering shorelines on ...

In a time of political polarization, it’s easy to forget that the vast majority of Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs – ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. EPA and the City of Buffalo celebrated the completion of an innovative $13.4 million fish passage project.

Smoke from Canadian wildfires is triggering air quality alerts across 18 states, with hazardous conditions in parts of ...

Here's a look at the water temperatures across the Great Lakes now. The hot weather last week has pretty well taken care of ...

Heat waves and cold spells are part of life on the Great Lakes. But new research from the University of Michigan shows that is true today in a fundamentally different way than it was even 30 years ago ...

Lake Michigan, pictured here in December 2022, had 0.1 percent ice cover on Jan. 1, 2024. Kamil Krzaczynski / AFP via Getty Images The Great Lakes kicked off 2024 with the lowest amount of ice cover ...

Nearly 70 years ago, a moonshot project contained the threat of sea lampreys. Could another moonshot save the Great Lakes ...

I recently came back from sailing the Great Lakes on Viking’s unique Niagara & the Great Lakes expedition cruise itinerary, which began in Milwaukee, sailing four of the five Great Lakes and ...

It’s the middle of January, and the Great Lakes are basically ice-free. Ice has been slow to form this year, with only 3.2% of the lakes covered as of Jan. 19. That's a near-record low, and roughly 18 ...

The last bits of winter snow and ice in the Great Lakes melted in late May, according to a NOAA-GLSEA (Great Lakes Surface Environmental Analysis) tracker that uses satellite data to produce real-time ...