Big news this summer for river swimmers: You can now splash around the capital’s famous body of water! Sadly, it’s the capital of France. The Seine is open for swimming; the Potomac and Anacostia ...

Salvage crews worked on the Potomac River on Thursday morning and could be seen pulling out pieces of the Army Black Hawk helicopter that crashed with a plane last week, killing everyone on board both ...

The Potomac Conservancy gave the Potomac River a B grade in its recent report card, the fifth B in ten years. And while a B is better than the D the river got in 2011 or the C in 2013, the river is ...

WASHINGTON — Imagine it’s a hot summer day in Washington, D.C., in other words just Tuesday. You grab your towel, slap on some sunscreen and head down to a clean stretch of the Potomac River. Kids are ...

A Jan. 29, 2025, plane and helicopter crash in the Potomac River has raised environmental concerns about jet fuel contamination. Government agencies haven't tested the water, citing jet fuel's ...