The Trump administration is planning a mass layoff of federal employees who conduct research of Great Lakes fisheries.

Business and community leaders will gather at Dow Diamond on Oct. 29 to explore solutions for regional economic growth ...

The Great Lakes National Cemetery in Holly, Michigan, said it wasn't able to coordinate a headstone cleaning event on ...

Along the southern shoreline of the Upper Peninsula on Lake Michigan, south to Charlevoix, and to Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, a ...

Michigan’s beautiful fall color display is expected to take a hit later today when high wind gusts sweep in along with a cold ...

Chicago scientists are on the front lines, dedicating their time to finding solutions for the environmental threats facing ...

A Michigan-based family-owned breakfast and lunch restaurant with two other locations has opened a third along the Grand ...

The Great Lakes are seeing near-record warm water temperatures right now, which means there’s a higher chance for lake effect ...

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Microplastics are everywhere: in our water, our food and even our bodies.  At under 5mm in size – smaller than a pencil ...

As whitefish disappear from the lower Great Lakes, scientists are hatching emergency rescue plans. One idea: Taking fish out of the lakes and raising them indefinitely in ponds for safekeeping.

Invasive mussels that blanket the depths of lakes Huron and Michigan have pushed whitefish to the brink of extinction. What ...