A U.S.-Canadian panel created to seek ways to clean up Lake Champlain wants to get public input before it issues its final report.

Scientists say they're seeing small signs of progress in cleaning up Lake Champlain. That's the good news. The bad news is that it will likely take decades to meet pollution reduction targets. And there probably won't be a big infusion of federal dollars to help Vermont achieve those goals.

Lake Champlain is freezing over less frequently and less extensively than it did decades ago.

A new collection by Daniel Lusk, Lake Studies: Meditations on Lake Champlain, finds inspiration in the shipwrecks and fossils beneath the surface of Lake Champlain.

A science program at the University of Vermont is going to use a $20 million grant, the largest in the school's history, to help study the health of the Lake Champlain basin.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says a warning has been lifted against using the water of southern Lake Champlain. That follows the application of chemicals to kill sea lamprey in two Vermont rivers.

Officials once feared that a long-sunken tugboat at the bottom of a Lake Champlain could be a looming environmental disaster.

Divers are braving the dark depths of Lake Champlain to see if there's still fuel on a tugboat that sank in 1963.

This is the time of year when toxic blue-green algae problems begin to crop up in Lake Champlain. Now, a new program has been launched to reduce the phosphorous that feeds the algae when it washes into the lake in stormwater runoff.

A special state loan program designed to help businesses that have suffered flood damages this spring will be made available across Vermont.

A lingering snow pack and warm heavy rains have contributed to  flood conditions, but the impact of all this water is also related to how we develop and use land adjacent to rivers and lakes.

The spring floods that have torn up roadways and damaged lakefront property are having an environmental impact as well. The high water has washed phosphorus and other pollutants downstream into Lake Champlain, and climate change could make the problem worse.

Many roads in northern Vermont are closed today because they're underwater or washed out from spring snowmelt and rainfall. State police and Vermont Emergency Management say a number of roads along the western slopes of the Green Mountains and in the Northeast Kingdom are affected.

Scientists and a corps of volunteers are launching an all-out assault on a tiny invasive clam in hopes of preventing it from befouling the crystal-clear waters Lake George.

When a Burlington wastewater plant released 2.5 million gallons of stormwater and untreated sewage into Lake Champlain this week, it was not an isolated incident. A state database shows that sewage spills are relatively common throughout the Lake Champlain basin.

The Burlington Public Works department says the Vermont city's sewage treatment plant is operating normally again after about 250,000 gallons of raw sewage was inadvertently released into Lake Champlain.

The Burlington Department of Public Works says operator error caused about 2.5 million gallons of untreated sewage and stormwater to flow into Lake Champlain.

The Vermont House has swept aside concerns about ‘government over-reaching' to advance a bill that would restrict fertilizer use on lawns.

Lawmakers want to help Lake Champlain by limiting the use of fertilizer spread on home lawns, because the phosphorus used to grow green grass can also feed the toxic algae in the big lake.

Last month, the EPA rejected Vermont's 9-year-old plan for reducing phosphorous pollution in the lake, saying it doesn't meet federal regulations.