Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker is renaming Lake Michigan to “Lake Illinois," poking fun at President Donald Trump’s recent ...

U.S. Steel mines iron ore in Minnesota and sends it across Lake Superior on freighters a thousand feet long. At Sault Ste.

Macomb County officials say wastewater discharges from the George Kuhn Basin contaminate the Red Run Drain, Clinton River and Lake St. Clair in Macomb County and contribute to the accumulation of ...

Anticipating a lack of federal funding under the new presidential administration, Illinois has postponed construction in a ...

Water levels of the upper Great Lakes are expected to drop to near or significantly below their historical summer averages ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has halted a key project meant to defend the Great Lakes from invasive carp, citing federal funding ...

The World Ice Fishing Championship is ramping up in Lakeview, attracting hundreds of elite anglers from 10 nations all over ...

Illinois has postponed construction in a long-awaited $1.15 billion project to stop the movement of invasive carp up Illinois ...

About one-eighth of the U.S. population and one-third of the population of Canada live within their drainage basin ... lakes such as Michigan and Ontario rarely see ice cover. Lake Superior ...

Q. I saw a photo on Facebook of a rattlesnake with its head looking up at the base of an oak tree and its enormous body stretched out in the ...