A motorcyclist died after driving the wrong way on the A8 near Saint-Laurent-du-Var in the early hours of Monday and colliding with an oncoming vehicle.
Results are out for more than 21,000 students in the Nice and Var academies, after correction teams worked through nearly 109,000 examination papers.
Seventy-one firefighters respond to a vegetation fire threatening homes in Saint-Laurent-du-Var on Wednesday afternoon as the region remains on high alert for wildfires.
Tax inspectors, Urssaf officials and police moved on the Côte d'Azur's busiest nightlife port in a coordinated pre-summer operation.