The Erie Canal, once mocked as “Clinton’s Ditch,” was built 200 years ago by Governor DeWitt Clinton. Now, his five times ...

This past August, a Good Samaritan was walking near a canal in California when they noticed a small animal struggling along ...

2024 has been a remarkable year as we look forward to celebrating the upcoming 200th anniversary of the completion of building the Erie Canal. The central theme for this next year’s celebration ...

DeWitt Clinton — a mayor of New York City, U.S. senator from New York, four-time governor of the state and presidential candidate — probably never really warmed up to Schenectady. Clinton, the man ...

Marion S. Kelsey was the last person to pilot a boat across the Erie Canal's Rochester aqueduct in 1919. He spent 50 years piloting boats on the canal, with his favorite vessel being the steam packet ...

Schenectady and New York state are celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal this month. On Tuesday, Oct. 14, a replica of the Seneca Chief, the historic packet boat that carried Gov. DeWitt ...

The superhighway of its day, the Erie Canal helped connect the eastern part of the nation with the West. This was a boon to ...

Georgetown Heritage will resume its public boat rides along the C&O Canal on May 5. That’s two years earlier than previously reported last fall, when it was still unclear whether a tentative ...

One person died and 11 people were injured after a tour boat capsized Monday in a water tunnel for the Erie Canal in upstate New York, officials said. All 29 people on the boat were thrown into the ...

On Friday, I made my way driving through the rain and felt a sense of relief when the lighthouse finally came into view. Even though I was in my car and not in a small boat on Lake Pontchartrain, I ...

A professional bass fishing tournament nearly ended in tragedy on March 19, when two competing boats collided in a narrow canal, with one boat landing directly on top of the other. The boat wreck ...