Erie News

Police say the body of a missing suburban Detroit boater has been recovered from Lake Erie.

A Plymouth Township man is missing and presumed drowned after his boat drifted from a Lake Erie inlet Monday afternoon as he and a friend swam.

The Monroe County sheriff's department and the U.S. Coast Guard are searching for a suburban Detroit man missing on Lake Erie.

Lake Erie but now their back and safe on dry land. It's a story we first broke on 6 News.

The four fishermen had bobbed in the waves for hours, watching helplessly as searchers missed spotting the hull of their capsized boat floating in Lake Erie's western basin.

One of four fishermen rescued after they were found holding on to their 19-foot boat in western Lake Erie says a heavy catch of walleye may have led their boat to capsize.

"Of course we're elated," David Zachman said. Zachman and his wife Bonnie got the news they were hoping and praying for.

The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for 4 fishermen on Lake Erie. The men launched their boat from Sterling State Park Thursday at 8:00 a.m. in Monroe County, Michigan.

Monroe -- The U.S. Coast Guard is searching Lake Erie this morning, looking for four fishermen who have not been heard from in 24 hours.

A body has been found on the shoreline of Lake Erie near the city of Luna Pier. The Monroe County Sheriff's Office reports a man kayaking with his sons made the discovery Thursday afternoon around 5 p.m. on the shoreline south of Toledo Beach Marina.

Dan Stefanski still remembers when the catfish died. In 1995, Stefanski watched as a state employee raised a cage of catfish from the bottom of the River Raisin, where they'd been dropped the day before to test whether river sediment was contaminated with dangerous polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs.

It's time to be patriotic and root for the red, white and blue. Cityfest fills Detroit's New Center Area with music, food and family fun from Wednesday-Sunday. There are fireworks on Friday and Saturday at four Metroparks and old-fashioned family fun at Northville's Mill Race Village on Saturday.

Government bureaucrats and shipping industry executives in the United States and Canada are gearing up for a grand occasion, much like a married couple preparing to celebrate a golden wedding anniversary.

A search for a missing man in Lake Erie ended tragically Tuesday afternoon. The U.S. Coast Guard recovered the body of 30-year-old Robert Coleman.

The U.S. Coast Guard says a Detroit man has died while rescuing a friend from a dangerous current on Lake Erie near the Michigan-Ohio border.

The U.S. Coast Guard recovered from Lake Erie the body of a man two hours after he went missing in the water on Ottawa River late Tuesday morning, authorities said.

A fisherman drowned Tuesday in Lake Erie, but not before saving his friend's life.

Several Bedford Township residents were honored during the 2009 Monroe County Michigan Week Awards ceremony.

This is the weekend to spend along the Detroit River. Detroit River Days is a three-day festival along the Detroit RiverWalk featuring three stages of live entertainment and a Kids Zone full of activities and performances, as well as Ultimate Air Dogs, Tall Ships and Sunday's Pooch-a-Palooza. Summer Discovery Cruises aboard the Schoolship Clinton ...

Monroe has high hopes of becoming a big player in the nation's wind-energy boom someday because of a parts manufacturer that has agreed to build a $19 million factory there.