The U.S. Senate on Tuesday approved adding the Safe Haven Holocaust Refugee Shelter Museum to the national park system.

New York is handing the reins of its historic canal system to a familiar upstate leader. Governor Kathy Hochul announced December 15 that Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh will serve as the next director of ...

Syracuse, N.Y. – Mayor Ben Walsh will start a new job in February as director of the state Canal Corp., which oversees New ...

Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh was hired by the New York Power Authority as the next Director of the New York State Canal ...

Ever had that moment when the city’s concrete jungle starts feeling like it’s actually growing vines around your ankles? Oswego, New York is the machete you didn’t know you needed – a waterfront ...

Soon after the Oswego Canal was opened between Salina and Oswego on April 28, 1829, a mechanic from Oswego named Ogden Mallory thought operating a steamboat on the new waterway might work. Prior to ...

Several sections of the state canal system have been impacted again by the heavy rainfall from earlier this week. On the Erie Canal, Lock 24 in Baldwinsville to Lock 25 in Mays Point is closed. The ...

LITTLE FALLS — The New York State canal system has come a long way since mules pulled packet boats from along the banks of the venerable Erie Canal — however, the waterway system that opened the West ...

The New York State Canal Corp. announced Wednesday that the New York State Canal system will open in phases beginning Friday due to severe weather in the Mohawk Valley. Significant rainfall throughout ...

Instead of opening all at once, the canal system will open in phases, with the Erie Canal from Lyons (Wayne County) through the locks in Lockport opening on May 16. Significant rainfall has created ...

Some day the country will undoubtedly dig itself an adequate steamer channel connecting the Atlantic with its inland seas, the Great Lakes. The midwestern farmer wants it badly so that he can pocket ...