While the air outside is warming up, the Great Lakes will remain cold for weeks to come. Here's when it'll be swim weather.

Lake Erie, one of the region's five Great Lakes, lies on the southeast coast of Michigan. Here's what to know.

While the beaches and dunes provide a soothing vacation destination, the more than 100 lighthouses highlight the dangers its ...

Volunteers working with the Alliance for the Great Lakes pluck Styrofoam cups from the sand and catch grocery bags bouncing ...

The ship had been buried in the sand at the bottom of the lake for decades before storms this winter apparently revealed it.

One of the poorest cities in Michigan has a proposed $3 billion data center as a potential lifeline — but environmentalists ...

With about 100 drownings occurring on the Great Lakes every year, local advocates and state lawmakers are working to keep children safe on the water this summer through education and legislation.

An angler from Wisconsin was fishing in foggy conditions recently when he discovered the wreck of an abandoned tugboat. The [ ...

Aging infrastructure poses a risk to the drinking water of tens of millions, activists and Indigenous communities say.

As the Environmental Protection Agency scales back enforcement because of staff shortages and new federal rollbacks, concerns ...

Several historic lighthouses line Michigan's coast overlooking Lake Erie. Lake Erie's shallowness means it includes great habitat for young fish and other aquatic species. "The shallowness of the ...