There’s a magical place along Lake Michigan’s western shore where the horizon stretches endlessly blue and time seems to slow ...

Natural resources experts explain why a particular fish is thriving in Lake St. Clair, creating the best fishing in the lake in at least 50 years.

The woman who died after being found floating miles from shore earlier this week likely went for a swim and wasn't able to make it back to land.

Rescue crews pull multiple people from Lake Michigan as crowds pack beaches A woman died after she was pulled out of Lake Michigan near Navy Pier on Saturday afternoon, police said.

When it comes to warming up, Lake Michigan takes its time. It’s often late July before water temperatures begin to peak.

Michiganders may dread the obnoxious fishfly, or mayfly. They emerge when the water warms.

Lake Ontario, one of the region's five Great Lakes, is the only one that doesn't border Michigan. Here's what to know.

When the Lady Elgin sank on Lake Michigan in 1860, British journalist and politician Herbert Ingram was lost to the deep, but 165 years later his pocket watch has returned home.

The U.S. Coast Guard has issued an alert after a live military flare washed up on Chicago's Montrose Beach, with three devices still unaccounted for.

The J.C. Ames, a 160-foot tugboat, was discovered by a Wisconsin angler near Manitowoc. The tug, built in 1881, had a long career in the lumber and pulpwood trades before being scrapped in 1923 ...

Catholic churches across northern Lake County will merge over the next "several years" into four parishes, the Diocese of Gary said, in an effort to offset the impact of shrinking numbers of ...