A research group is calling for funding to find out why Lake Superior is seeing algae blooms. The Wisconsin city of Superior closed Barkers Island Beach last week due to blue-green algae. That type of algae was not seen on Lake Superior until 2012. Read the full story by Northern News Now.
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