EPA Creates Great Lakes Protection Advisory Board
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is creating a board to advise federal agencies carrying out two wide-ranging programs to protect the Great Lakes.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is creating a board to advise federal agencies carrying out two wide-ranging programs to protect the Great Lakes.
The Michigan Senate is preparing to vote on whether to abolish a state program that regulates what landowners can do with the vegetation.
The U.S. Coast Guard says a large ship has run aground in Lake Michigan near Manistee.
A U.S.-Canadian advisory panel wound up a five-year study this week with a recommendation against large-scale engineering projects to prevent swings in Great Lakes water levels, saying people across the region should adapt to nature's ups and downs.
Sheriff's deputies in southwest Michigan say two people had to be rescued from the water, after one fell in while texting and the other tried to rescue her.
An environmental coalition asked candidates to promise if elected to continue an Obama administration program dealing with some of the Great Lakes' most pressing environmental problems, including the invasive species, Asian carp.
Thirty-one members of Congress prodded the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Friday to consider a multi-billion-dollar plan for cutting a Chicago-area link between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River watersheds to stop migration of Asian carp and other invasive species.
A piece of a shipwreck that experts believe is from a schooner that sank 140 years ago has washed up along Lake Michigan at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
Tests performed at the bottom of northern Lake Michigan have provided enough evidence for researchers to recommend an excavation of the site of a shipwreck to determine if it's a French vessel that sank in 1679,
A report says trash that washed up on Lake Michigan beaches in West Michigan in 2008 and 2010 likely came from Milwaukee sewer overflows.
The high-speed Lake Express ferry is making plans for the 2012 season after a year that saw service hampered by engine problems.
A federal panel on Wednesday endorsed the designation of a coal-burning Lake Michigan ferryboat as a national historic landmark, a defeat for opponents unhappy with the vessel's practice of dumping waste ash into the lake.
A provision approved by the U.S. House would allow the nation's last coal-powered steamship to continue dumping waste ash into Lake Michigan after a grace period ends next year.
A sailboat that capsized in a storm during the annual race from Chicago to Mackinac Island, killing two crew members, was not suited for the competition because its sails were too big for its weight, a sailing group says.
The crew of a sailboat that capsized on Lake Michigan during a July storm acted properly and no one is at fault in the mishap that killed two people, a Michigan sheriff said Friday.
A celebration ceremony is planned for the arrival of the research buoy for the Lake Michigan offshore wind assessment study that will be conducted by Grand Valley State University, University of Michigan and Michigan State University.
The plant shut down automatically when two small pieces of metal inside the breaker panel touched, causing a short circuit.
Authorities searching part of Lake Michigan and a shoreline in southwestern Michigan for a woman in her 50s say a body has been found.
Both swimmers who were swept out into Lake Michigan off Saugatuck Dunes State Park on Tuesday have been recovered.
A Wayne State University student's quest to swim Lake Michigan has ended with disappointment - arm pain and rough waters force the swimmer to quit.
The search has been suspended for two swimmers missing since Tuesday afternoon in Lake Michigan.
Ashley St. Andrew hopes her chance to make history won't dry up as she tries to become the first woman to swim across Lake Michigan's mid-section.
Dozens of people waded to shore and two were rescued by helicopter from a tour boat that was damaged by a wave in Lake Michigan near Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
Analysts have discovered more genetic material from Asian carp beyond an electric barrier designed to prevent them from invading the Great Lakes, renewing a debate over the federal government's strategy for protecting the region's waters from the voracious fish
