Anacostia River

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser celebrated Earth Day by announcing a new program where people can use canoes and kayaks on the Anacostia River for free.

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser celebrated Earth Day on the Anacostia River announcing a new program where people can use canoes and kayaks for free. News4’s Mark Segraves explains how the program is designed to enlist citizen scientists to track the amount of trash in the river.

Six years after Relisha Rudd’s disappearance, her family and friends haven’t given up hope — and a new age progression photo shows what the D.C. girl may look like at 14 years old.

Her 14th birthday arrived Tuesday, but Relisha Rudd remains missing.

The Prince George’s County Department of the Environment awarded a woman for her work to clean up the Anacostia River at the Taking Nature Black Conference Thursday. Tiaa Rutherford, the county litter reduction program manager, helped create an app to track how much litter is picked up around the county. So far, the PGC Litter Track app indicates 175,000 pounds…

Tiaa Rutherford received an award for her work to clean up the Anacostia River and in turn the Chesapeake Bay.

Dramatic arches that will soon support the new Frederick Douglass Bridge, carrying South Capitol Street over the Anacostia River, are coming into view. The $440 Million project, the largest in DDOT’s history, is scheduled to be completed by the end of this year. As News4’s Adam Tuss reports, the three new lanes the bridge will offer can’t come soon enough...

Acting on new information, D.C. police recently resumed the search for missing child Relisha Rudd, focusing on underground tunnels at the now-closed homeless shelter where she lived.

Relisha Rudd was just 8 years old when she disappeared from the D.C. homeless shelter where she lived with her mother and siblings. She was last seen March 1, 2014 at a Northeast D.C. motel with 51-year-old Kahlil Tatum, a janitor at the D.C. General homeless shelter.

D.C. police spent days searching a network of tunnels for evidence of Relisha Rudd, the 8-year-old girl who went missing in 2014. News4’s Mark Segraves reports.

Five years after Relisha Rudd was last seen, D.C. police said they’ve never given up their attempt to find her.

July 11 is Relisha Rudd Remembrance Day, when District residents remember the 8-year-old girl who went missing from Northeast D.C. more than five years ago.

Thousands of little mollusks have a big job to do in D.C. They’re working to filter out pollutants in the Anacostia River. News4’s Derrick Ward reports.

One of the victims died at the scene, police said.

A 17-year-old is dead and two other teens injured after a shooting on Morris Road SE in D.C. News4’s Pat Collins reports family, friends and a football coach are mourning the loss of the teen killed.

Protected bike lanes designed to keep everyone safer are coming to east of the Anacostia River in Southeast D.C. Derrick Ward reports some in Ward 8 are skeptical if the city’s plans will work.

From free to the fancy, here are some of the best Fourth of July watch parties in D.C.

Many see the Anacostia River as a dividing line between well-served and underserved sections of Washington, D.C. Rahsaan Bernard, President of Building Bridges Across The River, joins Pat Lawson Muse to discuss community revitalization efforts that extend to D.C.’s Wards 7 and 8. They are also joined the THEARC Theatre’s Joyce Milford and Kimberly Douglas.

The corruption investigations of D.C. Council member Jack Evans give the council an opportunity to reconsider the sole-source sports betting contract.

Statistics for type 2 diabetes in Washington, D.C., neighborhoods East of the Anacostia River (Wards 7 and 8) are quite alarming. D.C. Health suggests that 13.4 percent of residents living in Wards 7; and 19.7 percent of residents in Ward 8 have diabetes (highest in the city). Comparatively, only 3.6 percent of residents living in Ward 2 have diabetes; and...