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LSSU releases its 2023 Banished Word List

Sault Ste. Marie, MI — Stop resorting to imprecise, trite, and meaningless words and terms of seeming convenience! You’re taking the lazy way out and only confusing matters by over-relying on inexact, stale, and inane communication! Language monitors across the country and around the world decried the decrepitude and futility of […]

New Lock at the Soo reauthorized in WRDA 2022 at $3.219 billion

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. – U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District New Lock at the Soo Project in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan is reauthorized in the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) 2022 on Dec 23, 2022. The project reauthorization amount is $3.219 billion. An authorization sets how much money agencies and […]

Winter Storm has been updated to Blizzard Warning

According to EUP News Meteorologist Jim Lehocky, conditions have changed in the weather models causing the upcoming winter storm to be categorized as a Blizzard Warning, especially on Friday afternoon into Saturday. Starting around 7 pm tonight (Thursday) we can start to expect heavy snowfall through the night with winds […]

Piece of Mackinac Bridge now resides at South Pole

ST. IGNACE, Mich. ­- Since the Mackinac Bridge Authority started selling pieces of the original deck grating as it’s replaced, it’s safe to say that pieces have made their way to many spots far from the Straits of Mackinac. You would be hard-pressed, however, to take one farther away than Brendan Fisher […]

Major Winter Storm Will Impact Holiday Weekend Travel

A major winter storm is expected to develop in the Texas Panhandle tonight then move NE towards the Great Lakes late Thursday through Friday. It is expected to exit the region Saturday afternoon. Snow should be falling Thursday well ahead of the storm. The snow is expected to increase Thursday […]

Did you know Lakes and Streams change with the seasons?

By: Jacob Hartman – Watersheds Technician, CLMCD When the snow starts to fall and ice beings to cover our lakes and streams, it would seem that aquatic life ceases to exist.  However, any fisherman knows that fish are most definitely still active under the ice and aquatic insects still crawl […]