A court in The Hague ruled on Wednesday that the authorities did not do enough to safeguard the family of...

Firefighters in the Gelderland town of Beekbergen are still trying to contain a blaze on Wednesday that destroyed a youth...

Thousands turned out in Amsterdam on Tuesday evening to lay flowers and commemorate the victims of an attack on Pride...

Low water levels are putting river cruises on the Rhine in jeopardy, with excursions being cancelled or cut short because...

A bitter war has broken out in two Brabant villages over plans to accommodate 50 refugees in the area, with...

German police are urgently trying to trace the travel companion of a Dutch tourist who was found strangled in a...

Are you getting ready for your summer holidays and trying to decide which book to take to read on the...

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, has been dismissed after a member states voted to remove...

An earthquake measuring 1.6 on the Richter scale has been recorded in Sappermeer, a village in the former Groningen gas...

Johanna van Veen’s gothic horror Blood on Her Tongue offers up a classic vampire tale with some modern contemplations. The...

Discrimination hotlines in both the Netherlands and Belgium have concluded that Dutch singer Sophie Straat did not discriminate when she...

Ajax kicked off their European football campaign with a 4-1 win over Serbian club Vojvodina in the second qualification round...

Anyone in large parts of the Rotterdam neighbourhood of De Esch at night without a good reason to be there...

Originally from Venezuela, Eduardo Petit has lived in the Netherlands for over two decades. He currently works as a legal...

The highly contagious skin infection impetigo is on the rise on among Dutch children, with 2026 seeing more cases than...

The Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam reopened to all traffic on Wednesday evening after the two badly damaged trams which collided...

Some 5,800 prohibited objects including elephant ivory have been anonymously handed in to the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) over the...

Fifteen people were injured, one of them seriously, when two trams collided on the Erasmus Bridge in Rotterdam on Wednesday...

As the conflict between the US and Iran escalates, the foreign affairs ministry has tightened its advice for people wanting...

Police in Nijmegen have arrested a man in connection with a fatal shooting on Tuesday evening, just outside the area...

Police are trying to trace the occupants of a car that crashed at high speed in Amsterdam while carrying high...

The national heat plan has been activated for the second time this summer as temperatures are set to reach between...

Health technology firm Philips has received an €186 million windfall after the United States Supreme Court ordered Donald Trump’s administration...

The police have identified the remains that washed on up a Texel beach in 2023 as two men from Afghanistan,...

Four Dutch tourists who were reported missing when a speedboat failed to return from a trip on Lake Malawi have...

More than 400,000 buildings in the Netherlands have problems with their foundations or are likely to develop them in the...

The agency responsible for transporting failed asylum seekers has been strongly reprimanded for letting civilian wardens carry guns while escorting...

More university students are opting for teacher training courses, raising hopes of an end to the shortage of staff in...

Mathieu van der Poel won a dramatic closing stage of the Tour de France as his late breakaway in Paris...

The 108th edition of the Nijmegense Vierdaagse (four-day march) ended on Friday, with tens of thousands of walkers being welcomed...

Police have arrested a young man from Noord Holland who they suspect of being part of the sadistic online Com...

Unilever’s food division, which is being sold to US sauce and spice producer McCormick, will have a secondary listing on...

Children born outside Europe are far more likely to drown in the Netherlands than children of Dutch origin, figures published...

Due to rising costs and regulatory pressure, this year’s Amsterdam Kwaku Summer Festival will be the last in its current...

The Netherlands is in for a run of summery weather, with temperatures climbing towards the weekend before showers arrive on...

Sixteen Dutch councils still have not formed a government coalition 126 days after the local elections on March 18 –...

The food delivery platform Thuisbezorgd.nl hides compulsory charges and advertises fake discounts, the Dutch consumer association Consumentenbond said on Tuesday,...

A Groningen court has sentenced a 23-year-old man to 15 months in prison for sending death threats to butchers in...

Attacks using explosives fell by more than 17% in the first half of this year, the first substantial drop since...

Police have raided the hosting company of the pornography website Motherless at locations in Steenbergen, Rotterdam and Amsterdam, seizing servers...

Police have arrested three teenagers in overnight raids in Eindhoven, Rotterdam and Alkmaar as part of a a counter-terrorism investigation....

A Dutch tourist has died and another is recovering in hospital after a boat overturned during a safari in Brazil....

A man has been arrested in Almelo in connection with the death of a Dutch tourist who was found strangled...

The government is not taking measures to address its legal obligations to protect the former Dutch colony of Bonaire from...

Prince Bernhard has sold his his entire business portfolio, including his stake in the Zandvoort racing circuit, and will now...

Two teenage boys have handed themselves in to police after a security guard was assaulted during last week’s four-day Vierdaagse...

New research by Rabobank shows that the country’s aging population will put pressure on dental care providers. A report published...

The week starts off cloudy with a few rain showers around the country, but the warmer weather will be back...

The body of a Dutch man who dove into Lake Como to save his son was recovered on Sunday, Italian...

Dozens of women may have been forced into working as prostitutes in Amsterdam’s red light district by a Romanian gang,...

The police and justice ministry officials are working on a system which would see traffic offenders being given points for...

Police have seized 1.2 million counterfeit cigarettes in a van in the north of the country near the German border....

Amsterdam police chief Peter Holla opened the COC’s Shakespeare Club at the H’ART Museum on Wednesday, telling dozens of drag...

A growing group of young women with severe mental illness are getting stuck in the Dutch mental health system, and...

Rapper and convicted rapist Ali B has pulled out of a business event where he was supposed to be speaking...

Around 503,000 Dutch households were living in energy poverty last year, or 6% of the total – unchanged from 2024,...

Three men have been arrested over the theft of a shipment of smartphones with an estimated street value of around...

House prices are climbing fastest in Groningen and slowest in the Randstad, figures from the national statistics office CBS and...

The Netherlands is trying to build a coalition of West African countries to pressure Sierra Leone into handing over fugitive...

The school track advice Dutch children receive at the end of primary school is influenced by how they rank compared...