In 1976, one man triggered a legal fight that changed commercial fishing in the Great Lakes. Decades later, another legal battle is taking shape over the Great Lakes tribes indigenous […]
An ongoing legal challenge over public access to Lake Michigan shorelines is now moving through Milwaukee County Circuit Court and potentially toward the Wisconsin Supreme Court. It could ultimately determine […]
A South Bruce OPP officer was allegedly assaulted while investigating a trespassing complaint in Lucknow. According to an OPP news release, officers were contacted just before 9 a.m. on March 30 to report a man who had trespassed on a property overnight and then returned to the property that morning
The old port did a huge international business in its day, signified with the vast, now empty grain terminals
A man survived after being swept into Lake Michigan by waves while on a closed pier in South Haven, Michigan, last Friday. The life ring used in the rescue came […]
Ontario Premier Doug Ford thinks a man-made island in Lake Ontario could be the spot for Toronto’s new convention centre, but the idea is already creating confusion and concern among […]
By Julia Belden
An Alanson-raised author whose book on Ernest Hemingway’s ties to Northern Michigan explains the region’s influence on the novelist’s work. The book “Picturing Hemingway’s Michigan,” has just been released in paperback.
The post Book explores Hemingway’s experiences ‘up north’ first appeared on Great Lakes Echo. Astronaut Jeremy Hansen, who grew up on a farm near Ailsa Craig, will be the first non-American to fly to the moon
A Kincardine resident has been charged following a series of events which included the theft of one vehicle, attempted theft of a second, and a race from police that ended in a snowbank, OPP say. Around 10 p.m. on Jan. 9, South Bruce OPP were alerted to a stolen vehicle
By Kyrmyzy Turebayeva
In the late 1970s, when most wildlife conservation programs in the United States focused almost exclusively on game species, a quiet but historic shift began in Minnesota. It was here that one of the nation’s first state programs dedicated to protecting so-called nongame wildlife emerged from butterflies