When a township refuses to meet its responsibility to protect a vital natural resource from harm, government has to act.
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The trail will eventually run from the Wisconsin-Illinois border north to the tip of the Door County Peninsula and south along the Green Bay shoreline to the city of Green Bay.
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Political leadership for the separation concept needs to come from the outside the White House and it will have to include key figures in Illinois, Chicago and Indiana.
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Supporters of the measure consider it a step toward freeing people to make their waterfronts more enjoyable, while opponents fear it could lead to loss of fish spawning habitat and revive a debate over people's right to stroll along Great Lakes beaches
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The light station has been closed to the public since August 2008. Officials felt it was important to reopen the station so the public could once again enjoy it.
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The 418-foot destroyer USS Edson, which served during the Cold War and the Vietnam War, is expected to become the centerpiece of a ship museum near Bay City.
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A year from now, the gaping pit where the old Memorial Auditorium once stood will have been transformed into a system of shimmering canals and pedestrian-friendly bridges that developers hope will turn Buffalo's waterfront into a world-class, year-round destination.
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Time appears to have run out on Waukesha's landmark effort to obtain Lake Michigan water by a court-imposed deadline of June 2018 to provide residents with radium-safe drinking water.
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After more than a year of pampering and a 200-mile journey by truck and boat, thousands of young lake trout were set free at a Lake Michigan reef last week.
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International Association of Great Lakes Research conference keynote speaker Gail Krantzberg said the key to progress being found outside science lies in policy.
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A study released this week on Wisconsin's 17 fish hatcheries says it will take $155 million to moderenize them.
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The head of the Council of Canadians has undertaken a public tour to get support for a proposal to have the Great Lakes watershed protected as a public trust.
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Lake Michigan-Huron, hydrologically one lake connected at the Straits of Mackinac, is a foot below its long-term average, according to the Great Lakes Hydraulics and Hydrology Office of the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers.
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The sixth annual Chequamegon Bay Birding & Nature Festival runs through Saturday and is expected to draw birders as well as nature lovers to the breathtaking south shore of Lake Superior.
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After four years and $700,000 in gentle renovations, Michigan's oldest lighthouse, the Ft. Gratiot Light, reopens Saturday.
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Although scientists are aware that the massive ice loss over the past 40 years will affect the ecology of the Great Lakes, they are not completely sure how.
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Enbridge Energy, which operates the pipeline that ruptured in southwest Michigan almost two years ago, plans to replace the entire pipeline, and several landowners are having trouble with the attitudes of land agents who represent the company.
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Project Ojibwa is now a "go," a tugboat on its way to fetch the decommissioned Canadian submarine from Halifax and tow it to Port Burwell. The Ojibwa will become a tourist attraction in the Lake Erie port, joining a select group of Great Lakes centres with museum subs.
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A panel that advises the U.S. and Canadian governments about the Great Lakes will make Lake Erie's excessive phosphorus levels and algae blooms a priority for study over the next three years.
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State officials on Thursday announced plans for the largest land conservation purchase in Wisconsin history - a transaction that protects more than 100 square miles of forest land in four northern counties.
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