Great Lakes News

A five-year plan has been announced in regards to the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative through the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) called the GLRI Action Plan III. The new plan will…

Muskegon Lake in Muskegon, Michigan, and Torch Lake, in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (not to be confused with the famous lake in Antrim County) — both official Areas of Concern (AOC)…

In July, the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society (GLSHS) announced that it had discovered a century-old shipwreck off the Keweenaw Peninsula in Lake Superior. The steamer, S.R. Kirby, sank near…

Residents in Cayuga, Jefferson, Monroe, Niagara, Orleans, Oswego, St. Lawrence and Wayne counties can now apply for assistance in the damages their property may have sustained following a year of…

Three organizations around the Great Lakes have teamed up to reduce the number of invasive zebra and quagga mussels in the water. The Great Lakes Commission, International Joint Commission and…

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has provided $3.7 million in Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) funds to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the removal of stamp sands…

Gary Burrell, cofounder of Garmin, passed away on June 12 at the age of 81. Burrell retired from Garmin in 2002 and continued to serve as Garmin’s co-chairman until 2004…

For 17 years, Capt. James “Jimmer” Kennedy has managed operations for five 24-hour TowBoatUS on-water assistance ports in Ohio. Capt. Kennedy is now the owner of the local company homeported…

A new project launched by environmental group Georgian Bay Forever in collaboration with the University of Toronto aims to reduce microfibers released into Lake Huron’s Georgian Bay. The project, called…

Erosion has created a larger than normal opening underneath the two Enbridge Line 5 pipelines that run beneath the Straits of Mackinac; however, according to a statement by Enbridge, while…