Researchers are working on a tool that may be able to forecast whether a beach will be unsafe for swimming because of high levels of bacteria.
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By Bob Allen
New research this fall will try to find a better way to predict dangerous currents in the Great Lakes. The number of deaths attributed to rip currents has been rising each of the last few summers.
Using...
A group of 25 U.S. Senators sent a letter to the White House this week urging the Obama administration to spend more on dredging federal harbors. The federal...
It was a deadly weekend on the Great Lakes. Seven people drowned, including three in Lake Michigan.
Kevin Schlake, 40, of Cincinnati, died Sunday after swimming at...
A 110-foot barge and a 38-foot tugboat have sunk in Lake Huron, near the city of Port Huron. The barge is leaking diesel fuel.
“The vessel has between 1,...
When summer heats-up, people head to the shore of Lake Michigan where temperatures can be noticeably cooler.
“There have been times in May, for example, that...
For the first time, evidence of invasive Asian Carp has been found in Michigan waters near Toledo. DNA samples from Big Head and Silver Carp were taken in Lake Erie near...
A newly released Canadian study concludes Asian would survive and...
Negotiations are underway this summer to try and break an impasse over legislation that would make it easier for developers to build on sand dunes along the Great Lakes shoreline...
Property owners on the Great Lakes can now groom their beaches without permission from the state. The governor has signed a law. Environmental groups say it will hurt...
