Great Lakes Daily News

Chicagoans and Northwest Indiana residents are living on land that once belonged to Potawatomi Tribes. The Potawatomi Pokagon Band claims the land as where their Tribe was born. Read the full story by the Chicago Tribune.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is taking steps to terminate Michigan’s Au Train Dam’s operating license following years of unresolved safety violations. The move marks the most serious enforcement action against the century-old dam, which is considered one of the state’s riskiest privately-owned hydroelectric structures. Read the full story by MLive.

The city of Lorain, Ohio has invested millions in cleanup and infrastructure to prepare the former steel industry site for mixed-use development to reshape its waterfront. Read the full story by WEWS-TV – Cleveland, OH.

New rules from the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy on when and how the largest animal farms dispose of manure and liquid wastes are being praised by environmentalists as a step toward improving state water quality — and blasted by farmers as more costly bureaucratic impositions that won’t better the environment. Read the full story by Detroit Free Press.

A Canadian dive team searching for the century-old wreck may have stumbled upon a far rarer prize: a pristine shipwreck that could date back 50 years earlier than expected, offering a rare window into a little-understood era of shipbuilding. Read the full story by CBC News.

Most passengers on Great Lakes cruises are from the U.S. and Canada; however, the number of French- and German-speaking tourists is climbing. Read the full story by MLive.

In Chicago, Illinois, 40 acres of lakefront property will be restored for a public park at the site of a toxic landfill that’s been operating along Lake Michigan for 40 years. Read the full story by WLS-TV – Chicago, IL.

The Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy says there’s not enough money to take care of Michigan’s dams — especially the ones that have put off maintenance for decades — and it’s putting people and property at risk. Read the full story by WDIV-TV – Detroit, MI.

Many of this year’s funding cuts to the Great Lakes Fishery Commission’s Sea Lamprey Control Program have been reversed, and the program has secured full funding for 2026. But its future remains uncertain. Read the full story by WUWM – Milwaukee, WI.

A northern Michigan tribe along with local environmental organizations have scored a major victory in a legal case in Elk Rapids against Burnette Foods, a nearby fruit processing operation, for allegedly polluting wetlands and Spencer Creek. Read the full story by Interlochen Public Radio.