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Don’t expect your local legislator to stop by the bar anytime soon. Starting today, about 500 bars and restaurants across Michigan will display signs telling politicians they are no longer welcome.
Chippewa County is one of many Great Lakes communities looking to clean up public waters by identifying and treating problem storm drains.
Some Great Lakes lawmakers want to eliminate the tax provision giving a tax break on boats classified as second home. But opponents worry that it will hurt the boating industry more than yacht owners.
The fight for clean air in industrial cities has been taken to vehicle exhaust and billowing factories. Now it’s gone to the dogs. Or, more accurately, to their poop.
The University of Toledo reports twice as much potentially deadly microcystis – the most prevalent form of toxic algae – in western Lake Erie as there was this time last year.
Experts say removal of the Boardman River dam is the biggest in Michigan history, and the largest-ever wetlands restoration in the Great Lakes region.
Asian carp may be bottom-feeders, but they have high-class humor – sort of. Echo got a hold of the invasive game-changer via Twitter last week.
A new method of battling the blood-sucking sea lamprey involves an unlikely odor: the smell of its putrefied flesh.
