As Paris baked under soaring temperatures on Monday, tourists and residents flocked to shaded spots and canal banks to escape the punishing heat. With air conditioning still uncommon in much of ...

Three years ago, everybody thought that Alex and his friends were a bit crazy to go swimming in Paris. ''But now that the mayor said that some swimming races will take place in the River Seine ...

Over four nights in January, revellers will descend into the bowels of Paris’s underground canals, for what promises to be an epic and most unusual masquerade ball dubbed “Venice under Paris.” ...

Paris has been taking proactive steps to clean up its waterways for years. Celia Blauel from the City Council said: “The results show 15 to 20 traces of bacteria per millilitre, while the top ...

Part of the Paris canal has been transformed into an outdoor pool for the summer. The Local's Ben McPartland took the plunge on the opening day.