Humans have always had a close connection with Lake Ontario. For centuries, this Great Lake has been a backbone of the region’s economy — relied upon for trade, food and industry. But a ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Water levels on Lake Ontario are starting to change with the spring season now underway. It’s a natural cycle — but one that experts continue to monitor closely.

Even as Lake Ontario’s waters hit a record high this spring, the neighbors on Newco Drive set to work saving their homes from the floods to come. The breakwalls that had protected the shoreline ...

Even its name is lake-derived from the eponymous Lake Ontario, an adaptation of a word meaning “sparkling water” from the Haudenosaunee Indigenous Peoples. Nearly one-fifth of the world’s ...

Two past two weeks of gloomy weather has certainly had folks who live along Lake Ontario's shoreline paying attention. Lake Ontario has added about one foot to it's shoreline since early April.

Today, we’re starting with a topic that’s been raised at several public meetings: What effect will Micron’s prodigious water use have on Lake Ontario? This is our first of many stories that ...

A body found in 1992 on the shores of Lake Ontario has been identified more than 30 years later as a man from Buffalo who apparently went over Niagara Falls and whose body then drifted more than ...

Totals of 20 to 30 inches are expected downwind of Lakes Erie and Ontario, the heaviest expected Monday night into Tuesday. Lake-effect snow warnings remain in effect through early Wednesday for ...

This Buoy is located in Lake Ontario just offshore of the outflow of the Oswego River. The buoy is located in approximately 60 feet (20 meters) of water and at the edge of Lake Ontario?s nearshore ...

Lake Superior boasts all the superlatives: Of the five Great Lakes, it is the largest, deepest and the coldest. Its depth is a little less than the height of Chicago's Willis Tower, by about a ...

Greater Sodus Bay is located along the south shore of Lake Ontario. The bay is located in Wayne County, New York between the Towns of Huron and Sodus. The Village of Sodus Point is located at the ...