Dozens cheered as a wooden canal boat was pulled into Schenectady’s Mohawk Harbor on Tuesday afternoon, marking a stark ...

Schenectady and New York state are celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal this month. On Tuesday, Oct. 14, a ...

As Mayor Jonathan Taylor attempted to read his welcoming address celebrating the arrival of the Seneca Chief, his microphone ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — The Erie Canal boat “Seneca Chief” set sail from Buffalo on Wednesday morning to commemorate the canal’s 200th anniversary. People packed the commercial slip at Canalside to see ...

LOCKPORT — The Erie Canal changed the landscape, fueled the westward settlement of the United States, and created Lockport. The city will celebrate Erie Canal Bicentennial Week starting Sunday with a ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — A replica original Erie Canal barge will stop at the Hudson River Maritime Museum on Oct. 21-22 as part of a 500-mile, 28-stop statewide tour celebrating the opening of the Erie Canal ...

When I started writing this column, my objective was to bust myths about the economy. In a world fraught with disinformation and lies, it’s important to set the record straight. As was the case in my ...

The Erie Canal is largely quiet now, but when the Seneca Chief set sail for Manhattan from Buffalo, New York, on September 24, 1825, this inaugural voyage heralded a century-long revenue stream.

Clarkson, N.Y. — A passenger drowned and a driver was taken into custody following a pursuit of a U-Haul truck that ended in the Erie Canal near the Monroe-Orleans county line Tuesday night, according ...

WATERFORD, N.Y. — If Cirque du Soleil on a fully independent, rocking boat sounds like a person’s ideal night out, then Flotsam! River Circus is not for them. By attending their circus on the water, ...

Although the Wabash & Erie Canal rolled through Terre Haute in the 1800s, virtually no evidence of its existence is available today. That will change when Lock 47, part of where the canal once coursed ...