Feb 18, 2026 | Daily News
A new study examines the uniqueness of work that research centers conduct in the Great Lakes region, highlighting their importance amid dramatic changes in federal funding. Research centers in the region work together as a collaborative that complements each of them,...
Feb 18, 2026 | Daily News
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation last week announced the release of proposed changes to coolwater sportfish regulations to help protect spawning fish, increase the reproductive capacity of walleye in Lake Ontario’s eastern basin, and...
Feb 18, 2026 | Daily News
Shipwreck hunters discovered a sunken Canadian freighter—the James Carruthers—on Lake Huron last year, the last shipwreck to be found that went down in the lake during a famous 1913 storm. The vessel was a large steel freighter equipped with state-of-the-art...
Feb 18, 2026 | Daily News
Ashland, Wisconsin’s new $11.5 million water intake pipe is operating successfully after crews repaired construction damage before bringing the system online in November. The new pipe, stretching out into Lake Superior, replaces the former intake constructed in 1891...
Feb 18, 2026 | Daily News
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore was named the fourth best “one-of-a-kind” beach in the world by TripAdvisor in February 2026. The ranking is based on a high volume of positive reviews and opinions submitted to the TripAdvisor community over a 12-month period....
Feb 18, 2026 | Daily News
More than 30 years ago, a group of scientists planted 4,200 seeds of the rare Pitcher’s thistle in the western Great Lakes sand dunes. Today, the restored populations are thriving and spreading, providing the foundation for a newly published study. Read the full story...
Feb 18, 2026 | Daily News
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources reported that since the sturgeon spearing season began on Saturday, there have been 1,092 sturgeon speared on Lake Winnebago: 521 adult females, 423 males and 148 juvenile females. Another 279 fish were speared on upriver...
Feb 18, 2026 | Daily News
More than 150 years after it sank in Lake Erie, the stone-hauling sailing vessel the Clough has been positively identified, the National Museum of the Great Lakes (NMGL) announced Wednesday. The Cleveland Underwater Explorers (CLUE) worked with the support of NMGL to...
Feb 18, 2026 | Daily News
At the peak of the deep freeze, ice caves and ice volcanoes appeared along the shores of Lake Erie in Crystal Beach, Ontario. Lake Erie is nearly 95% covered in ice; if the cold weather continues across the Great Lakes Region, the possibility exists that Lake Erie...
Feb 18, 2026 | Daily News
The recent discovery of the Lac La Belle, which sank to the bottom of Lake Michigan in 1872, does more than scratch it from the list of long-sought shipwrecks. It takes one back – if only for a moment – to when traveling around the Great Lakes didn’t mean...
