What should be a moment of well-being sometimes turns into a nightmare. The location? A municipal swimming pool, a space you might frequent regularly to swim, relax, and move without pressure. The ...

This summer, it’s hot. We don’t need to tell you. America’s been suffering a catastrophic heat wave for more than a month—no part of the country has been immune. That means people are scrambling to ...

Females in Berlin, Germany will soon be able to bathe topless in the city’s public swimming pools after the local government changed rules in response to a woman’s discrimination complaint. The ...

Paris has launched an urgent hunt for spy cameras and peepholes in the city’s public swimming pool changing rooms following a spate of complaints from women about men trying to film them. The action ...

In 2019, several years before Olympic athletes dove into the Seine, a group of friends sought a place to swim in Metz, three hours east of Paris. Summers were getting hotter, and most municipal pools ...

During the dog days of summer, many families and teens hanging out with their friends go to pools for fun while cooling off from the Southeastern North Carolina heat. For a lot of Pender County ...

An Isle of Wight swimming pool’s newly refurbished changing rooms have been officially opened. The works at the Waterside Swimming Pool in Ryde marked the completion of a series of improvements at the ...

A New York state grant is helping the Steuben County town of Cohocton make waves with a brand new public swimming pool.

This story about swimming in Paris is part of How Paris Moves, a series of dispatches about communities and social change in France through the lens of the 2024 Summer Olympics. It’s another Friday ...

St. Francis of Assisi Church in Heerlen, the Netherlands, has been vacant since 2023. The architects imagine it with a new social function. (Courtesy MVRDV) St. Francis of Assisi Church has been ...