Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After becoming an empty nester, I left my life behind in the US to buy a farmhouse in rural France. I've run into many issues, ...

France was rural for longer than some other nations, and that impacted its football teams Valery Hache/AFP via Getty Images Over recent years, the phrase ‘farmer’s league’ has become a go-to social ...

Four years ago, I moved to Languedoc, South West France, almost on a whim, because I fell in love with a crumbling old house on a pretty port in the village where my husband and I used to go on ...

Surrounded by a deep blue sky and the green-fleeced slopes of rolling Basque-country hills, Bernadette Pochelu winds her way between an outdoor pen of pigs, a noisy barn full of lambs, and her ...

A French court is set to rule this week on whether an early-rising cockerel should be considered a neighbourly nuisance in a case that has led to crows of protest in the countryside. A woman from the ...

Dreaming of a move to rural France? €1 house programs capture global attention and revitalise rural communities, but demand bigger investment. Here’s what early data suggests a renovation might cost.

Small business and residential users as far afield as the Pyrenees mountains in southern France could soon enjoy broadband connections thanks to a partnership between France Telecom (FT) and Alvarion.