Illinois Governor JB Pritzker jokingly announced that the name of Lake Michigan had been changed to "Lake Illinois," poking fun at President Donald Trump's Gulf of America. Pritzker posted a video ...

Michigan's shortest fishing season was back in 2025, but only for 17 minutes. The 2025 lake sturgeon fishing season on Black Lake in Cheboygan and Presque Isle counties began at 8 a.m. Saturday ...

Michigan's sturgeon fishing season on Black Lake set a record Saturday as the fastest ever. The season, which lasted 17 minutes before the harvest limit was reached, beat the previous record of 35 ...

The extreme cold is making for a fascinating look on Grand Traverse Bay at Traverse City, Michigan. Grand Traverse Bay is a bay on Lake Michigan. The large temperature difference between still ...

No way you're picking the wrong horse with this Lake Michigan luxury house that's on the market. Not only does it have a guesthouse and a barn with an indoor horse-riding arena that could be used ...

Situated on the sandy Lake Michigan shoreline at the northern edge of the park, the 1867 lighthouse and grounds are nestled among the jack pines. The iconic black and white tower stands over 100 ...

Set in writer-director Sierra Falconer’s old stomping grounds — among the cozy, neighborly community that surrounds a scenic lake in northern Michigan — the pleasantly laconic anthology film ...

Like a frozen mermaid, massive shelf ice is luring people to the edge of Lake Michigan. It’s an eerie, bizarre transformation for shoreline waters that, just four months ago, saw adolescent toes ...

Ice cover on Lake Michigan has been increasing lately after a slow start, and is now nearing the historical average for this time of year. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

Indiana resident Emily Hickox, 25, ended up with a Michigan Lottery ticket in a white elephant gift exchange, in which people bring a wrapped gift to a shared pool and get to pick a gift or "steal ...