The Latest Breaking News from Lake Erie

An Ohio angler has caught the largest smallmouth bass ever reeled from Lake Erie and the Great Lakes.

PITTSBURGH — Fish stories just aren't what they used to be. To be believed, you'd better have live-streaming video, a digital scale and a lawyer. Now big-money fishing tournaments are even turning to metal detectors to prevent anglers from cheating.

Midsummer is the time for forecasts of the size of this year’s “dead zones” and algal blooms in major lakes and bays. Will the Gulf of Mexico dead zone be the size of New Jersey, or only as big as Connecticut? Will Lake Erie’s bloom blossom to a human health…

In Toledo, Ohio, monitoring and treating algae-contaminated water from Lake Erie costs $100 per family per year

Lake Erie's dominant predator spends much of its time chasing food in the dark — at night and at depths that obscure most light frequencies. Named for their odd pearlescent eyes, walleye can distinguish colors in various water conditions and see in shades of darkness that blind their prey

A Facebook post showing what were said to be large sharks swimming in Lake Erie has been debunked.

The Great Lakes cover nearly 95,000 square miles (250,000 square kilometers) and hold over 20% of Earth’s surface fresh water. More than 30 million people in the U.S. and Canada rely on them for drinking water. The lakes support a multibillion-dollar maritime economy, and the lands around them provided many…

A fast-breeding alien shellfish species is smothering hundreds of years of dramatic shipwreck history in Lake Erie, in the US, but are making the water clearer for exploring divers

More than 200 earthquakes centered in Ohio have been recorded since 1776