MIDDLEPORT — Royalton Hartland Community Library will host the presentation “The Irish and the Building of the Erie Canal” at 6 p.m. Tuesday. Tim Bohen, the author of “Against the Grain: The History ...

Dive into one of the most ambitious and ultimately failed infrastructure projects of the modern era , Nicaragua’s plan to build its own canal. With global shipping traffic growing at an explosive rate ...

Panama is effectively a borderland between Central and South America, and its famous canal — built in the early 1900s — slices the country in two. This 51-mile waterway is a giant shortcut ...