PARIS — After years of promises and more than $1 billion of investment, Paris’s once-filthy river is finally swimmable. And the mayor proved it just days before the July 26 Olympic deadline.

PARIS — After months of speculation about whether the Seine River would be clean enough for Olympic athletes to compete in it, officials deemed the water safe for swimming after a last-minute test.

In Europe's most densely populated city of Paris, where there have been two long lockdowns because of the cornavirus, a beloved river is helping many people get through it all. The river Seine runs ...

Long a symbol of pollution, the Seine is now swimmable thanks to a monumental cleanup. But it’s just one part of the city's audacious vision to balance millions of visitors with protecting its soul.

Paris — The first Olympic swimming event in the Seine river has been postponed as tests of the river water continue. The swimming leg of the men's triathlon was originally scheduled to happen Tuesday ...

Senior Correspondent American triathlete Seth Rider wants everyone to know: his comments that went viral this week were a joke. The water quality of the Seine, where the swimming leg of both the women ...

Paris city hall announced on Friday that the Seine has been clean enough for swimming for most of the past 12 days, just weeks before the start of the 2024 Games. Despite recent unseasonable rain that ...

Levels of contamination in Paris’ River Seine remain unsafe for Olympians to compete with just over a month remaining before the games, according to a monitoring report from the city of Paris.