This section of the Little Traverse Wheelway has been closed since 2019 due to erosion that caused some of it to collapse in ...

Park trails along Lake Michigan’s shoreline in Michigan and Wisconsin are eroding because of more frequent extreme precipitation events and increased foot traffic from visitors in undesignated ...

Lake Pepin, the largest naturally occurring lake on the Mississippi River, is a beloved resource. But it’s got a big problem: Massive amounts of sediment are eroding from stream banks, ...

Lake Michigan is at the warmest temperature for Oct. 9 dating back 30 years. The dataset for good, high resolution, surface water temperatures dates back to 1995. The year 1995 finally had satellites ...

Muskegon Lake, between Lake Michigan and the city that bears its name, has been removed from a U.S. and Canadian list of most polluted sites after decades of cleanup efforts and community engagement, ...

CASCO TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Two people were rescued from a sinking boat in Lake Michigan Sunday, officials say. It happened Sunday afternoon off the shore of the Casco Township Nature Preserve, ...

CHIAGO (WLS) -- Chicago police are conducting a death investigation after a male body was pulled from Lake Michigan Thursday on the city's South Side. Chicago police said he was found in the water ...

The 37-year-old man said the current pulled him out, and he was unable to swim back, according to the Racine County Sheriff's Office. A 37-year-old Racine man was rescued from Lake Michigan on Oct. 3 ...

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Dual-purpose tugboats were built to break ice in the winter and assist ships in warmer seasons. The tugboat Arctic was built in Manitowoc in 1881 to serve the Goodrich Transportation Company. After ...