Sunday marked the 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal, and Fairport residents celebrated with a proper birthday party ...

Veteran Sailing is a non-profit organization founded by former Marine Brian Forristal, which provides veterans with a positive outlet to find peace and camaraderie on the open water.

The Seneca Chief, a recreation of the first boat to travel the length of the Erie Canal, arrived in New York City on Sunday, ...

Two centuries after New York Gov. DeWitt Clinton opened the Erie Canal with a triumphant boat trip from Buffalo to New York ...

Initially, the canal was just 4 feet deep and 40 feet wide, but it cut through fields and forests, cliffs and swamps, and ...

Sam Skinner has a very minimalist lifestyle. He needs just £12,000 a year to live on, having swapped bricks and mortar for a ...

Trade the crowds of Venice for equally charming cities across Europe, South America, and Asia, where boats glide through ...

The Erie Canal solidified New York’s reputation as the Empire State, but it also opened up an expressway for invasive species to reach the Great Lakes.

For 15 years, Marion S. Kelsey piloted the William B. Kirk between Rochester and Buffalo. The wooden-hulled boat was ...

DeWitt Clinton — a mayor of New York City, U.S. senator from New York, four-time governor of the state and presidential candidate — probably never really warmed up to Schenectady. Clinton, the man ...

Schenectady and New York state are celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal this month. On Tuesday, Oct. 14, a replica of the Seneca Chief, the historic packet boat that carried Gov. DeWitt ...

The waterway often known as the “Downtown Canal” or “Indianapolis Canal,” is in reality a segment of the Indiana Central Canal, a watery throughfare originally envisioned as traversing the state.