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Cleveland has big plans for its waterfront. But can people get there?

From: Great Lakes Today

Caption: Richard Pace, Credit: Matt Richmond, ideastream

Cleveland, which sits on Lake Erie, has big plans for building homes and shop along its waterfront. But the city faces some major obstacles – like ...

Bought by WXXI Rochester, WCPN, and WBFO

Nuclear plant shutdown divides Great Lakes community

From: Great Lakes Today

Caption: Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in Covert, Mich., Credit: File photo, Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Decades ago, the Great Lakes shoreline was a popular spot to build nuclear power plants, because there was plenty of water to cool reactors. Now, s...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WLPR , WCMU Michigan, WBFO, and North Country Public Radio

Plastic bag bans spark debate in Great Lakes region

From: Great Lakes Today

Caption: A plastic bag washed up on the beach at the Erie Basin Marina., Credit: Veronica Volk

Plastic bags are all around us, especially in the checkout lanes of grocery stores. They're also a persistent litter problem on land and along the ...

Bought by Michigan Radio, North Country Public Radio, WCPN, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WRVO Public Media and more

"Lake Effect" can bring trouble, but some companies embrace name

From: Great Lakes Today

Caption: by ANGELICA A. MORRISON / Lake Effect Furies skirmish, Credit: by ANGELICA A. MORRISON / Lake Effect Furies skirmish

Residents along the Great Lakes corridor are very familiar with lake effect snows. When cold dry air passes over the lakes, it generates enough sno...

Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio, WCPN, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WCMU Michigan, Interlochen Public Radio and more

Ecotourism: A New Catch For Commercial Fishermen?

From: Laine Kaplan-Levenson

There’s a new push to get tourists in New Orleans off bourbon street and into nature. Eco-tourism is the new way to explore Louisiana according to ...

Bought by WABE

Drought Keeps Oklahoma Pilot Grounded

From: StateImpact Oklahoma

Caption: Harold Blackledge, a 79-year-old agricultural pilot, stands in front of his 1975 Piper Pawnee Brave in one of his hangars at the Watonga Regional Airport. The drought — the worst he’s seen — has dried up aerial spraying work in Oklahoma, he says., Credit: Joe Wertz

The drought that settled into Oklahoma last year is getting worse. And it’s hurting business owners such as Harold Blackledge, an agricultural pilo...

Montana Oil Spill

From: Emilie Ritter Saunders

Cleanup is continuing along the Yellowstone River in south-east Montana where an estimated 42,000 gallons of crude oil spewed from a burst ExxonMob...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio

A Sea Change in the New England Funeral Business

From: Katherine Perry

They say death, like taxes, is one of the few certain things in life. But the way that culture deals with death is not a static institution. In New...