"No one really had a chance to look under the water there." ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A surplus of rain from March through the first half of April has significantly boosted Lake Michigan-Huron ahead of the summer season. Over the last month, most locations ...

Michigan is known for its sweeping shorelines, historic lighthouses, towering dunescapes and sandy beaches that mark the meeting of land and freshwater along our four Great Lakes. A few of these ...

The mussels can wreak havoc on waterways. A new contest offers thousands of dollars for ideas to stop the spread.

Four freshwater mussel species have received additional federal protections as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service designates over 3,800 miles of rivers as critical habitat. That action, issued April ...

MUSKEGON, Mich. — The fastest ferry service across Lake Michigan will begin daily service in May. The Lake Express begins its season in Milwaukee at 6 a.m. on Friday, May 1. The ferry makes four ...

BIGFORK, Mont. — On Monday, the Flathead Lake Biological Station hosted a mussel walk, a day of hands-on learning in partnership with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, Montana Fish, ...

OROVILLE — Nearly a year after the California Department of Water Resources began its extensive boat inspection process at all of its designated waterways, Lake Oroville, as well as the Thermalito ...

Yellowstone urges summer visitors to plan ahead to stay safe Visitors heading to Yellowstone National Park this summer are being urged to plan ahead, both to stay safe and to help protect one of ...

If you're driving west from Michigan or east from Wisconsin, there's a more direct way to get around Lake Michigan — and that's going straight through it. The SS Badger ferry, the last coal-fired ...

There’s something fishy going on in the frigid, dark depths of Lake Superior. In the deepest part of the lake, a quarter mile ...