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

The festival’s prime time is known as “peak bloom,” when the Yoshino cherry trees around the Tidal Basin, in West Potomac Park and ... Across the Anacostia River, the Move and Bloom event ...

On Mar. 11, 2025, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released a preliminary report detailing the events leading ...

Federal funding freezes and staffing cuts are setting off alarms about the future of the Colorado River, a critical artery that supplies water to some 40 million people in 30 tribes and seven ...

plan to spend some time along the Tidal Basin, an approximately 107-acre pond encircled by a 2.1-mile loop trail. Constructed to use the strong tides of the Potomac River to clear silt from the ...

Moving into a second day, crews returned to the Potomac River to retrieve pieces of the American Airlines plane that was involved in a deadly collision with a U.S. Army helicopter. The crash ...

Mahmoud Khalil's detention appears to be one of the first efforts by Donald Trump to fulfill his promise to seek the deportation of some foreign students involved in the pro-Palestinian protest ...

The bodies of 55 of the 67 victims killed when a plane and helicopter crashed near Reagan National Airport have been recovered from the Potomac River ... divers have to map out the locations ...