Hello! I'm covering Niagara County for 7 News WKBW. If you have a story idea, please email me at [email protected] NORTH TONAWANDA, N.Y. (WKBW) — Just in time for this year’s Canal Fest of the ...

ON THE RIVER STORT, England — It takes only minutes for Jenny Poulton to get her house underway. On an August afternoon, she pulled up steel stakes, locked the cats inside and was off, moving her ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Ohio (WTVG) - With the weather looking a little better for the holiday weekend, Providence Metropark might be the place to go. The historic canal experience is now open for the summer!

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Life on the Erie Canal in the 19th century is being kept alive by a local historian. Victoria Schmitt, a local independent culture historian, has studied the Erie Canal and Rochester ...

On a canal boat, you can "step back in time to a slower era", said Paul Miles in The Telegraph. There are over 5,000 miles of inland waterways in the UK, snaking through some of the country's most ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — When the replica Erie Canal boat Seneca Chief navigates into the Rondout Creek as part of a statewide tour commemorating the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Erie Canal and ...

I recently read “The Mohawk” by Codman Hislop,  who taught American Civilization at Union College in Schenectady, New York.

Marion S. Kelsey was the last person to pilot a boat across the Erie Canal's Rochester aqueduct in 1919. He spent 50 years piloting boats on the canal, with his favorite vessel being the steam packet ...