Sailing a homemade houseboat on the Great Lakes is risky due to harsh weather, large waves, and vessels not designed for open ...

The lakes of the northwoods are icing up well for ice fishing season this winter, but certain spots are still dangerous.

DETROIT (AP) — A life ring and a piece of a lifeboat from the Edmund Fitzgerald were sold at auction Friday for $150,000, a month after the 50th anniversary of the famous ship’s sinking in Lake ...

We've got Joel out on the water with us today. We had a couple inches of snow on the driveway this morning, but that's okay! We're fishing the mouth of the Niagara River, Lake Ontario just out of ...

Lake Michigan is at the warmest temperature for Oct. 9 dating back 30 years. The dataset for good, high resolution, surface water temperatures dates back to 1995. The year 1995 finally had satellites ...

CHIAGO (WLS) -- Chicago police are conducting a death investigation after a male body was pulled from Lake Michigan Thursday on the city's South Side. Chicago police said he was found in the water ...

Chicago police said a body was found in Lake Michigan near the South Shore Cultural Center exactly one week after a man disappeared near a breakwall near Rainbow Beach. Police search for missing ...

The Department of Natural Resources’ weekly fishing report for Sept. 24 shows some of the most current conditions in the region and best methods. Here’s what the report shows that anglers said about ...

Fall is trophy king salmon season for Great Lakes anglers and one of my favorite times to be on the water. As temperatures cool off, the spawning instinct kicks in, pushing big Chinook (king) salmon ...

Approximately 20,000 gallons of untreated wastewater leaked into Lake Michigan on Sept. 18. The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District has reported the spill to the Wisconsin Department of Natural ...

BIG RAPIDS – The salmon run appears to be under way, but it’s looking like it will be a slow start. “It’s been a slow start to the salmon season,” Joe Surman, of Baldwin Bait & Tackle said. “But the ...