The best secrets are the ones hiding in plain sight, and Virginia has a doozy. The George Washington Memorial Parkway in McLean, Virginia, delivers a combination of history, nature, and scenery that ...

Invasive snakeheads are proliferating in waterways from New York to Florida. Wildlife officials around the Chesapeake Bay are ...

The Potomac Interceptor’s January 19 rupture near the I-495/Clara Barton Parkway interchange which discharged at least 243 million gallons of raw sewage into the Potomac River was a “temporary insult, ...

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 ...

Members of a congressional subcommittee this week questioned utility leaders and state officials about their knowledge of preexisting problems with the sewage line that collapsed on Jan. 19 near the ...

For all the latest developments in Congress, follow WTOP Capitol Hill correspondent Mitchell Miller at Today on the Hill. Members of Congress learned a great deal this week about issues that ...

MANCHESTER, Tenn. (WKRN) — Teaching the next generation about one of the most biologically-diverse rivers. Hundreds of Coffee County middle school students gathered along the Duck River Tuesday ...

DC Water says testing is now underway to restore wastewater flow to the Potomac Interceptor, a major sewer line damaged in a January collapse that sent millions of gallons of sewage toward the Potomac ...

Key officials involved in the cleanup of a massive sewage spill in the Potomac River testified Wednesday at a congressional hearing that they quickly responded after a pipe burst and that public ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump plans to build an exhibit of statues featuring prominent Americans in a tightly regulated park along the Potomac River, potentially opening a new legal fight ...

Nearly two months after more than 20,000 gallons of jet fuel were discharged from Joint Base Andrews into a vulnerable nearby creek, Maryland’s congressional delegation and state environmental ...