Some area lakes, including Lake Memphremagog and Joe's Pond, have a tradition of guessing when the ice will disappear. Vermont DEC wants you to tell them when your local lake is ice-free.

Rick Levey leaned over the side of a motorboat last week and dipped a long metal scoop into the marshy mouth of the Barton River where it enters Lake Memphremagog. Over his shoulder, the hulking ...

View of Lake Memphremagog from a hill near Mansonville, Eastern Townships, Quebec. Photo by Kevstan/Wikimedia Commons Scientists have found invasive zebra mussels in Vermont’s section of Lake ...

A Canadian university has launched a program to monitor Lake Memphremagog’s water quality and health. The University of Sherbrooke announced the move to establish a “permanent observatory” on ...

On a bright Sunday in July, between bites of brunch, a few dozen passengers savored the sights from the Northern Star. Cruising on Lake Memphremagog, which straddles the U.S./Québec border, they ...

Zebra mussels, an invasive species, have been confirmed in Lake Memphremagog on the U.S. side, posing environmental and economic threats. The mussels were first detected on the Canadian side of the ...

NEWPORT CITY, Vt. (AP) — State environmental officials approved a plan to clean up phosphorous from Lake Memphremagog, the waterway that straddles the border between Vermont and Quebec. The Caledonian ...

For the last six years, Phil White of Derby has overseen the annual Kingdom Swim on Lake Memphremagog. After years of playing pond hockey when that surface is frozen, he has just discovered a new ...

A Lake Champlain cruise boat is getting a new home on another Vermont lake. The boat Northern Star was taken out of the water Monday in Burlington and moved by truck to Newport on Tuesday where it is ...

A local historian says she saw the Lake Memphremagog monster this month. Newport resident Barbara Malloy said she saw the creature, known to some as Memphre, May 1 in the 30-mile-long lake shared by ...

When Natalie Lang jumps in the water and begins swimming, her sense of time, direction and hearing sink to the depths of the open water, and instead, she lets her body do the work, stroke by stroke, ...