Boat owners and businesses stranded on a 17-mile (27km) stretch of drought-affected canal say they could be trapped for months. The locks at Gargrave, near Skipton, and the Bingley Five Rise Locks on ...

In 1905, a breach in the Alamo Canal caused massive flooding that created California’s Salton Sea, submerging towns and damaging infrastructure. Join us as we explore the remains of the canal and the ...

On Aug. 7, 1978, President Jimmy Carter declared a federal health emergency at Love Canal, just five days after Dr. Robert Whalen, state health commissioner, issued New York's own emergency ...

It's been 55 years since a terrible and tragic explosion turned the Manchester Ship Canal into a 'river of fire'.

The Central New York community is invited to take a step back in time this weekend to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal. The Buffalo Maritime Center’s replica of the Erie Canal Boat ...

Baldwinsville, N.Y. – The “Seneca Chief” sailed into Baldwinsville’s Paper Mill Island Friday evening, its polished wooden frame catching the fading sunlight as a crowd gathered along the canal’s edge ...