U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employees fired in February were responsible for managing invasive sea lamprey. Without their control efforts, sea lamprey populations threaten the Great Lakes fishery. Read the […]
The Great Lakes Seaway Development Corporation, which manages the U.S. side of operations on the waterway, warned residents on the St. Lawrence River that ice-breaking operations will start around March […]
A Sixth Circuit panel ruled Thursday that a 2023 decree negotiated by the U.S. government and a group of Indigenous Nations regarding fishing rights on the Great Lakes should be […]
The Great Lakes Environmental Festival is returning to Manistee, Michigan, for a fourth time on March 22. This date is also World Water Day, and the festival will be focused […]
Bipartisan members of Congress from Great Lakes states are urging the state of Illinois to “promptly” end its delay of a $1.15 billion project to prevent invasive carp from infiltrating […]
The Poe Lock, and part of the Soo Locks, in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, will be opened early to all marine traffic by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on […]
In the first round of layoffs in the Trump Administration’s effort to wither the federal workforce, more than 1,200 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) staff members were lost due […]
The mayor of Lorain, Ohio, joined 29 other U.S. and Canadian mayors from the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative in Washington last week to advocate for maintaining trade […]
Great Lakes water levels have dropped down to their lowest point in the last decade. The levels are expected to rise during the spring thaw, but low water levels can […]
U.S. Senators Gary Peters (MI) and Elissa Slotkin (MI) are leading bipartisan legislation to extend federal funding and protections for the Great Lakes via the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Act […]