Potomac River

Fans of the singer Lorde expressed concern after she said at a concert Monday that she swam in the Potomac River while visiting Washington, D.C.

Seventeen-year-old rising baseball star Ceph Christie, whose life was cut short when he drowned in the Potomac River, was honored at the Washington Nationals game Saturday.

The family 17-year-old Ceph Christie, who drowned in the Potomac River, says he was a baseball standout with a bright future ahead of him. News4’s Darcy Spencer reports on how the family plans to preserve his memory.

Plans to rebuild the Yellow Line Bridge over the Potomac River are underway. News4’s Adam Tuss reports on the construction process to rebuild the bridge.

First responders were searching the Potomac River near Thompson’s Boat House in Northwest D.C. after a person disappeared in the water. News4’s Dominique Moody reports.

A 10-year-old boy and father who disappeared in the Potomac River in Charles County, Maryland, on Monday were found dead, authorities say. 

A little boy and a father are missing after they went under water while swimming in the Potomac River in Charles County, Maryland, Monday evening, first responders say. The Coast Guard said the man and boy were part of a family of five that was trying to swim from the shore to an anchored boat farther off the shore, when…

As temperatures heat up and more people take to the water for relief, first responders are reminding people about the dangers and the law when it comes to swimming in our local rivers. News4’s Mark Segraves reports nine people have drowned this year.

Authorities say the body of a 10-year-old girl who disappeared while swimming in southern Maryland over the weekend has been found. The St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office says Genesi Elizabeth Sosa-Bonilla was found dead Monday near where she was last seen. Officials say the sheriff’s office, Maryland Department of Natural Resources and members of volunteer fire and rescue companies responded...

Rescue personnel are searching for a 10-year-old who was swept away while swimming near Deep Point, Maryland Sunday, according to a release from the U.S. Coast Guard 5th District Mid-Atlantic.

In St. Mary’s County, Maryland a 10-year-old and another swimmer were swept away while swimming near Deep Point Sunday. One of the swimmers were rescued while a 10-year-old remains missing.

News4’s Erika Gonzalez and Mark Lowham of TTR Sotheby’s International Realty show us around “The Cliffs,” a 33,000-square-foot estate in McLean, Virginia. The mansion has eight bedrooms, luxurious amenities and views of the Potomac River.

A man died after he jumped into the Potomac River on Monday near Fort Washington, Maryland, authorities said.  Jimmy Orlando Espinoza-Oviedo, of Oxon Hill, was pronounced dead, officials said in an update Thursday. He was 37. Maryland Natural Resources Police responded to the river at about 6 p.m. on Memorial Day after a person was reported to have gone overboard,…

A National Park Service official says one of two construction barges that floated down the Potomac River amid flooding over the weekend has been pulled to shore. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park spokesperson Christiana Hanson says the river slowed enough Thursday for boats to safely retrieve the barge, held by currents below a dam. A crew secured a...

Crews will work to pull two construction barges ashore after they broke loose into the Potomac River unattended this weekend.  But water that’s still moving fast after heavy rainfall prevents any immediate work, officials said.  The two barges are held in place but still need to be brought ashore, Christiana Hanson of the National Park Service told News4 on...

News4’s Megan McGrath and Chopper4 report live on the situation in the Potomac River on Monday morning after two construction barges broke free over the weekend.

Crews will work to bring two barges ashore on Monday after they broke loose this weekend in the Potomac River. News4’s Megan McGrath gives a live look at the river, and Storm Team4’s Amelia Draper looks at lingering flooding concerns.

The barges floated downriver toward Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Crews hope they’ll be able to pull them ashore once water levels recede.

As water levels on some D.C. area rivers rose due to the recent heavy rain and storms, business owners in Georgetown Waterfront weren’t taking any chances.

Dozens of people gathered to watch the barge make its way down the river through choppy waters.