municipalities of Ile-de-France

Around two dozen officials from the Paris region have spent a night outdoors amid Siberian weather conditions to call attention to the plight of the homeless. ... Abdelsalem Hitache, a deputy mayor of Le Blanc-Mesnil, a working class town north of Paris, found a spot with colleagues on a busy street corner, ...

Nearby firefighters intervened to save the roof of a shopping mall from collapsing and 25 people were evacuated in another town because of heavy rain. ... "Twenty homeless people have died in Ile de France [the Paris region] since the beginning of January," said the initiator of the move, Etampes deputy ...

Braving an Arctic blast sweeping across Europe, about two dozen officials from the Paris region have spent a frigid night outdoors to call attention to the ... Abdelsalem Hitache, a deputy mayor of Le Blanc-Mesnil, a working class town north of Paris, found a spot with colleagues on a busy street corner, over ...

The town's beach, normally packed with sunseekers in the summer was left under a blanket of snow on Wednesday. ... also issued public appeals for 10,000 blankets in France, where about 50 local officials in the Paris region have vowed to spend Tuesday night outdoors to call attention to the plight of ...

The charity also issued public appeals for 10,000 blankets in France, where about 50 local officials in the Paris region have vowed to spend Tuesday night ... "The point is not to stage a show, but to denounce a system that isn't working," said Mama Sy, a deputy mayor in the Paris suburb of Etampes.

I have always loved the villages around Paris and in June I spotted a bike barge trip offered by Hat tours doing the Ile de France. I arrived in ... Fontainebleau is covered in trails all leading into the beautiful town and the chateau. After a ... Our big adventure began the next morning biking in down-town Paris.

In Paris, bus services had been suspended and school buses services in the suburbs were halted on Wednesday. Railway company SNCF said the rail traffic would be strongly disrupted in Ile-de-France, recommending people postpone their travels as half of the regional trains would not be operational.