The Great Lakes surf season peaks in fall and winter when the wind creates some of the biggest waves of the year. Surfers clad in thick neoprene wetsuits embrace the cold like seals on the Alaska ...

When Michigan's many lakes and rivers form ice, it can be hard to stay away. Some ice isn't worth stepping onto, experts say.

There are other smaller lakes that, given even a semblance of winter, can provide ice anglers a lake trout fix.

Michigan turned 188 on Sunday, and it already has matching left and right mittens. Michigan residents will have to make do ...

Since 1973, ice coverage has fallen by 77% on Lake Michigan and 71% on the Great Lakes as a whole. That has a far-reaching ...