The Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin says there is a below normal probability of needing to release back up ...

It will continue to get harder to ensure there’s enough drinking water from the Potomac River, according to a group that ...

A Spirit of Washington lunch cruise boat took on water in the Potomac River shortly after leaving the D.C.'s Wharf on a test ...

Tamanend bottlenose dolphins are seasonal visitors to the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River. They are a coastal population of ...

The Potomac River is in the middle of a comeback and is much cleaner than it used to be. There’s been great progress to clean up the “Nation’s River,” but pollution remains a problem.

The gust shredded an anchored umbrella, hurled Adirondack chairs into the Potomac and flipped a canoe on an otherwise tranquil summer day.

Think of this the next time you kayak, drive over, run by or, simply, stare at the Potomac River: Its ruin would cost the D.C. region nearly $15 billion in the first month, according to a report ...

Tests raised questions about whether instruments in an Army Black Hawk helicopter may have led pilots to believe they were at ...

On May 16, the Potomac Conservancy gave the river a grade of B, up from a B- in 2020, a C in 2013 and a D in 2011. We have seen progress, Conservancy officials say, but more must be done.

If the Potomac River has gotten more attention than the Anacostia in the past 50 years, it’s partly because the Potomac supplies 90 percent of the region’s drinking water. That amounts to an ...

When advocates hoping to lift a swimming ban in the Potomac River organized a “swim-in” to show the waterway was less of a cesspool and more of a Labor Day oasis, police immediately shut it down.