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Great Lake enthusiasts who want to capture the essence of Lake Erie life digitally -- or on film -- can enter the Ohio Lake Erie Commission 2014 Life on Lake Erie photo contest. More...

The Eisenhower and Snell Locks at Massena, N.Y. are part of the plan for moving 50 General Electric railroad locomotives from a Lake Erie terminal through the Seaway to their destination of Mozambique in West Africa. More...

A 16-year-old girl who ended a swim across Lake Erie earlier than planned said she intends to finish the swim later this summer. More...

Zebra mussels, quagga mussels got here in ships' ballast tanks. Can we stop the next invasion? More...

Grants totaling up to $4.5 million to improve Great Lakes water quality are available to cities on the lakes' shorelines. More...

Freshwater drum are coming on strong in southern Lake Michigan. More...

A cursory glance at a road map suggests that a traveler who persists in driving west on U.S. 10 from this Lake Michigan harbor town will get very, very wet. But there is a treat in store for travelers who are interested in exploring a piece of floating history, or just in cutting hours off the drive around Lake Michigan to Wisconsin. More...

More than a decade after its prized chinook salmon crashed, Lake Huron is fertile fishing territory once more, with fast-growing populations of native species such as walleye and lake trout, biologists say. More...

The newly passed Water Resources Reform and Development Act, which seeks to boost funding for harbor projects, will help reduce the dredging backlog for Great Lakes ports, including Duluth, Minn. More...

Freshwater drum, better known as sheephead, are a growing fishery on southern Lake Michigan. More...

A harbor pool to facilitate swimming in the St. Lawrence river near Montreal has been proposed, but some worry about water pollution. More...

Tests showed Oregon, Ohio's raw water, which comes from western Lake Erie, had a small but detectable level of microcystin, the toxin produced by microcystis algae. The microcystin concentration of 1.0 parts per billion is five times lower than a 5.0 ppb concentration that would put plant operators on high alert. More...

In the ongoing effort to clean up the Great Lakes, the Canadian government is committing new funding worth $418,000 to four projects around the St.Clair River in southwestern Ontario. More...

Enbridge is in the process of replacing its infamous oil pipeline known as Line 6B, the line that ruptured near Talmadge Creek in 2010, dumping crude oil which reached the Kalamazoo River. More...

The Essex Region Conservation Area has received $138,000 to be used to improve conditions for fish and wildlife habitat and to help improve water quality within some priority watersheds of the Detroit River. More...

Global warming is not the reason why Chicago's 1800s-era sewer system occasionally floods people's basements, the culprits are the age of Chicago's sewer system and the city's tremendous population growth since the 1800s. More...

Health and environmental officials in Ohio's coastal counties continue to refine their methods for monitoring bacteria in the water at Lake Erie beaches. More...

The federal migratory bird hunting stamp (also known as the Duck Stamp) can now be purchased online! The online purchasing option is part of a partnership between the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Federal Duck Stamp Office, designed to make the Duck Stamp more readily available and increase participation in this successful wetland conservation program. More...

A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service assessment crew will survey the Muskegon River in Muskegon County, Mich., this summer to determine how many sea lampreys are in the river. More...

On Oct. 7, 1902, the schooner Ann Maria sunk near Kincardine, Ont., weighed down by a load of coal from a Lake Erie port. More...

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is calling for the Environmental Protection Agency to add microbeads to their list of Great Lakes contaminants. More...

NOAA's Lake Erie Harmful Algae Bloom Bulletin for July 22 finds, for the first time this summer, a cyanobacteria bloom that has intensified this last week near the Maumee River. The University of Toledo confirmed the presence of the toxic algae Mycrosystis. More...

When five-inch storms drench Chicago in a 12-hour window, the Chicago River is reversed away from the Mississippi Basin and into Lake Michigan, shutting down the beach for three days and tainting Goose Island Beer Company's most important resource. More...

An environmentally advanced Canadian ship that will transport grain and iron ore on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway was christened Thursday in Hamilton Harbour outside St. Catharines, Ontario. More...

Over the last couple of weeks of winter and early spring an alarming number of swans were observed floating dead in some of the remaining open water patches of the Lake Erie Islands and Catawba More...