Press Releases & News Items

Angharad Stockwell, Scottish Canals’ Records Manager and Data Protection Officer,  shares her blog as this year’s Remembrance Day marks 100 years since the end of…

Due to reduced staffing levels, and operational safety restrictions at Fort Augustus, boaters should plan for extra time to transit through the Middle District…

Boat trips will be unavailable from Monday 5th November whilst essential maintenance work is carried out at The Falkirk Wheel, and will resume on Sunday…

A pioneering new digital surface water drainage system will unlock 110 hectares across the north of the Glasgow for investment, regeneration and development with the construction of Europe’s first ever ‘smart canal’ scheme.

“The doubters, the grumblers, the prophets and the sneerers, were all put to silence” – Inverness Courier, October 1822 First opened on October 23rd…

Following the embankment surveys that were carried out in 2017, we will be progressing two phases of vital embankment works on the Union Canal…

The widespread regeneration of North Glasgow is set to continue with a 600-strong housing development now underway on the former Diageo distillery site in…

Following the temporary suspension of boat transits through Twechar and Bonnybridge lift bridges on the Forth & Clyde Canal, we’re have undertaken further technical investigations. Updates…

The first ever National Refill Day comes as it’s revealed that an overwhelming majority of the British public are concerned about plastic pollution. The…