Erie News

Detroit is famous for automobiles, music and urban decay, but our region also is defined by a volatile, mysterious force: The Great Lakes.

Late fall and early winter are prime time for hungry walleye, pike and bass, and the whitefish should be spawning, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources said Wednesday.

Lisa Roose-Church STAFF WRITER A 19-year-old Michigan State University student was killed when her car sideswiped a semi, overturned and collided with another vehicle last Tuesday night in Green Oak Township.

Salmon are still being found in some locations around Michigan, but it is getting harder to find fresh fish, the state Department of Natural Resources said.

The Monroe County Solid Waste RecycleNOW program is changing. Access has been adapted to allow additional capacity at the most-used locations, a news release said.

A 19-year-old driver was killed Tuesday evening after police say her car sideswiped a semi tractor-trailer on southbound US-23, overturned in the grassy median, went airborne into the northbound lanes and landed on another vehicle.

Despite some wet flakes that melted on impact Saturday in northwest Michigan and Thursday in Grand Rapids and Kalamazoo, metro Detroiters can keep the snow boots packed away for at least a few more days, according to the National Weather Service.

The opening weeks of the waterfowl season have been fair to middling in most of the state, yet few hunters are complaining.

Lake Erie is under attack from algae in a way not seen since the late 1960s and early 1970s.

"Around Plymouth" is designed to announce upcoming events taking place in the community.

Answers to Great Lakes climate questions may show up in an unlikely place -- the rings of trees growing in the Pacific Northwest.

"Around Plymouth" is designed to announce upcoming events taking place in the community.

After an extra couple of weeks of warm weather, it's time to break out the fall jackets.

A Michigan man charged with assaulting two undercover Toledo police detectives the day of his bachelor party was convicted yesterday, after a week-long jury trial, of misdemeanor assault, and two other men on trial, including his brother, were found not guilty on all charges.

A toxic form of algae that has overtaken Lake Erie's western basin in recent summers appears to be thriving not only because fertilizers are getting washed into area rivers and streams by rain but also because the silt doesn't stay put once it gets into the water.

Eric Edward Larson, a senior at Farmington High School and the son of Jeffrey and Lynne Larson of Farmington Hills, has earned the rank of Eagle Scout - Boy Scouts of America's highest award.

They call it the "holy grail" of Great Lakes shipwrecks. The Griffon went under in Lake Michigan more than three centuries ago.

It's another quiet morning in Luna Pier. Multimedia Waves gently break over the rocks that help form the local Pier.

Capital Area Michigan Works welcomes job seekers to a work expo in Lansing. Thousands of people packed the Lansing Center last year for the event, and the same is expected this year.

John Flanagan's best-selling series of children's books about a young Ranger's apprentice named Will has a loyal following.