Piping Plover females are the first to leave the Great Lakes and head south, leaving dad to finish raising the chicks.

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

Epic summer adventure? Try splashing in all five Great Lakes in one day. Here are three routes you can try, including a ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

The recently discovered Western Reserve wreck is providing lessons about shipbuilding, underwater archaeology and the ...