Researchers at Michigan State University are collecting data on Great Lakes shorelines, including how residents view coastlines and the impact of high water levels. Read the full story by The Associated Press.
Local bookings for the third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine have been picking up as more people near the six-month mark after their second dose, the Middlesex-London health unit says.
News and history of regulatory violations should result in alarms to immediately shut down Pipeline 5 in Michigan’s Straits of Mackinac. The question isn’t if an oil pipeline will become a problem, but when. Read the full story by Traverse City Record-…
The C-E-O for the Huron Perth Health Care Alliance says most hospital administrations ask themselves from time to time if they have the right people in the right places.
There have been large botulism kills of birds in Lake Huron and Lake Erie since 1998. It killed many birds in Georgian Bay in October 2011 and October 2012, and again this October. Read the full story by Orillia Today.
Oaktree Capital Management LP and American Industrial Partners are exploring a sale of the Great Lakes marine transportation company Rand Logistics, which could fetch more than $1 billion, including debt, according to people with knowledge of the matte…
Students in Careerline Tech Center’s Natural Resources and Outdoor Studies program are exploring the issue of microplastics by collecting samples from six beaches along Lake Michigan in Michigan’s Ottawa County, from Grand Haven State Park to Holland S…
Residents in Pellston, MI can expect another round of water testing as the state Department of Health and Human Services looks to see how per- and polyfluoroalkyl substance levels have fluctuated. Read the full story by Traverse City Record-Eagle.
For the first time since 1983, a U.S.-flagged freighter has been constructed on the Great Lakes. Fincatieri Bay Shipbuilding, based in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, built the 639-foot vessel for the Great Lakes’ own Interlake Steamship Company, whose roots …
The popular SS Badger is away from her home for a bit for a long-awaited sprucing up. The U.S. Coast Guard requires the ship to be inspected every five years. The Badger last made the trip to Sturgeon Bay in 2015, but because of her fresh-water operations and seasonality, Interlake Steamship Company, the ferry’s parent […]