Catawba County commissioners approved funding to treat lyngbya on Lake Norman at the board's Feb. 17 meeting. Commissioners ...

Treatment plants use a combination of tools to keep toxins and contaminants out of drinking water. Researchers with the ...

Telling this story through something visual that beautifies a community is a great way to educate Toledo residents and ...

Legal action continues in efforts at cleaning up a portion of Ohio's waterways. The Ohio EPA has been added as a defendant, along with the U.S. EPA, in a lawsuit filed by the Board of Lucas County ...

When populations of tiny aquatic organisms called cyanobacteria (formerly known as blue-green algae) explode, their toxic overgrowth can threaten human drinking water and cause wildlife deaths in ...

CATAWBA ISLAND, Ohio (WJW) — The U.S. Coast Guard 9th District was called to rescue at least four people trapped on the ice on Lake Erie on Tuesday afternoon. The call came just after 4:30 p.m ...

CATAWBA ISLAND, Ohio (WTVG) - Members of the U.S. Coast Guard worked with local authorities to rescue four people stranded on an ice floe in Lake Erie Tuesday night. According to a representative ...

OTTAWA COUNTY, Ohio — The Coast Guard, in conjunction with Catawba Island first responders, rescued four ice fishermen who were stranded on an ice floe in Lake Erie Tuesday afternoon off of ...

Lake Erie ice coverage has increased by 35-40% since mid January when the lake was only partially frozen over. Now with recent freezing temperatures and more snowy conditions, Lake Erie is roughly ...

using the yellow rope, you can pull them in,” said Tony Pianta, the harbor master for the Erie Port Authority. Coast Guard representatives said no ice is safe ice, so always communicate with ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Drone footage from this weekend shows a Canadian freighter stuck in the ice on frozen Lake Erie near the shores of Buffalo, New York. The 663-foot ship called the Manitoulin was ...