19+ hour, 32+ min ago   (710+ words) Airbnb may still have to pay an €8.6million fine for not collecting tourist tax from holiday rentals on the Ile d’Oléron (Charente-Maritime). The platform was fined in April 2025 by the Poitiers Court of Appeal after neglecting to collect the taxe de…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (784+ words) Update September 10, 2026: Investigators have confirmed that the gun is not the same one believed to have been used during the 2012 killings. A Luger pistol found by a group of British tourists in Lake Annecy last month may have been used…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (1000+ words) France’s ongoing drought crisis continues to disrupt daily life, as 64,000 people remain without access to tap water. This is the number of people “who still need to be supplied by tanker trucks or bottled water for drinking, cooking, and washing,…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (706+ words) Residents in around 400 French towns and cities are planning to take to the streets for a national day of demonstrations calling for action on climate change. The mobilisation, set to take place on September 26, is organised by the Mouvement du…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1136+ words) Petrol prices in France are now at all-time highs as the tensions in the Middle East continue to impact prices. Average prices of €2.12 per litre for SP95-E10 were recorded on Wednesday (September 9), the highest ever, according to Radio France estimations based…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (715+ words) Strong winds forecast in north and storms in south as cooler weather arrives Persistent rain and winds reaching nearly 100km/h will impact northern France today, as heightened heatwave alerts officially end in the south. The disturbance, already moving in from…...

6+ day, 19+ hour ago   (519+ words) City plans to treat dangerously hot homes as unfit for habitation, giving tenants new protections against heatwave overheating Lyon has become the first city in France to call for excessive indoor heat to be considered when assessing whether a home…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago   (915+ words) Change is nonetheless hailed as 'a significant step' France's new ‘right to aid in dying’ law is a significant step that has been a long time coming, say campaigners, although they believe it remains too restrictive. Philippe Lohéac, general delegate…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (757+ words) Petrol and diesel prices remain above €2 per litre Petrol car owners in France are now spending almost three times as much on fuel each month as electric car owners spend on energy, according to an analysis by Roole Data. The…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago   (687+ words) France has changed the world map used by its foreign ministry after the UN backed efforts to make maps more accurately reflect the size of continents. France has abandoned the Mercator projection for its official diplomatic maps, adopting the Eckert…...