Great Lakes News

Visitors to Ludington State Park will soon have more to explore. Michigan’s DNR has announced that 100 acres of sand dunes, wetlands and forests formerly owned by a Michigan-based mining…

Indiana’s most-visited site, with 3.5 million visitors annually, is now a national park — and it’s right on the shores of Lake Michigan. The 15,000-acre Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore was…

Reed Yacht Sales has been appointed the exclusive Great Lakes dealer for North Coast Boats — a premier fishing and recreational boatbuilder based in Bristol, Rhode Island. Reed Yacht Sales…

A panel will oversee the construction of the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline between Lake Huron and Lake Michigan in the Straits of Mackinac, as Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder signed a…

The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation has announced that part of Horse Island will be officially protected government land, becoming part of the Harbor Battlefield…

Indiana will receive more than $400,000 from the EPA to work on improving water quality in Lake Erie’s western basin. Waterways in six northeastern Indiana counties feed into Lake Erie’s…

Hiawatha National Forest Research Natural Area in Michigan's Upper Peninsula now has 11.25 additional acres of shoreline along Lake Michigan. The land was transferred from The Conservation Fund to the…

The spine of a sunken ship buried in sand is visible again. Researches first thought it was the remains of the LC Woodruff, which sank in Lake Michigan in November…

As part of the Healthy Lake Erie Fund, the State Controlling Board, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency approved $10 million to help clean…

President Trump has signed America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 into law. The piece of legislation includes the Water Resources Development Act of 2018 and provides funding for infrastructure projects,…