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Looking to swim in one of Wisconsin's Great Lakes? Here's how warm Lake Michigan and Lake Superior are as of mid-July.
"Averaging 279 feet in depth, the lake reaches 925 feet at its deepest point," according to the Great Lakes Commission. The coldest lake is Lake Superior, with its warmest water temperature of 66.6 ...
County health departments routinely collect water samples to test for bacteria levels to ensure water is safe for swimming.
Chinook salmon and steelhead eggs are collected at the Little Manistee River site in northern Michigan. The new barrier will ...
The controversial effort to construct a new tunnel for an oil and gas pipeline under the Great Lakes requires permissions for ...
Amid a population crash of Michigan’s staple lake whitefish, fisheries experts told regulators that more research needs to be done to discover how to stem the scourge of invasive mussels. Without that ...
Luis M. Acevedo Soto, a summer intern for the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary (TBNMS), says his favorite part of Alpena ...
An Anishinaabe historian will give a free lecture on the Great Lakes islands that were prominent for fishing, living and ...
The recently discovered Western Reserve wreck is providing lessons about shipbuilding, underwater archaeology and the ...
Public comment on Enbridge Energy’s Line 5 tunnel project in the Straits of Mackinac is now open and will run until Aug 29.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service personnel will soon apply lampricides to the Upper Manistique River tributaries in Alger, Luce ...
The warnings affected lakes in seven states and ocean beaches in two states as conditions could be "life-threatening." ...