Wolves in parts of the Northern Rockies and the Great Lakes region come off the endangered species list on Monday, opening them to public hunts in some states for the...

Government forecasters say the upper Midwest, parts of the Great Lakes area and the Northeast are facing a threat of spring flooding.

The House on Thursday approved $19.4 billion to help states and local communities upgrade crumbling wastewater facilities, deal with sewage overflow and fight pollution...

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Friday he is upholding the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to remove gray wolves from the federal endangered list in...

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is upholding a decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to remove gray wolves in the Northern Rockies and the Great Lakes from the...

Wild winds with gusts topping 60 mph blew from the Great Lakes to the East Coast on Thursday, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of customers, disrupting...

Wild wind with gusts topping 60 mph knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of customers and disrupted travel from the Great Lakes to the East Coast.

Wild wind with gusts sometimes reaching hurricane force has knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of customers from the Great Lakes to the East.

Long a symbol of romance and adventure, the seafaring life is attracting fewer young adults these days, creating a worsening personnel shortage for those hauling cargo...

Winter-hardened Northeasterners were socked with the same subzero temperatures and biting winds that have turned the Northern Plains, Midwest and Great Lakes into a...

The Bush administration says it is removing gray wolves in the western Great Lakes and northern Rocky Mountains from the federal endangered species list.

Wrapping up an eight-year investigation of possible links between industrial pollution and health risks in the Great Lakes region, federal researchers said information...

Dozens of foreign species could spread across the Great Lakes in coming years despite policies designed to keep them out, causing significant environmental and economic...

Snow, sleet and freezing rain have made roads hazardous across the Great Lakes into New England and closed hundreds of schools.

Road crews worked around the clock to remove two feet of snow from Spokane, Wash., streets early Friday as the winter storm that set records in the West moved through...

A federal appeals court has upheld a Michigan law designed to prevent oceangoing freight ships from bringing invasive species to the Great Lakes.

Officials say a blast of cold air has spread snow across parts of the Great Lakes region, with some places getting more than a foot.

Connections engineered more than a century ago between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed should be changed to block the advance of invasive species...

A federal court Monday overturned the Bush administration’s decision to remove gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region from the endangered species list.

Congress is sending President Bush a bill that would extend for two years a federal program to clean up areas of pollution and contaminated sediment around the Great...