EMPIRE, MI -- Wildlife photographer Thomas Gerndt was watching the sunset dip into Lake Michigan when a friend pointed out ...

The crash happened in 1959, despite advanced navigational equipment and efforts to improve safety on the lakes.

Photographer David Zurick’s 'Third Coast' celebrates the Great Lakes’ 4,500-mile shoreline, which covers more distance than ...

The fish are prized table fare and important to tribal commercial fishers, but their numbers are shrinking, particularly in ...

Discovery Cruises, leaving from Lake St. Clair Metropark, begin Friday. Speakers talk about everything from shipwrecks to ...

As U.S. butterfly populations face declines, the John Ball Zoo has launched a program to save these insects in a race against extinction.

The legislation directs the U.S. Coast Guard to provide a new heavy icebreaker for the Great Lakes and to evaluate the existing fleet.

The Great Lakes piping plover recovery effort has been ongoing since the mid-1980s when the population got as low as a dozen ...

Yet, in action, the conservation of the Great Lakes and their abundant natural resources has been ultimately unsuccessful, ...

Swimming is most comfortable in lake waters at about 70 degrees, according to Swimoutlet.com. While scattered thunderstorms are predicted across the state on July 4th and throughout the weekend, ...

Beneath the hype, the region faces a host of both potential and very real climate-related problems. Many of these relate to ...