Following a recent blast of Arctic air, Michigan's Great Lakes saw a significant increase in ice, as the lakes reached their highest coverage for the 2025-26 season. On Sunday, Jan. 4, Great Lake ...

CLEVELAND — Ice is beginning to take hold across the Great Lakes as the calendar turns to January. Overall the coverage remains below normal for this point in the season, according to the latest ...

Michigan's Great Lakes are starting to see ice coverage as the region closes out December with a winter storm, and a cold snap is expected to move into the state by New Year's Eve, Dec. 31, that may ...

A surge of Arctic air brought strong winds, heavy snow and frigid temperatures to the Great Lakes and Northeast on Tuesday, a day after a bomb cyclone barreling across the Midwest left tens of ...

The Great Lakes are taking one last shot in 2025 to remind everyone their waves can be more fierce than what the vast oceans typically conjure up. Gale force winds producing waves not seen since the ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – You can watch the Great Lakes Invitational third-place game live on Local 4+ as Ferris State takes on Miami (Ohio). Michigan State, Ferris State, Michigan Tech, and Miami (Ohio) ...

Some of the best surfing is possible during those icy, windy months before the lakes freeze over. Those willing to face the frost actually help boost beachside communities. When the temps drop and the ...

Throughout the United States, data centers are popping up like weeds, devouring water and electricity to fuel the unprecedented demand for AI training and inference. At the same time, water levels in ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The plastic showing up in the Great Lakes doesn’t arrive in one dramatic spill. It slips in piece by piece — blown off land, flushed through sewers, shed from everyday products and ...

Spearfishing for walleyes and other game fish has slowly been gaining traction in the Great Lakes, and starting April 2026, the sport will enter a new phase there. In November, after years of input ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — So much of the Rochester region’s climate, industry, and recreation revolves around Lake Ontario, the smallest of North America’s five Great Lakes. But did you ever wonder how the ...

A Canadian man became a minor celebrity in the Great Lakes region when his homemade houseboat was spotted drifting (more like, adrift) under the Blue Water Bridge on the St. Claire River near Port ...