Great Lakes

The 2021 Great Lakes shipping season started Wednesday. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opened the Poe Lock in Sault Ste. Marie at Noon. That’s 12 hours…

John Janssen remembers the moment he realized Lake Michigan was about to change.It was a September day in 1990 and he was diving looking for sculpin — an…

The U.S. Coast Guard is breaking up ice that’s thinner than usual on northern Michigan’s lakes and rivers.Coast Guard Director of Vessel Services Mark…

The few full-timers left working as commercial fishers in Michigan received good news this month amid a tumultuous year for the industry.Michigan’s…

In a scathing letter, several Michigan legislators urged the state Department of Natural Resources to renew all commercial fishing licenses and permits…

Grand Traverse Bay and inland lakes across Michigan, like Lake Leelanau and Torch Lake, will be ice-free by the end of the century if carbon emissions…

At a lock and dam site in the suburbs of Chicago, there’s a plan to build a set of booby traps to keep invasive carp from reaching the Great Lakes. It…