Yet shortly after the locks opened in 1825, completing a man-made waterway that connected the Hudson River to the Great Lakes, the critics were silenced, and the Erie Canal, one of the greatest ...

The Chagres snaked across the canal route a total of 14 times. Ignoring the warnings of engineers who deemed the task impossible, de Lesseps' decided to dam and divert the river, which he had only ...

Zhenjiang, seventy kilometers west of Nanjing, lies on the south bank of the Yangtze River in central Jiangsu Province. The Beijing-Shanghai Railway passes the city, and the Grand Canal and the ...

Owned by the Canal & River Trust, it still does the job it was designed to do, lifting boats and barges the 50 feet from the River Weaver to the Trent & Mersey Canal. Throughout the year ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI —City leaders gathered Wednesday to celebrate a $9.8 million renovation of Canal Park that’s now underway along the Grand River in Grand Rapids’ Monroe North neighborhood.

Cambodia and China have signed a $1.2 billion deal to finance an ambitious canal project that aims to boost trade efficiency by linking a branch of the Mekong River near Phnom Penh to a port on the ...