Lake Michigan

The yearly maximum frozen surface area of Lake Michigan has decreased on average from the early 1970s to 2023.

The bill would require those who maintain public beaches and piers on the lake to have highly visible, emergency flotation devices available. Local governments would also have to report drownings at public sites at least twice a year.

A debit card left behind at the scene of a fatal shooting helped police in Gary track down and arrest a man suspected of killing a fellow customer at a grocery store. The violence was caught on the store’s surveillance camera.

Placing things like sea walls along the shoreline can lead to more erosion for communities nearby because it blocks the flow of sand, reducing the natural beaches in the state.

The Obama administration put rules in place in 2015 to prevent coal ash from contaminating groundwater. But any ponds that were closed before then were exempt.

The announcement on Monday, once again, upholds the public’s right to use the beach in front of private property in Indiana.

The Porter County property owners’ request to the high court comes after the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago ruled in May that they lack standing to challenge in federal court the Indiana Supreme Court’s 2018 ruling.

Workers on the barge were transferring fuel from a cargo tank to another fuel tank. The tank was overfilled and up to 800 gallons of fuel spilled into Burns Harbor.

Activists say NIPSCO's customers shouldn’t have to pay for what they call an “incomplete” cleanup. Though NIPSCO is removing coal ash from its ponds near the plant, it doesn’t plan to clean up coal ash used as fill on the site.

Richard Gray of Traverse City died Monday following the accident on the Walter J. McCarthy freighter, along the Gary, Indiana, lakeshore, WWTV-TV reported.