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The city of Duluth is looking at an estimated $9 million price tag to repair and improve the city’s lakeside trail after a pair of storms eroded rock, shifted earth and flipped boardwalk pieces. Read the full story by the Bemidji Pioneer. View the full article

Midges are back along the shores of Lake Erie, clinging to gas pumps, cars, your hair, just about anything. Read the full story by the Cleveland Plain Dealer. View the full article

The Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor saw a slight decline in shipments during the first quarter of 2018, but the deepwater port on Lake Michigan is coming off the highest three-year total in its 57-year history. Read the full story by the Northwest Indiana Times. View the full article

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder’s administration is in talks with Enbridge Energy Inc. and other companies to build a shared utility corridor beneath the Straits of Mackinac that could house a replacement Line 5 oil pipeline and other infrastructure. Read the full story by the Detroit News. View the full article

In a decision that further erodes the Great Lakes Compact, Wisconsin regulators are supporting a Wisconsin city’s bid to draw an annual average of 7 million gallons a day of water from Lake Michigan and sluice much of it to an area that’s in the Mississippi River’s watershed. Read the full story by the Cleveland Plain Dealer. View the full article

Brooks, rivers, ponds, and other bodies of water around Northeast Ohio all feed into Lake Erie. As storm water flows into Cleveland’s east side watersheds—an area of land that collects the water on its way to Lake Erie—it also collects anything thrown into storm drains. Groups like the Doan Brook Watershed Partnership want residents to keep in mind that Lake Erie begins on their streets, no matter how far from the shores they are. Read the full story by FreshWater. View the full article

Wisconsin officials have sought to placate other states that have raised concerns over the decision to allow Racine to tap Lake Michigan to supply the Foxconn Technology Group manufacturing complex. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. View the full article

Within the lifetime of today’s newborn, Great Lakes water will be piped to the Colorado basin to relieve a region that by midcentury will be in the throes of an unimaginable 50-year megadrought. Read the full story by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. View the full article

Every spring, sturgeon leave Black Lake in the northeast of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula and swim up the Black River to spawn. And every spring, poachers try to spear these massive fish and take them. Every year for two decades now, a group called Sturgeon for Tomorrow has organized volunteers to camp along this river, stand guard all day and night, and keep poachers away with their constant presence. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press. View the full article

New research out of Michigan State University shows Lake Michigan beach closings have dropped over the past 15 years as E. coli bacteria concentrations have dropped. That time period coincides with the explosion of quagga mussels across the Great Lakes and especially in Lake Michigan. Read the full story by The Detroit Free Press. View the full article

According to Brian McNoldy, a Senior Research Associate at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School, Alberto is the first tropical depression to reach Lake Huron before June 1st since records began in 1851 setting the meteorological world aflutter. Read the full story by The Weather Network. View the full article

The state of Michigan has 35,000 acres of public park land in the lower peninsula designated as dark sky park, much of it along the Great Lakes coasts. Dark sky parks safeguard one of contemporary humanity’s most overlooked sources of imagination and inspiration: natural darkness, and our access to it on public lands by night. Read the full story by Detroit Public TV. View the full article

The Great Lakes Research Consortium, a collaboration of some 27 universities and colleges in New York and Ontario, is commissioning five projects to address harmful algal blooms in 12 New York lakes, and other environmental issues. Read the full story by WXXI – Rochester, NY. View the full article

A new study on ballast water discharge has found Great Lakes ships are moving non-native species from the lower lakes to western Lake Superior. Study authors say the research provides clear evidence of the transport of organisms through ships’ ballast water tanks while the shipping industry contends more research is needed to better understand the potential impacts of their movement. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio. View the full article

Faulty meters are one of the reasons the city can’t account for at least 40 percent of the water it buys from the Great Lakes Water Authority, and Mayor Karen Weaver has pushed to use part of the $100 million set aside by Congress for Flint water system improvements for meter replacements. Read the full story by MLive. View the full article

The heavy lift cargo ship Palabora completed its journey to Michigan’s L’Anse Bay on Lake Superior all the way from Italy Thursday afternoon, carrying 10 reciprocating internal combustion engines for local power stations. Read and view the full story by WLUC Negaunee. View the full article

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is looking to shore up the breakwater protecting the Port of Indiana-Burns Harbor this summer, and the Indiana Department of Environmental Management is holding a public comment period on the project through June 9. Read the full story by The Northwest Indiana Times. View the full article

The Portage, Maumee, and Sandusky rivers in Ohio are known as spawning locations for both walleye and white bass, but other species, including longnose gar and channel catfish, also make use of the rivers. Read the full story by The Toledo Blade. View the full article

Students from Belle River Elementary School in Marine City, MI got a chance to watch a survey crew from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at work in lower Lake Huron, one of the top spawning spots for lake sturgeon in the Great Lakes. Read the full story by The Times Herald. View the full article

Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow discusses the status of the Soo Locks and efforts to improve them, Enbridge Energy’s Line 5 oil and gas pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac, and the status of the U.S. Farm Bill with WDET’s Stephen Henderson. Read and listen to the full story by WDET-Detroit. View the full article

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is once again taking steps to remove the gray wolf from the endangered species list, beginning the process of delisting gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region. Read and listen to the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio. View the full article

Nearly $50 million is earmarked this year to keep Asian carp out of the Great Lakes, according the 2018 action plan just released by the Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee, and the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative is providing $21 million of the funding. Read the full story by the Door County Pulse. View the full article

Hundreds of families occupy homes within a few blocks of the toxic waste site in upstate New York near the Niagara River, which was temporarily evacuated in 1979, after nearly 22,000 tons of dangerous chemicals were found. Read the full story by The Buffalo News. View the full article

After months of negotiations, the Moroun family and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have reached a tentative agreement on the cleanup and development of the massive McLouth Steel site in Downriver Trenton, Michigan. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press. View the full article

To the Ojibwe people, Lake Superior is “Gichigamiing”—the “great water” or “sea.” The Ojibwe have a culturally and historically significant relationship to Gichigamiing going back hundreds of years, when they first migrated to the region. Read the full story by Growler. View the full article