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 ...

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 ...

WIESBADEN, Germany -- Considered one of the seven wonders of the modern world by the American Society of Civil Engineers, it makes sense two engineers with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Europe ...

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 ...

Two out-of-state engineers who were selected to assess 17th Street Canal seepage and stability will get a first-hand look at the site Thursday and discuss the high-profile job with regional levee ...

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 ...

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 ...

Panama City, Panama - The Panama Canal Authority will host its first-ever best practices Engineering and Infrastructure Congress, in an effort to share best practices and detailed, practical, hands-on ...