It’s almost the Fourth of July, which means it’s time to start making a plan for fireworks. The annual fireworks show on the National Mall will start at 9:09 PM and last for nearly 20 minutes, with ...

A Guide to the Potomac River It flows almost 400 miles, from the mountains of West Virginia to the Chesapeake Bay, and offers beauty, recreation, and, these days, comfort.

A man was rescued from the Potomac River Saturday after he was swept downstream while swimming from the Virginia shore.

Giles Daniel Warrick, accused of being the “Potomac River Rapist,” was found dead Saturday at the D.C. jail, authorities said. His trial was scheduled for Nov. 30. (Jonathan Newton/The ...

Relief crews recovered the body several days later. Around 5 p.m. on May 31, on the Potomac River in the area of Billy Goat Trail A and Sandy Landing, south, downstream of Great Falls.

Investigators say there are likely no survivors in the deadly aircraft collision that occurred Wednesday evening above the icy waters of the Potomac river.

According to the Monday monitoring report, the river flow fell 2,000 cubic feet per second (cfs) below the Cooperative Water Supply Operations on the Potomac’s (CO-OP) threshold.

An Arlington request for $8 million to support construction of a key segment of the Cross Potomac Trail has gotten the ax. Staff from the Northern Virginia Transportation Commission (NVTC) and ...

he Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority has landed a contractor to fill in a portion of the Potomac River and relocate a Reagan National Airport runway in order to bring it up to federal ...