3 Plan To Paddle Board Across Lake Michigan
Two brothers and a friend are planning a more than 80-mile crossing of Lake Michigan by sharing time on a paddle board.
Watch CBS News
Two brothers and a friend are planning a more than 80-mile crossing of Lake Michigan by sharing time on a paddle board.
A wooden beam that has long been the focus of the search for a 17th century shipwreck in northern Lake Michigan may have come from the elusive Griffin or some other ship, archaeologists said Wednesday.
Boaters should be on the lookout for large trees, logs and other debris let loose into Michigan waterways in part by spring flooding, the U.S. Coast Guard has warned.
Federal experts will discuss the causes and potential consequences of low Great Lakes water levels during a Thursday seminar in Ann Arbor that also will be broadcast on the Web.
A 'boatload of data' will be collected during the third and final research season of Grand Valley State University's Michigan Alternative and Renewable Energy Center's offshore wind assessment.
Officials say some Asian carp probably have found their way into the Great Lakes, but there's still time to stop the dreaded invaders from becoming established and unraveling food chains that support a $7 billion fishing industry and sensitive ecosystems.
Water levels across most of the Great Lakes are likely to remain well below average for the next six months, posing continued hardships for commercial vessels and tourist towns that cater to recreational boaters.
Gov. Rick Snyder signed legislation earlier this week creating a $21 million program to deepen Michigan harbors that could become impassable to boats as parts of the Great Lakes hover near historically low levels.
Plans are moving forward for a hiking and biking trail from Belle Isle park in Detroit to Ironwood on the Wisconsin boundary in the western Upper Peninsula.
Several varieties of Asian carp have infested the Mississippi River and many of its tributaries.
An ice island that's formed off Michigan's northern Lower Peninsula is attracting attention.
The effectiveness of a long-term plan to heal the ailing Great Lakes could be marred by federal spending cuts, which also could make it harder to cope with low water levels that threaten the region's economy.
Gov. Rick Snyder will call for spending $11 million this year to dredge Michigan harbors in danger of losing their connections to open water because of low Great Lakes levels.
The U.S. Coast Guard is warning that warmer temperatures over the next few days are likely to cause unsafe ice conditions on Lake Erie and the other Great Lakes.
Officials say several cabins have been destroyed and a firefighter hurt in a blaze at a resort in southwestern Michigan.
Government planners from Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin anticipate being among those meeting this week to work on plans for a proposed 1,640-mile trail network around Lake Michigan.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says water levels on Lakes Michigan and Huron are nearly at record low levels because of drought and evaporation.
Superstorm Sandy is so vast it's kicking up near record-high waves of 20 feet out on Lake Michigan, several hundred miles from the center of the storm that's pounding the East Coast.
Lake Michigan water levels are down 11 inches from 2011, and record low levels could be ahead if the drought persists.
The U.S. Coast Guard says crews searching Lake Michigan for two missing boaters have found a body and a debris field in the waters off West Michigan.
Currents and exhaustion have kept a Michigan couple from finishing a planned 50-mile swim across Lake Michigan to raise awareness about postpartum depression.
A Michigan couple planning to swim 50 miles across Lake Michigan to raise awareness about postpartum depression have pushed back their start because of bad weather.
Two Illinois men and a man from Ohio drowned in Lake Michigan over the weekend as high waves swept Michigan's west coast.
The crews of more than 350 yachts are preparing to set sail in this year's Chicago-to-Mackinac Island race, a Lake Michigan tradition that's more than a century old.
Authorities say a 3-year-old girl drowned at a Lake Michigan beach in southwestern Michigan.
