Just bought a boat? Or just traded up? Want some help learning to dock it, or reverse, or figure out the fancy gadgets? The North Coast Sail & Power Squadron is offering a free two-hour class in boat basics, on your own boat. The Jump Start Program is new this year. The goal for the…

Need a beach chair? What about an ice cream sandwich? Or sand toys for the kids? The volunteers at Shore Thing can supply just about any lake necessity from their shed at Main Street Beach in Vermilion, near the small town’s iconic lighthouse. The group, which this year became part of the nonprofit Main Street…

CLEVELAND, Ohio — The official harmful algal bloom forecast for Lake Erie shows some improvement from last year, but is still worse than the levels in 2016. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration with the Ohio Sea Grant and the Ohio State University predict a severity of 6 out of 10, while in 2017, the…

Electrofishing sounds like something from science fiction: generate an electric current in the water, zap the fish and scoop them up. But that’s one way the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District checks water quality of the Cuyahoga River and about two dozen other streams and rivers each year. The number of fish, and number of…

Lake Erie Energy Development Co., or LEEDCo., has been planning wind turbines in Lake Erie for a decade. With six turbines 8 miles north of Cleveland, the nonprofit LEEDCo. hopes to prove the technology can work here, as the first offshore wind farm in North America. The $126 million, 20.7-megawatt project dubbed Icebreaker could open…