One hundred years ago, the world was a different place -- the Ford Motor Company sold 248,000 cars at $500 a piece, a gallon of gas cost 12 cents and the Cape Cod Canal opened to water traffic. The ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — A few days after the first shovel was thrust into the central New York state dirt on July 4, 1817, to ceremoniously begin the building of the Erie Canal, the real work got started. A ...

Editor's note: This story ran in Yakima Magazine in March 2019. We are rerunning it in lieu of the "It Happened Here" history column this week because of heightened interest in the canal in light of ...

Completed in 1914, the Panama Canal is a marvel of modern engineering. An artificial 51-mile waterway that cuts through the Isthmus of Panama, the Canal connects the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea ...

One hundred years ago, on August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened when the S. S. Ancon steamed through from the Atlantic to the Pacific side. The debut was quieter than intended because it ...

It's been almost a year since New Smyrna Beach received a $1.35 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help clean and restore 1.3 miles of the Turnbull Canal. In June 2023, the city ...

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Panama City, Panama – The first-ever Panama Canal 2012 International Engineering and Infrastructure Congress, to be held April 18-20 in Panama City, will bring together technical experts and ...

As if there's not been donnybrook enough around the failed New Orleans outfall canal floodwalls, regional levee commissioners are floating a counterintuitive idea: After the Army Corps of Engineers ...

The Army Corps of Engineers will begin excavation work on the 17th Street Canal this morning to try to find the source of water that has been sporadically seeping up in spots along the canal levee in ...