This story appears in the May 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. Grand Canal barges have no fancy names, no mermaids planted on the bow, no corny sayings painted on the stern. Instead ...

A barge has sunk and blocked a canal in Coventry. West Midlands Fire Service said they were called to the Oxford Canal between bridges four and five on Sunday to search the sunken barge.

The timing of a proclamation renaming the Cross Florida Barge Canal to the American Freedom Canal drew opposition on Tuesday as Citrus County Commissioner Jeff Kinnard asked to have it ...

Commercial barges have been banned from a canal in West Yorkshire after a spate of fish deaths were recorded. The Canal and River Trust (CRT) said in just one incident last month dozens of fish ...