The canal began upon the shores of Lake Erie in Buffalo and traversed about 350 miles east, where it made a sudden southward turn around Troy and emptied into the Hudson River in downtown Albany.

Long before airways, highways, and even railways crisscrossed the country, rivers – our great waterways – were used regularly ...

"There's also a little canal that goes into that gate ... so it could be anywhere along Lake Erie shoreline.

By monitring upstream watersheds, Michigan expects to give farmers a better idea of where farm runoff is transporting ...

The full-sized replica of the Erie Canal boat “Seneca Chief” is wintering in Lockport’s Flight of Five Locks before it leaves again for Buffalo in May. The Buffalo Maritime Center built the boat ...

The replica of the Erie Canal Boat, Seneca Chief, built within the Longshed at Canalside over the course of four years, is off to the next leg of its journey. On Tuesday, May 7 at around 11am ...

The recent Fall Family Fishing Fest is still offering good fishing at the Ohio & Erie Canal Reservation off East 49th Street ...

For many people (including this author) who are Erie Canal enthusiasts, today, October 26th, is one of the most influential ...

Western Lake Erie is an ideal environment for the bacteria to thrive: It’s about 30 feet deep, the shallowest part of the shallowest Great Lake, and it heats up faster when temperatures are warm.

OREGON, Ohio (AP) — On a warm late-summer evening, a small speedboat motored across a pea-green stretch of Lake Erie past a beach where a child sat splashing and a pair of newlyweds waded for a ...