(WI) Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Wisconsin has entered the multi-state battle against Illinois and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to stop an Asian carp invasion of the Great Lakes.

(WI) Green Bay Post Gazette – The recent decision by U.S. District Judge William Griesbach to throw out a lawsuit by area paper companies is just another travesty in the PCB Fox River saga. To place the cost on the paper mills alone is wrong.

(WI) Miwaukee Journal Sentinel - A tasty little fish traditionally smoked and spread on crackers during the holidays has disappeared from Lake Michigan to the point that it’s scarcely available in area fish markets this New Year’s Eve.

(MI) Grand Rapids Press - Hopes to get $1 million or more for dredging have been washed away because Kalamazoo Harbor is at the wrong end of the river, a Superfund cleanup site.

(MI) Detroit Free Press - The so-called hole in the St. Clair River, which carries water from Lake Huron down into Lake St. Clair, is definitely big enough to merit filling, although the fix would surely be more technologically sophisticated than that. Nonetheless, the recommendation of a study group — that their findings be incorporated into a much larger study of the lakes — is probably sound.

(MN) Minneapolis Star Tribune - It was, in the end, just a fish story. A pretty big one, though. Four guys from Wisconsin were fishing on Upper Red Lake on Dec. 23 when a state conservation officer stopped by to check on their catch.

(MI) Lansing State Journal - Lansing’s curbside recycling dropped in 2009, but the city’s attempt to collect recyclables should become more efficient, convenient and bountiful in 2010, officials say.

(IL) Chicago Tribune – Six months after state health officials declared their investigation of cancer rates in south suburban Crestwood was almost complete, they have yet to release the results.

(MI) The Detroit News - A Wisconsin man who poached a wolf in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula must pay more than $25,000 in fines and perform 20 days community service. Judge C. Joseph Schwedler on Monday also sentenced 37-year-old Stephen Popp Jr. of Green Bay to six months’ probation and banned him from hunting for two years.

(MI) Traverse City Record-Eagle - Local officials approved plans to remove three former hydroelectric dams on the river — Brown Bridge Dam owned by Traverse City, and Sabin and Boardman dams owned by Grand Traverse County. The decisions came early this year after a multi-year public study by the Boardman River Dams Committee wrapped at the end of 2008.