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SAUGATUCK, Mich. – A city along Lake Michigan has been named the No. 2 best coastal small town in the United States in USA Today’s 10Best Readers’ Choice Award Contest.

I’ve been tracking the Great Lakes’ water levels for years. It’s been a decade of water level extremes. Now we are going into the sweet spot of enjoying the Great Lakes’ water levels.

The Illinois Beach Hotel in Zion, which is the only hotel located on Lake Michigan in the state, announced that the beachfront destination has reopened following renovations.

A local fishery is supporting a question proposed by the Wisconsin DNR Conservation Congress.

The question would allow the Congress to create a commercial lake trout fishery, which businesses like the Susie-Q Fish Company in Two Rivers can’t keep.

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- The Lake Express Ferry embarked from its storage location in Milwaukee’s Menomonee River Valley to its operational terminal on the Lake Michigan waterfront on Wednesday, April 10.

Last week's prolonged heavy rainfall, which fell on already saturated ground, forced the release of 357 million gallons of untreated wastewater into local waterways, according to the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District.

Nearly 140 years after a ship went down in Lake Michigan, explorers have discovered the wreck "remarkably intact" after following clues from old newspaper clippings. The wreck of the steamship Milwaukee, which sank after colliding with another vessel in 1886, was found 360 feet below the water's surface, explorers from the Michigan Shipwreck Research Association (MSRA) said this weekend.