Two centuries after the Erie Canal was opened with a triumphant boat trip from Buffalo to New York City, a brightly painted ...

For members of the Iroquois, or Haudenosaunee, Confederacy, the commemoration in 2025 of the bicentennial of the Erie Canal ...

Upstate New York has some beautiful areas that sit near the Erie Canal. This suburb of Rochester is a great place to go ...

The Seneca Chief moves at 19th-century speed — it took about five hours to travel the roughly 18 miles between Amsterdam and ...

Bicyclists make their way through downtown Albany on the final day of the 21st annual Cycle the Erie Canal tour on July 14, 2019, in Albany. More than 650 cyclists took part in the ride crossing New ...

It was a canalapalooza the week of Sept. 22 in western New York, with people coming from 10 countries to talk about these vital waterways. World Canals Conference 2025 was located in Buffalo due to ...

Initially, the canal was just 4 feet deep and 40 feet wide, but it cut through fields and forests, cliffs and swamps, and ...

More than any other historical event, the opening of the Erie Canal, on Oct. 26, 1825, set Chicago on the path to becoming the city it is today.

The Erie Canal, a 363-mile waterway stretching from Lake Erie to the Hudson River, fueled westward expansion and grew the fortunes of cities like Rochester and Buffalo. It was an idea so audacious ...

Democrat Michael Cashman and Republican Brent Davison are vying for a state Assembly seat in an upcoming special election; to mark the 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal, a replica boat is recreating ...

One particularly harmful invasive species that used the Erie Canal to access the Hudson River is the round goby.