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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Even with the water-saving basins incorporated into the new set of locks, more than 50 million gallons of freshwater is lost from the Panama Canal with every ship's passage. A drought of historic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This video shows timelapse footage of HS2 engineers sliding a 130-metre-long steel viaduct into place over a canal near Leamington.