A federal judge on Wednesday blocked Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s attempt to shut down a pipeline segment called Line 5 – which runs beneath a channel linking two of the […]
The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency has approved the changeover to Lake Michigan water for the Pekara, Inverrary and Horatio Gardens neighborhoods near Buffalo Grove. The final step in the process, […]
Michigan environmental regulators held a hearing Thursday night on a proposed permit to disturb 10 acres of wetlands for a $7 billion Oracle and OpenAI data center in Saline Township. […]
The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) and a Great Lakes freighter recently teamed up for an impressive training day on Lake Michigan. The crew of M/V James R. Barker, a 1,004-foot cargo-hauling […]
In Michigan, a new landowner plans to cut off access to the Au Train Dam powerhouse in less than a month, forcing a scramble to shut down a system already […]
A long-planned revival of Elberta, Michigan’s, historic Lake Michigan waterfront is moving into its next phase after the state approved a parkland acquisition grant and the village selected a developer […]
In Michigan, the Silver Lake Sand Dunes is opening its 450 acres of open sand dune space once again for fat-tire bikers to climb up and glide down to the […]
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Michigan House Republicans have unilaterally blocked about $8.3 million in spending aimed at helping residents of Flint deal with the long-term fallout of the drinking water crisis, as the GOP […]
The village of Elberta, Michigan, has been awarded a $5.3 million grant from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources for the development of a waterfront park. The park project will […]
The Palisades Nuclear Plant, a facility that sits on the shore of Lake Michigan, was shut down just two years ago due to financial pressures. As a result of a […]
By Ada Tussing
To combat the population loss of spectaclecase mussels, researchers with both the Minnesota and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources released over 177 mussels into the Chippewa River in Northwest Wisconsin.
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