Two lucky tickets sold in Genesee County, one worth $1 million and another $100,000, were among the winners in the New York Lottery’s special Million Dollar Raffle ...

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

On Oct. 26, 1825, the Erie Canal, the United States' first man-made waterway, was opened, linking the Great Lakes and ...

If you bought a ticket for the New York Lottery’s special Million Dollar Raffle, now is absolutely the time to dig it out.

The Seneca Chief moves at 19th-century speed — it took about five hours to travel the roughly 18 miles between Amsterdam and ...

The New York Lottery's Million Dollar Raffle—inspired by the Erie Canal bicentennial celebration—resulted in 5,505 winning ...

One particularly harmful invasive species that used the Erie Canal to access the Hudson River is the round goby.

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

Two centuries after the Erie Canal was opened with a triumphant boat trip from Buffalo to New York City, a brightly painted ...

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

Before the Erie canal was completed in 1825, it could take around three weeks to ship perishable goods between New York and ...

Over District” gave birth to new churches after the Erie Canal’s creation: Joseph Smith founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, often known as Mormons, in Fayette, New York, in 1830.