While residents enjoy Michigan's Great Lakes, invasive species may be, too. During Aquatic Invasive Species Awareness Week here are 3 to watch for.

Pere Marquette River: Fish were reported to have been trickling into the river, but not yet in large numbers. Big Manistee River: Heavy amounts of fish were reported to have been in the river.

MANISTEE COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- The Manistee River Trail Suspension Bridge will be closed for maintenance, starting Monday through November 11.

The 246-foot-long Manistee River Suspension Bridge, which connects a local trail to the interstate North Country Trail in the Huron-Manistee National Forests, will be closed from Monday, Sept. 30 ...

MANISTEE COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- The Little River Band of Ottawa Indians just completed the final phase of a new fish monitoring system to track Lake Sturgeon in the Manistee River.

And nobody understands why. The Michigan EGLE aquatic invasive species team's concern over didymo escalated in 2021, when the algae grew thick in the Upper Manistee River in Kalkaska County.

MANISTEE, Mich. — A 53-year-old fisherman is dead from an apparent drowning Tuesday the Manistee County Sheriff's Office said. The man, identified as Todd Marshall of Interlochen, was fishing ...

MANISTEE COUNTY, Mich., (WPBN/WGTU) -- Personnel with the U.S. Coast Guard are investigating after fuel was apparently leaked into the Manistee River, according to the City of Manistee. In a ...

By heading out into streams to collect macroinvertebrates, these citizen scientists will help the conservation district establish “baseline water quality data for the lower portion of the Manistee ...

WEXFORD COUNTY, Mich. (WPBN/WGTU) -- The replacement of railroad bridge over the Manistee River is getting a financial boost from the federal government. The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA ...

MANISTEE — A missing fisherman from Gladwin who drowned in the Manistee River has been identified as Chad Randall Hetherington, according to a statement from the Manistee County Sheriff’s Office.