Paris reportedly spent billions of dollars to fix the Seine and to improve the quality of water, making it fit for public use ...

Explore the Seine River, the lifeblood of Paris, in this visual tour along its most iconic bridges and surrounding monuments.

The closures came just a day after the river's triumphant reopening, which capped a years-long effort to clean up the Seine, ...

The return to swimming follows a 1.4 billion euro ($1.5 billion) cleanup project tied to last year’s Olympics.

Video. For the first time in over a century, Parisians and tourists are officially allowed to swim in the River Seine — and ...

For the first time in 100 years, Parisians and tourists enjoyed swimming in the Seine River. The river had been closed to ...

Paris has opened portions of the Rive Seine for swimming for the first time in more than a century, fulfilling a promise of ...

After a century-long ban due to pollution, swimming in Paris's River Seine is now permitted in designated zones, thanks to ...

An evacuation order has been issued for several homes at risk from the Whelan Creek wildfire in the Ellison area of ...

A unusual attack by bees in the French town of Aurillac has left 24 people injured, including three in critical condition, ...

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