The Erie Canal Bicentennial Festival is gearing up to celebrate New York's canal-side communities with a week full of events.

The New York State Canal Corporation has launched a new pilot program utilizing goats to manage vegetation on the steep, ...

Considered a marvel of engineering, the canal opened in Oct. 26, 1825, with great fanfare and became an engine of growth of ...

Why would Governor De Witt Clinton take the risk in building a 363-mile canal, nearly ten times the length of any existing Canal in the fledgling United States, to wed the waters of Lake Erie with the ...

Canadian writer Dan Rubinstein lashed camping gear to his stand-up paddleboard and embarked on an improbable solo voyage that ...

This week in Akron history, New York governor stayed overnight, Tadmor Shrine got a charter, Jesse Owens had surgery and ...

The state Canal Corporation on Friday announced the completion of a construction project to address persistent seepage along the Erie Canal’s earthen embankment in the town of Royalton. With the end ...

There were rain showers and then humidity, but it didn't deter 300 people from across New York and other states to help celebrate the Erie Canal's 200th anniversary. They took part in a 2.7 mile ...

Complex Legacies of the Erie Canal,” at Canalside in Buffalo commemorates the Erie Canal Bicentennial. The engaging new visitor experience, a 2,900-square-foot exhibit, invites guests of all ages and ...

The Erie Canal was completed 200 years ago, but you won’t need a time machine to witness the events that led up to the ...