French news

"The images of this helicopter are an electric shock to everyone"

A highly-contagious plant infection with no known cure - dubbed the “tomato virus” - has been confirmed in a farm in north-west France, making it the first known case ever in the country.

Area with large anglophone community turns to Connexion for help filling two GPs posts after years of struggle to fill the spots with French doctors

Allergy-causing pollen is already high in eastern France, with experts linking its early appearance to climate change - with allergies also being made worse by increased pollution.

France’s former health minister Agnès Buzyn has been replaced by MP and doctor Olivier Véran, after Ms Buzyn joined the race for Paris mayor in the wake of the Benjamin Griveaux scandal.

Around 45,000 homes were left without power in the northwest quarter of France this weekend, and there was disruption on TGV services and airlines due to continued destruction by Storm Dennis.

A ski station in the Pyrenees has had 50 tonnes of emergency snow delivered by helicopter, after high temperatures and a lack of snow caused the station to be otherwise un-skiable.

Two departments in northwest France - Finistère and Morbihan (Brittany) - are still on orange alert for high winds and flooding today (Sunday February 16) as Storm Dennis continues.

A Chinese tourist has died of new coronavirus Covid-19 in France, becoming the first person to die from the virus outside of Asia.

French postal service La Poste has come under intense criticism for its parcel delivery service this week, as a new report investigates a rising number of social media complaints.