The Erie Canal Harbor Development Corporation has approved a $1.6 million design contract for cruise ships on Lake Erie.

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 ...

State officials hope to begin construction on a cruise ship terminal at the Outer Harbor by early next year, with completion ...

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 ...

Construction of the Patowmack Canal began in 1785 and took 17 years, with a series of canals and locks built to navigate the Potomac’s rapids, most famously at Great Falls.

Original manuscripts and images of the original Erie Canal construction. Skip Dickstein/Times Union On July 4, 1817, a shovel full of dirt, dug in Rome, marked the start of the original Erie Canal.

Community leaders share how the construction of the Erie Canal impacted the Haudenosaunee people. The Erie Canal helped build a nation, but devastated the Haudenosaunee. Leaders of the ...

A. The 27-mile-long Middlesex Canal in Massachusetts. It was in use in 1803 and was one of the first canals built in America.

Despite construction in Fairport, with a $3.5 million culvert replacement project over Thomas Creek blocking Main Street north of the Erie Canal, crowds seemed undeterred. "I did not notice the ...

A boat makes a morning trip through the Erie Canal in Rochester, New York, October 2021. Johnny Milano Former President Thomas Jefferson considered the proposal “little short of madness.” The ...