LAKE ERIE BEACH, N.Y. — Now that there has been the tease of spring-like weather in Western New York, people have begun wandering out to the Lake Erie shoreline to catch some fresh air.

Sand lines a Lake Erie beach at Presque Isle State Park in Erie in 2022. Photo courtesy U.S. Army Corps of Engineers via the Center Square Studying the viability of renewable energy projects on Lake ...

The NYSDEC says that millions of alewife fish were killed this winter due to the substantial ice coverage along Lake Erie.