There was a time when canals were part of the roadways of America east of the Mississippi River, connecting the small towns and villages to the big cities and allowing merchants and farmers to move ...

Indiana is working on plans to build a $25 million state archives building on the Central Canal downtown, taking up green space and adding another institutional user to the Canal Walk. The canal site, ...

A new archaeological project seeks to learn more about Indiana's canal period. About a hundred and fifty years ago Indiana nearly bankrupted itself building a statewide canal system. The episode was ...

METAMORA, Ind. (WISH) — The Whitewater Canal State Historic Site may be getting a lifeline, the site’s parent organization announced. News 8 first reported on the historic site’s demise on June 17. In ...

A new study supports an earlier report that found polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in sediments lining the Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal in East Chicago, Ind. The study also presents data showing that ...

METAMORA, Ind. — What’s often referred to as “Indiana’s Canal Town” in Franklin County has dried up. Metamora’s Whitewater Canal isn’t flowing at the moment, and it hasn’t been for quite some time now ...

After months of public outcry, state and federal officials have agreed to investigate an alternative option for off-site disposal of contaminated sediment dredged from the Indiana Harbor and Shipping ...

HAMMOND, Ind.HAMMOND, Ind. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says a $26 million cleanup will begin this month of contamination on the Lake George Canal in northwestern Indiana. The EPA says ...

The Canal Society of Indiana has about 400 members, said Carolyn Schmidt, Bob’s wife and group historian who creates a monthly publication running anywhere from 24- to 100-plus pages, full of ...

EAST CHICAGO, Ind. (AP) - More sediment will be removed from an Indiana canal to allow barges with full loads to use waterway. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to dredge 182,300 cubic yards (139 ...