The Lockport Locks Heritage District Corporation (LHDC) has secured almost $1.2 million of state funding for a new round of ...

A few months ago, a reader requested an article about the history of Hall & Cary Weaving & Belting Company, formerly known as Empire Manufacturing. Additionally, as I recently researched ...

In recent years, the Chicago River itself has undergone a renaissance, from a lifeless industrial waterway into a vibrant ...

In the update from a City of Lockport Police Detective at 1:41 p.m. on Friday they said that Kristine M. Adams was found deceased in the canal. Lockport Police had asked for the community's ...

The Village of Wilson has secured two state grants to undertake planning for improvements in it waterworks and its commercial district. Earlier this week, Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office released the full ...

28—The Lockport Locks Heritage District Corporation ... and $150,000 from the state Canal Corporation, all in pursuit of further improvements to the remnants of historic Erie Canal locks ...

Among the projects, the Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo received a $3 million award to support construction of a ...

Jeff Tracy shot the cover of the 2025 calendar, which depicts fireworks over Locks 34 and 35 in Lockport. New York State Canal Corporation Director Brian Stratton said the calendar commemorates ...

“The Bills are the great equalizer,” said Mr. Richardson, who grew up in Lockport, N.Y., about 35 miles east on the Erie Canal. “Sometimes it feels so divided out there. But we get every ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first in a series of articles by members of the City of Lockport Erie Canal Bicentennial Committee advancing details about local events amid the New York state-wide ...

Many other towns along the Erie Canal have seen their Main Streets decay ... throughout the United States – Main Street in Lockport is a disastrous local example – were virtually destroyed.