New cruise ships and new ways to experience favorite destinations top our list of 2026's best family vacation ideas.

Piping plover populations around the Great Lakes plunged in the 1980s. Conservation efforts have helped the numbers grow to record highs.

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After a nearly two-year legal fight, Ogden Dunes officials have dropped plans for a stone revetment along the Lake Michigan shoreline, Save the Dunes Executive Director Betsy Maher said. The stone ...

EMPIRE, MI -- The philanthropic arm of Michigan’s most visited national park received a major boost to its budget with a $100,000 grant. The Friends of Sleeping Bear Dunes, the National Lakeshore’s ...

EMPIRE — Federal workers at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore came back to the office today to collect back pay and get started on key projects. The shutdown put them behind schedule on clean-up ...

Alaska law prohibits waking a sleeping bear, even to take a photo, addressing one of the state’s most dangerous wildlife interactions, in which tourists and photographers risk fatal encounters for ...

The weekend's violent nor'easter overtook Jersey Shore beaches and reached the dunes in some communities. Some officials began the damage assessment on the afternoon of Oct. 13, as the storm-swollen ...

EMPIRE — The federal government shutdown is affecting national parks around the country, including Northern Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes. Despite a large portion of employees being furloughed and ...

TYBEE ISLAND, Ga. (WTOC) -Erosion is affecting beaches throughout the coastal empire, but on Tybee Island, the dunes that are meant to guard the island from the ocean, are deteriorating quickly. These ...