Dozens of swimmers took a dip in the Seine with Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo on Wednesday ... take place on the river. In 1988, her predecessor Jacques Chirac famously failed to swim in the river ...

PARIS — In what French officials hoped to be the conclusion of a years-long nail-biter, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo ... to the river. Her swim, which appeared designed to preempt Hidalgo’s ...

The mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, was against the participation ... with high temperatures and the possibility of swimming in the Seine River, where the open water and triathlon competitions ...

The opening ceremony, triathlon and marathon swimming for the Paris ... swims in the Seine to show its safe Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo took a dip in the river on Wednesday and swam about 50 meters ...

It would happen in Mayor Anne ... the River Seine into a car-free promenade. The scheme had been broadly opposed by right-wingers including Valérie Pécresse, president of the wider Paris region.

French President Emmanuel Macron says the cauldron balloon, one of the Paris Olympics’ most admired attractions, would float ...

A strange day in Paris has dawned. Anne Hidalgo, the Socialist mayor of the French capital, faced virulent criticism over the weekend for threatening to ban an intersectional, mostly segregated ...

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has a new on-street target in her sights: SUVs. Bidding for a place in history as the woman who made Paris green, she has promised another city referendum. The vote next ...

Paris will roll out free public transit (and bike share) for kids Mayor Anne Hidalgo has hinted that this is just the beginning--she also wants to make transit free for low-income families.