The winter pollution spike in Paris has been judged the worst in a decade as authorities continue to impose traffic restrictions on vehicles and make public transport free in a bid to tackle the dirty air above the city.
French president François Hollande commended Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on Monday after the Italian leader resigned following a crushing defeat in his attempts to reform Italy's constitution.
Drought in the truffle heartland of France means the famous "Black Diamond" truffles are in short supply this year and are being sold at exorbitant prices.
The death of a French policeman who was run over and killed by a convicted criminal was denounced on Sunday by the
interior minister as a "heinous act" which must be severely punished.
After Thatcherite François Fillon won the rightwing presidential primary The Local looks back at a question we asked experts and unionists back n 2013 after the death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
The conservative François Fillon will be France's right wing presidential candidate in next year's election after beating rival Alain Juppé handsomely in Sunday's primary run-off vote.
Fairground stallholders blocked the Place de la Concorde in central Paris on Thursday to protest against an order to pull down the city's famous Big Wheel. But does City Hall want the landmark taken down?
Former minister and banker Emmanuel Macron formally announced he was in the running to be the next president of France, saying he wanted to pull the country into the 21st century.
After Donald Trump's earth-shaking win and Britain stunning the EU by voting out, France must now accept the possibility far-right Marine Le Pen could actually pull off a hat-trick of shocks in next year's French presidential election.
The French government has confirmed that it will order 15 high-speed TGV trains in a bid to prevent the historic Alstom train-building plant from closing.
Days after a so-called "burqini pool party" was cancelled by a French mayor, the latest crackdown on the controversial beachwear for Muslim women has seen the mayor of a Riviera resort ban the clothing from his beach.
France has mobilised 1,500 firefighters to tackle wildfires in countryside north of Marseille that have gutted buildings and forced more than 1,000 people to flee their homes.
France will soon have its own National Guard the president announced on Thursday as he aims to boost security to protect the French population facing repeated terror attacks.
Various media sites in France including Le Monde and BFM TV have decided to stop publishing images of terrorist killers to avoid giving them the notoriety and glorification they crave, which may also encourage others to commit copycat acts.
With strikes spilling over in to Euro 2016 and threatening to cause chaos around the opening match, the French government has vowed to do whatever it takes to ensure the tournament runs smoothly and that could mean forcing strikers back to work on the trains.
UPDATED: Air France pilots are set to hold a four-day strike from June 11th, right at the start of Euro 2016 after rejecting a deal offered by the airline.
