Washington, D.C., is in no hurry to make swimming in the Potomac River legal despite significant improvements made in the river’s water quality and bacterial levels. Under Washington law, swimming in ...

It won't be completed until about 2030, but a pedestrian/bicyclist bridge over the Potomac River could bring more people to ...

50 years after President Johnson instigated efforts to clean up the polluted river, the Potomac remains tainted by the District’s sewage. After years of unchecked sewage flowing into the Potomac River ...

Onlookers after a car drove into the Potomac along the Mt. Vernon Trail (courtesy @darsh5000/X) A woman was rescued Tuesday evening after driving into the Potomac River along the GW Parkway. The ...

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. (DC News Now) — First responders rescued two people from the Potomac River on Saturday after they were found in the water clinging to a tree, officials said. In a post on X ...

Five million people depend on the Potomac River for their drinking water, so you have to wonder, is a grade of B good enough? Potomac Conservancy scores the Potomac River's health a grade of B, an ...

Lawmakers and environmental groups are once again trying to reverse the ban that Washington, D.C., first imposed in 1971, arguing that stretches of the Potomac River have healed and should be open to ...

A crowd gathered Tuesday in the frigid air along White’s Ferry on the banks of the Potomac River to push for the reopening of ...

WASHINGTON — Dramatic before-and-after photos showing how freshwater mussels cleaned a tank of badly polluted Potomac River water in a matter or hours are encouraging signs that water quality near ...

On April 9, Connor Lynch, an angler fishing on the Potomac River near Fletcher’s Cove, hooked and released a shortnose sturgeon, a fish not seen in the river since 2007. The Potomac Riverkeeper called ...

On March 18, 1936, The Morning Herald announced startling news to its readers – the Potomac River was rising over a foot an hour in Williamsport. By the day’s end, the buildings at Cushwa Basin were ...

Fans of the singer Lorde expressed concern after she said at a concert Monday that she swam in the Potomac River while visiting Washington, D.C. Before singing her song “Liability" at The Anthem, ...