The cost of widening the Industrial Canal lock has ballooned to $1.3 billion from a 2003 estimate of $770 million, according to a report released by the Army Corps of Engineers.The project -- long ...

Rehabilitation work has been completed at Lock Number 47, located on the Union Canal towpath between the Berks County Heritage Center and Reber’s Bridge in Bern Township. The work had begun in early ...

From their vantage point in cranes overlooking the Panama Canal, operators scrutinize the century-old walls of one of its locks as the high-pitched siren of a merchant ship resonates from nearby. In ...

More than a half-century after Congress authorized building a replacement for the Industrial Canal's navigation lock, optimism is rising among some maritime industry officials that the nearly $1 ...

Reader question: Why are the Appleton locks closed? When will they be open to boaters? Answer: The Fox River locks are billed as the only fully restored, hand-operated lock system in the nation.

I transited the Panama Canal and discovered how Theodore Roosevelt's impossible dream became reality through determination ...

A sign notes the route for the Erie and Champlain canals at Waterford Harbor on May 16 in Waterford. Lock No. 5 on Saturday in Waterford. The Erie Canal Lock 2 at Waterford Harbor on May 16. The view ...

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 ...

The New York State Canal Corp. won't agree to any restoration work on the original Erie Canal locks in the city if it interferes with current canal operations, the committee leading the project was ...