The Erie Canal, a major achievement in transportation infrastructure that connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean and ignited American economic development, was completed on this day in ...

Wednesday marked a nautical farewell for three local Erie Canal tour boats.The Riverie, Sam Path and Colonial Belle made a ...

7 Ways to Celebrate the Erie Canal's 200th Birthday When construction began in 1817, the proposed 339-mile-long Erie Canal connecting the Hudson River at Albany, New York, to Lake Erie at Buffalo ...

The Riverie, Sam Patch, and Colonial Belle embarked on a collective journey along the Erie Canal Wednesday. The flotilla ...

A 3 p.m. Friday ceremony is planned to commemorate a new state historical transportation marker recognizing New Castle’s ...

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 ...

CANAJOHARIE — The Erie Canal celebrates its 200th anniversary next year. At Arkell Museum, the public was invited to a mini-symposium Saturday to learn of the canal from local historians. Mary ...

LOCKPORT, N.Y. — Two people in Lockport who were boating down the Erie Canal on Saturday spotted and rescued a missing dog that had wandered to the canal’s edge. Louis and Amanda McIntyre of ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — A 54-year-old man was rescued by City of Tonawanda Police after he fell off a bridge and into the Erie Canal Thursday night, police said Friday. Police were called after ...

On Saturday, May 25, the community is invited to attend an inauguration event, recognizing the completion of the Erie Canal Boat Seneca Chief – the first boat to open the Erie Canal nearly 200 ...

The Erie Canal Museum’s Executive Director, Natalie Stenson, and Director of Education and Public Programs, Derrick Pratt, recently joined Beyond the Front Page with Guy Cosentino to explore the ...