The Latest Breaking News from French Alps

In a hidden valley in the French Alps, conservationists are quietly raising Europe’s largest bird of prey – the bearded vulture – once wiped out from these mountains. After a century away, it is once again soaring again over the Alps, but its comeback still depends on human care.

June's heatwave has caused French Alps snow and glaciers to melt faster, causing water shortages at mountain shelters just before the summer tourist hiking season gets into full swing.

The French Alps town of Annecy is holding a “citizens’ gathering’’ at the lakeside park where a man with a knife raced around stabbing people

French judges on Saturday handed preliminary charges of attempted murder to a man suspected of stabbing four young children and two adults in a park in the French Alps town of Annecy, an attack that reverberated across France and beyond.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday visited the hospital where preschool children who were wounded in a knife attack in the Alpine town of Annecy were being treated. Four children and two adults were injured in the attack by a Syrian refugee. The president said that their conditions were improving.

Four very young children and two adults were stabbed in a lakeside playground in the French Alps city

The driver and another adult were seriously injured while 18 children and one other adult were treated for minor injuries near the town of Corps, in France

Will ski resorts survive climate change? It's a question many in the Alps and in mountainous areas around the world are asking. Warmer temperatures, less snow in the winter and melting glaciers all mean that ski resorts are looking at new ways of attracting tourists. Recently some 200 professional skiers,…

Several people were injured when a taxi carrying a family of Brits collided with a minibus near Albertville in the French Alps, closing the busy road on the last day of half term