Lake Michigan

One minute David Holtfreter was kayaking on Lake Michigan; the next he was in the water, fighting for his life. A fisherman saw David struggling from the shore and swam out about 200 yards to rescue him. But in the rescue commotion that followed, David wasn’t able to give the stranger a proper “thank you.”

Two catastrophes occurred 141-years ago this week on Little Traverse Bay.

One family’s visit to a famous Indiana sand dune turns into a wild tale of a missing boy and mysterious tunnels.

Bridge Michigan's Kelly House talks to IPR about how new owners are using a federal grant to study what an emissions-free Badger would look like.

Jim Dreyer didn’t used to be the kind of person who would end up with a nickname like 'The Shark.'

We think of the Great Lakes as shark-free, but as legend has it, a young boy named George Lawson was attacked by a shark while swimming in Lake Michigan near Chicago in 1955. Is this story true or just a bunch of bull shark?

Wave energy converters use the movement of the water to generate electricity. A research team from the University of Michigan will spend the next couple years developing a prototype to install in the waters off the island.

Donna Martino stuck a photograph from the newspaper of a handsome kayaker on her fridge. A few months later, Donna matched with the guy on a dating website, and they decided to go out. This story is about what happens when two strangers take a chance on each other.

Iceland has figured out how to use almost 100% of every fish caught – not just the filet. By making things like durable leather, beauty products, and skin graft bandages, it’s increased the value of an Atlantic cod from about $15 to over $5,000. Can this approach help the struggling Great Lakes fishery?

Measuring in at just eight inches long, the juvenile lake sturgeon caught by researchers from the Grand Rapids Public Museum in September 2022 hardly looked formidable.