Some severe weather is expected in DC, Maryland, and Virginia as storms approach the region, bringing potential hail and ...

Constructed to use the strong tides of the Potomac River to clear silt from the Washington Channel and to maintain steady water levels in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pools, it now also serves ...

Traffic’s bad enough on a good day in D.C., so all of the enormous concrete caps, and the stone cladding, being brought up the Potomac River by barge and transported to the Tidal Basin.

Peak bloom occurs when 70% of the blossoms of the Yoshino cherry trees, the most common type along the Tidal Basin, are open.

The most famous place to see the cherry blossoms in the nation’s capital is around the Tidal Basin in West Potomac Park. Many cherry trees are also along a section of the Potomac River and ...