Monroe County history / Ice jams once crushed Macomb Street bridge
Historic images from southeast Michigan’s River Raisin show the complications of ice jams and bridge design over 100-year frequency floods. Read the full story by The Monroe News.
Most Great Lakes won’t approach record highs in next 6 months, report finds
In their latest forecast the Army Corps of Engineers hydrologists report that most of the Great Lakes will remain above their long-term average water levels in the coming months but won’t reach the record highs of recent years. Read the full story by T…
Michigan’s popular Soo Locks Boat Tours under new ownership
Interlake Maritime Services, through its new subsidiary, Soo Maritime Services, will now oversee operations of the tour boats Hiawatha, Bide-A-Wee and Holiday that have provided river and lock tours in the Upper Peninsula for more than six decades. Rea…
Great Lakes: Great sturgeon
Lake sturgeon have called the Great Lakes home for 10,000 years but now is a threatened species in many parts. Efforts have been made in the past year that raise hope of a new beginning, but what caused its decline in the first place? Read the full sto…
U.S. Coast Guard rescues 18 from Lake Erie ice floe Sunday
The Coast Guard reported personnel in a helicopter saw the group of around 18 people and several ATVs on an ice floe around 1 p.m. Sunday. The ice floe had separated from land near Catawba Island in Lake Erie, which is slightly southwest of Pelee Islan…