Erie News

Area residents can help in saving the lives of their neighbors as Owens Community College and the American Red Cross host a community Blood Drive July 23.

Michigan is a national leader in blueberry production. Mid-July is the time when they start coming in.

It's been almost 50 years since the Argo Dam has served its original purpose of providing hydro power.

The sweetly fragrant blooms of American lotus, Michigan's largest native flower, will be opening soon, and Saturday is the deadline to sign up for a July 26 guided lotus tour.

Sunday is the final day for easy Downriver access to a series of educational cruises that sail through Lake Erie and the lower Detroit River.

Each summer, guests at The Hideaway House in Ludington sign a register to memorialize their vacations relaxing along the shores of Lake Michigan.

Township: Grosse Ile. Origin of name: French explorers dubbed the island 'la grosse ile,' which translates to 'the large island.' Later, the British referred to the island as Grosse Isle.

The 2008 Bedford Queen Contest recognized several girls and women at its annual event June 22 at Parmelee Park in Lambertville.

The National Weather Service has issued a small craft advisory for the near shore waters of Lake Huron, Saginaw Bay and Lake St.

Authorities say a fisherman is OK after spending four hours in Lake Erie. The Monroe County Sheriff's Department says Robert Murphy of Carleton had drifted about four miles from his boat before he was rescued ...

Ohio State's Linda Weavers and Richard Sayre are testing a process in the laboratory that could be used someday to remove mercury that pollutes sediment in Lake Erie and other waterways.

A RecycleNOW drop-off site has been relocated from Foodtown to Kroger, 850 S. Monroe St., Monroe.

Budding archeologists don't have to go all the way to dinosaur digs in Montana or ancient ruins in Rome to search for history.

The Pheasants Forever chapters of Michigan will bring their annual convention outdoors Saturday at the Livingston County Conservation District Nature Center in Gregory.

Extensive flooding in the Midwest has disrupted railroad networks and delayed coal shipments at a time when tight supplies already have contributed to higher prices for coal and electricity.

In the wake of the recent discovery of viral hemorrhagic septicemia in the Wisconsin waters of Lake Michigan and from a large inland lake in Ohio, Michigan Department of Natural Resources fisheries officials ...

THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN AS MOISTURE RETURNS ON SOUTHWEST WINDS.

Visitors to the Luna Pier Dog House learn immediately that we serve Koegel's hot dogs.

A fast-spreading virus recently killed thousands of round gobies near Milwaukee, and officials fear the same fate may await fish elsewhere in Lake Michigan.

At 12:38 p.m. Saturday, 50 years to the minute later, the same shipbuilding company foreman will blow the same whistle used when the SS Edmund Fitzgerald was launched, though he'll be several miles south of the ...