Dam maintenance and non-native fish reduction efforts led the government to reject an environmentally restorative flood in the Grand Canyon.

Look for beach warning flags. Check for beach hazards at weather.gov/greatlakes/beachhazards. Rip currents claim lives each summer, including the “good swimmers.”  From Michigan City to ...

Discover a charming lakeside town in Michigan, offering sandy beaches, cozy accommodations, and plenty of outdoor fun.

The same brown tide species hit Laguna Madre and Baffin Bay along the Gulf Coast of Texas in the early 1990s, killing off seagrass for years. The bloom lasted almost eight years, making it the longest ...

Let’s go to the beach — in Vero Beach and Sebastian. These are the best beaches in the area, either popular and packed with people or lesser-known with small parking lots to keep crowds away.

Ontario’s chief coroner has launched an investigation into the holiday weekend drowning of a 15-year-old boy at Windsor’s ...

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After the latest drowning death near Sand Point Beach on Sunday, Windsor’s mayor is considering closing the popular ...

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore offers sand and recreation in nature along 25 miles of Lake Michigan shoreline. Here's what to know.

More than half of New Jerseyans say housing costs aren't affordable, a Rutgers-Eagleton Poll found. But a consensus on a solution is hard to find.

A Mexican Navy tall ship called the Armada de la República Mexicana (ARM) Cuauhtémoc struck the Brooklyn Bridge at about ...

Lake Erie, one of the region's five Great Lakes, lies on the southeast coast of Michigan. Here's what to know.