Editor's note: This story ran in Yakima Magazine in March 2019. We are rerunning it in lieu of the "It Happened Here" history column this week because of heightened interest in the canal in light of ...

Completed in 1914, the Panama Canal is a marvel of modern engineering. An artificial 51-mile waterway that cuts through the Isthmus of Panama, the Canal connects the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea ...

It's been almost a year since New Smyrna Beach received a $1.35 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help clean and restore 1.3 miles of the Turnbull Canal. In June 2023, the city ...

Even with the water-saving basins incorporated into the new set of locks, more than 50 million gallons of freshwater is lost from the Panama Canal with every ship's passage. A drought of historic ...

Low water levels on Gatun Lake which comprises 21 miles of the Panama Canal's 50-mile-long course impacted transits significantly last year. Panama’s highest court on July 2 struck down a law that ...

As if there's not been donnybrook enough around the failed New Orleans outfall canal floodwalls, regional levee commissioners are floating a counterintuitive idea: After the Army Corps of Engineers ...