The initial digging of Duluth’s ship canal was fairly simple. The steam-powered dredging tug Ishpeming began chewing through Minnesota Point in September 1870, stopped when the ground froze in ...

According to legend, the Duluth ship canal was completed in three days. As the legend goes, every man, woman, and child in the city grabbed a shovel to help dig the canal. Why the rush?

Dave Yragui says he's helping his neighbors after a decade of inaction by the Kenai Peninsula Borough, which says his canal is illegal.

When the Erie Canal has been developed to accommodate 1,000-ton barges, the Cape Cod Canal will mean also a continuous waterway from the Great Lakes to Boston and other important coast points, a ...

As the nation celebrates Independence Day, another historical event from July 4 is remembered. On July 4 in 1817, ...

No machines. No modern tools. Just two skilled men, hard work, and nature. Watch as they build a breathtaking fish pond completely by hand—from digging and shaping to filling and decorating. A ...

Similarly, the Taliban, as Ashley Jackson of the Centre on Armed Groups, an nGO, puts it, are using the Qosh Tepa Canal to project “autonomy, independence and strength”.

Construction began in 1859, with conscripted Egyptian peasants digging through the earth by hand and pick. Work was hard and slow, beset by poor weather; disease; and a cruel, inefficient labor ...

The crowd gathered this sweltering March morning at the Panama Canal's visitors center was there mostly to watch multistory tankers and container-laden ships make their interoceanic journeys.

Egypt has launched the digging of a new canal which will run in parallel to the Suez Canal.