Coast Guard crews and Great Lakes mariners partnered to conduct a challenging helicopter maneuver during training day on Lake Michigan.
There are 15 counties in Michigan under winter weather alerts because of a chance to get up to 12 inches of snow.
A recent house listing near Lake Michigan is going viral online over its unique features it seems to hide well from the outside.
Cold air is sweeping across the Great Lakes region, bringing lake-effect snow from Michigan's Upper Peninsula to Western New York.
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One day at work, Lake Michigan came up in conversation when Jackson’s boss, Fred Behnke -- who Jackson called “a fellow loudmouth” -- confidently told coworkers it takes a large boat to cross any Great Lake, including Lake Michigan.
Authorities say they plan to file terrorism and assault with intent to murder charges against the suspect in a weekend knife attack at a Walmart store in Michigan.
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Four flares have been found after they were missing in Lake Michigan after a military exercise, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
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"It sat there for over a hundred years and then came back on our radar completely by chance," a maritime archaeologist said after a fisherman discovered a historic shipwreck in Lake Michigan.
Michigan is among the top states in the country when it comes to the number of golf courses – and if you’re looking for some of the best links in the world, you’ve got to head up north.
Michigan’s Mackinac Bridge is among the 68 bridges across 19 states that the National Transportation Safety Board recommended be assessed to determine “the risk of collapse from a vessel collision.”
Pete Buttigieg is quietly contemplating his future from a small city in northern Michigan while talking to Democratic Party officials, labor leaders and top strategists.
Happy 187th birthday, Michigan! You look great. Honestly, you don’t look a day over 125. What’s your secret? Pilates? Whatever it is, keep it up. It’s working.
Meteorologists forecast a strong snow and ice storm followed by brutally cold conditions will soon smack the eastern two-thirds of the United States.
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More than a dozen Michigan counties will be under a winter storm watch this week with several inches of snow possible.
Some storm-weary residents of the Great Lakes region have seen continued snowfall and are facing the prospect of even more accumulations this week.
Security planners for the Republican National Convention have had to contend with the winding river that snakes through downtown Milwaukee and near the Fiserv Center convention site.
A missing, overturned sailboat was located in Lake Michigan, but the man and two children who had been on board were nowhere to be found.
Crews are searching Lake Michigan for two suburban Chicago men who went missing while a large group of people were boating along northwestern Indiana’s coastline.
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A Michigan man was sentenced after being found guilty on federal tampering and vandalism charges for dredging a river inside Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
Looking for places to get away and enjoy the beauty of Michigan? Look no further! Check out this ranked list of summer road-trip destinations all within the mitten state and find your perfect vacation.
A busy trail inside Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore has been shut down through the summer season due to an invasive species.
The objects are from a shipwreck located in Lake Michigan that represent a link to life back sometime in the 1800s.
A city along Lake Michigan has been named the No. 2 best coastal small town in the United States in USA Today’s 10Best Readers’ Choice Award Contest.
The federal government will provide a $1.5 billion loan to restart a nuclear power plant in southwestern Michigan.
A steamship that sank in Lake Michigan in the late 1800s was found “remarkably intact” at the bottom of the lake in 2023 -- more than 130 years later.
Michigan attorneys have pressed a federal appellate panel in Cincinnati to move their lawsuit seeking to shut down a portion of an aging petroleum pipeline beneath the Straits of Mackinac from federal to state court.
Across much of America and especially in the normally chilly north, the country went through the winter months without, well, winter.
An unusually warm winter has left the Great Lakes all but devoid of ice and sent scientists scrambling to understand the possible consequences as climate change accelerates.
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A busy trail inside Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore has been shut down through the summer season due to an invasive species.
Nearly three dozen projects aimed at fighting invasive species in Michigan will share $3.6 million in grant funding through the Michigan Invasive Species Grant Program.
Helicopters will used for routine maintenance to remove branches near power lines, reports of a British secret agent in the area are unsubstantiated.
A Michigan man was convicted on federal tampering and vandalism charges after allegedly dredging a river inside Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.
Happy 187th birthday, Michigan! You look great. Honestly, you don’t look a day over 125. What’s your secret? Pilates? Whatever it is, keep it up. It’s working.
Parts of Oregon are bracing for freezing rain after a weekend of extreme winds knocked down trees and cut power to thousands.
There’s hardly any ice on Lake Michigan right now. Same goes for the other Great Lakes. Without ice on the lakes, weather patterns and regional commerce could look entirely different.
The “Christmas Tree Ship” stopped on its way to Chicago to return an anchor unintentionally recovered from a Lake Michigan shipwreck.
An Indiana couple died Sunday when their single-engine plane crashed in western Michigan after taking off from an airport near Ludington, authorities said.
A 4.5 mile stretch of Enbridge Energy’s Line 5 pipeline that runs under the Straits of Mackinac has sparked anger, lawsuits, and serious concerns about the threat it poses to the Great Lakes.
Five flamingos that showed up in Wisconsin to wade along a Lake Michigan beach attracted a big crowd of onlookers eager to see the unusual visitors venturing far from their usual tropical setting.
Historians are racing to locate Great Lakes shipwrecks before a seemingly unstoppable invasive mussel destroys them and erases part of the region's heritage.
The public health department in Ottawa County in Michigan is facing deep cuts to its funding.
The public health department in Ottawa County in Michigan is facing deep cuts to its funding.
A Milwaukee suburb is finally set to start pulling millions of gallons of water a day from Lake Michigan after years of seeking approval.
Shipwreck hunters have discovered the intact remains of a schooner that sank in Lake Michigan in 1881 and is so well-preserved it still contains the crew’s long-ago possessions in its final resting spot miles from Wisconsin’s coastline.
The Coast Guard estimates about 1,500 gallons of diesel fuel was spilled into Lake Michigan by a motor vessel earlier this month.
Did you hear about the Michigan man who crossed Lake Michigan in a bathtub (sitting backwards, no less) because of a $5 bet? Well, the 54-year anniversary of his voyage was this week, so we’re telling his story.