Diagram by Dogo. Expansion plans for the Panama Canal call for two new sets of triple locks--one at the Atlantic entrance to the waterway and one at the Pacific.

Lock gates along parts of the Leeds-Liverpool canal have been closed after water levels dropped due to a lack of recent rainfall. The Canals and River Trust said lock use has been suspended between ...

“Clonk clonk clonk, I’m not even kidding you... all day long,” said neighbor Jeffrey Triffinger. The lock on the Industrial ...

The Canal and River Trust said Grantham Canal's Lock 14 was "painstakingly rebuilt brick-by-brick". The three-year project, paid for with £830,500 of National Heritage Lottery funding, ...

Scaffolding is seen at Erie Canal Lock 5 where a state Canal Corporation employee fell and had to be rescued on Wednesday in Waterford. Lori Van Buren/Times Union.

Experts have completed a painstaking 10-week process to replace two sets of lock gates on the Sheffield and Tinsley Canal. Worn-out gates were replaced at the top and bottom ends of the 200-year ...

It was built for a time when boats regularly navigated the North New River Canal. The Sewell Lock, built in 1912, was used to move boats from one elevation in the waterway to another. It was a time… ...

Canal & River Trust volunteers are removing debris and litter from Tuel Lane Lock, on the Rochdale Canal in Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire, in preparation for the busier boating months ahead.

The Army Corps of Engineers' latest plan to build a new Industrial Canal lock drew sharp criticism Wednesday night from activists who say the controversial project unfairly puts shipping interests ...

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) -- Work to open six lock houses for lodging on the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park -- seen as an extraordinary way to give people a taste of life on the old ...

One human lifetime. That’s how long we’ve been debating whether the lock of the Industrial Canal should be widened — “we” meaning shipping interests, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ...