Urban sections of the Potomac River are on the brink of becoming safe for swimming, but deforestation and polluted urban runoff are holding back efforts to clean up the waterway, according to a ...

In the 1960s, the Potomac River was declared a “national disgrace” by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Decades later, the condition of the river has earned a “B” from the Potomac River ...

The Potomac Conservancy has launched an $8 million public fundraising campaign to restore the Potomac River. Through its Clean Water—Healthy Communities campaign, the downtown Silver Spring ...

Officials say the conditions of the Potomac River are complicating recovery efforts of the bodies of the 67 presumed dead in a mid-air collision between American Airlines flight 5342 from Wichita ...