Victory Cruise Lines is relaunching in April with Great Lakes and Canada cruises. Those include All 5 Great Lakes cruises, which visit Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario and Superior, sailing from […]

Victory Cruise Lines is relaunching in April with Great Lakes and Canada cruises. Those include All 5 Great Lakes cruises, which visit Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario and Superior, sailing from […]

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A cruise ship will visit Toledo, Ohio, next month for the first time since the late 1990s thanks to the efforts of local officials and an auto race that is […]

A cruise ship will visit Toledo, Ohio, next month for the first time since the late 1990s thanks to the efforts of local officials and an auto race that is […]

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A new fishing season started this month, and that means Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources has plans for stocking sport fish in the state’s waters. Read the full story by […]

A new fishing season started this month, and that means Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources has plans for stocking sport fish in the state’s waters. Read the full story by […]

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Last month, a bill was introduced in the New York State Assembly that would grant the Great Lakes and all other bodies of water in New York legal rights to […]

Last month, a bill was introduced in the New York State Assembly that would grant the Great Lakes and all other bodies of water in New York legal rights to […]

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Wind turbines in the Great Lakes have the potential to produce huge amounts of clean energy, but offshore wind has been banned by a moratorium in Ontario since 2011 and […]

Wind turbines in the Great Lakes have the potential to produce huge amounts of clean energy, but offshore wind has been banned by a moratorium in Ontario since 2011 and […]

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Mariners have a busy schedule to keep commerce flowing to the industrial and manufacturing centers in the region, but that doesn’t stop them from celebrating with food and festivities on […]

Mariners have a busy schedule to keep commerce flowing to the industrial and manufacturing centers in the region, but that doesn’t stop them from celebrating with food and festivities on […]

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This year, Chicago breaks ground on a pipeline that will bring water from the Great Lakes to some suburbs whose groundwater is running dry.  Read the full story by WBUR […]

This year, Chicago breaks ground on a pipeline that will bring water from the Great Lakes to some suburbs whose groundwater is running dry.  Read the full story by WBUR […]

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Many of the shallow waterways of the Great Lakes have only been surveyed by researchers in waders using nets and traps. Very few have been explored by skilled underwater photographers, […]

Many of the shallow waterways of the Great Lakes have only been surveyed by researchers in waders using nets and traps. Very few have been explored by skilled underwater photographers, […]

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The Trump administration’s new trade rules aimed at penalizing operators of Chinese-built ships and boosting domestic shipbuilding appear to have spared the Great Lakes shipping industry from fees on ships […]

The Trump administration’s new trade rules aimed at penalizing operators of Chinese-built ships and boosting domestic shipbuilding appear to have spared the Great Lakes shipping industry from fees on ships […]

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Governor Pritzker of Illinois said he’s still awaiting written guarantees that the federal government will fund the $1.15 billion project to block invasive carp from reaching the Great Lakes. The […]

Governor Pritzker of Illinois said he’s still awaiting written guarantees that the federal government will fund the $1.15 billion project to block invasive carp from reaching the Great Lakes. The […]

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