Until engineers constructed the temporary dam in 1969, no one had seen the bare rock face of American Falls since March 30, 1848, when an ice jam from Lake Erie stopped the Niagara River.

Niagara Falls, N.Y. — A man drove his pickup truck down the side of the gorge in Niagara Falls on Wednesday, police said. The driver got out of the badly smashed truck and walked out of the gorge, ...