Lowdown: Located on an isthmus between Lake Michigan, Round Lake, and Lake Charlevoix, bisected by the Pine River along U.S. 31, which heads into Petoskey. Distinction: One of the best lake towns in ...

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Many of the publicly-owned properties along the San Joaquin River are closed, but there are a number of places where you can ...

Two Minnesota cities plan to start issuing speeding tickets from traffic cameras this summer. A 2024 law allows Mendota Heights and Minneapolis to test run traffic safety camera programs.

Lake Mendota had not been on the archaeologist’s radar, and she certainly wasn’t hunting for dugout canoes. Thomsen usually looks for shipwrecks, like 19th-century freighters.

In Japan, an Iceless Lake and an Absent God Sound an Ancient Warning For centuries, residents in central Japan have chronicled a mysterious natural phenomenon in winter.

Lake Mendota was already on the map for studies on limnology, Rohwer says. Now, researchers in other fields are already using the data set for their own inquiries into evolution, viruses and more.

In 1895, UW–Madison professor Edward Birge set out to answer a question he had about zooplankton in Lake Mendota after reading a French scientific paper, and his research marked the beginning of ...

Lake Mendota, Lake Monona, Lake Kegonsa and Lake Waubesa are all at their highest levels since summer of 2020, according to United States Geological Survey data available through the county department ...

Wisconsin archaeologists recently discovered 11 ancient canoes in Lake Mendota, outside Madison. The canoes were found in a cache that may have been an ancient shoreline.

Madison researchers discover 4,500-year-old canoe in Lake Mendota The researchers found almost a dozen canoes since 2021 ...