At least 75 Amsterdam hospitality venues have notified the municipality that they want to extend opening hours during the World Cup, while Utrecht has received requests for 14 terraces planning to

Progressief Nederland (PRO) was officially founded Saturday at a congress in the Brabant

A portion of the 12 staff at Radboudumc in Nijmegen who were placed in quarantine

It has become known on Saturday that three people have been arrested and two vehicles seized in connection with

Riots broke out late Friday night in Wijk bij Duurstede, Utrecht province, during a protest against a planned emergency asylum shelter, marking the second violent escalation in the town this month

NS and Deutsche Bahn are assessing plans for a new cross-border train service linking the Netherlands and Germany.

No additional victims were found after emergency crews completed their search of the rubble left by a

The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) is introducing a localized weather warning system that will send alerts shortly before severe weather reaches specific areas and later replace

The Dutch expedition vessel m/v Hondius is set to resume voyages this weekend after weeks out of service caused by a fatal virus outbreak onboard,

Former Prime Minister Mark Rutte told the parliamentary inquiry committee on COVID-19 that the Netherlands narrowly avoided a collapse of hospital care during the pandemic.

Two witnesses saw young people flee the scene and an Audi speed away shortly after an explosion destroyed a gym in Amsterdam Nieuw-West overnight, the Telegraaf

The apartment block next to the building in Amsterdam Nieuw-West, where an explosi

A parliamentary majority is ready to support a bill by the D66 and CDA to allow judges to sentence people to house arrest with an ankle monitor for minor offenses.

Many women with breast cancer may be undergoing unnecessary chemotherapy because their doctors aren’t using the genetic tests that determine whether chemo is necessary for their treatment

Terneuzen is “extremely shocked” by the traffic accident during a school camp

A military reservist was arrested by the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee on Tuesday as part of an investigation into suspected firearms trafficking.

A new Dutch class action has been filed against Valve Corporation, the company behind Steam.

The municipality of Amsterdam is preparing for potential unrest surrounding the FIFA World Cup, which kicks off this evening.

Multiple people, including children, were injured on Thursday after a car collided with bicyclists on the N290 near Vogelwaarde in Zeeland.

A major fire destroyed a swingers club in Lelystad early Thursday after flames that started in a separate structure on the property spread to the main structure, forcing firefighters to let the bui

Female entrepreneurs in the Netherlands continue to receive substantially less financing than men, according to a new national study by Code-V, the Dutch Code for Promoting Female Entrepreneurship.

The Dutch government will not pursue a national ban on single-use plastics such as cigarette filters and disposable vapes, and it will also not introduce a deposit system for squeezable packaging u

Concert tours by British pop star Harry Styles have reportedly significantly lifted Dutch

Border-area congestion at German gas stations in recent weeks and the imminent end of Germany’s fuel tax discount are converging to eliminate a price advantage that has drawn large numbers of Dutch

The aquarium at Artis Zoo

Authorities in Zuid-Holland Zuid have issued a three-day boil water advisory for residents of Dordrecht, Zwijndrecht and Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht after an E.

11% of Dutch workers have sleepless nights over AI, worry about losing their jobs

In 2025, almost 50 percent of people in the Netherlands said they had carried out volunteer work in the preceding year.

The 19-year-old driver from Hulst who was arrested following a fatal road accident in Vogelwaarde, Zeeland, will remain in detention for the time being, according to the Public Prosecution Service

Police in Amsterdam confirmed that several people were arrested on Friday afternoon in connection with a massive explosion that leveled a fitness center and destroyed an electricity transformer in

Hundreds of thousands of children, roughly equivalent to a fourth of all primary school children in the Netherlands, rarely play outdoors, if at all.

An argument may have preceded a massive explosion at an apartment buildi

The plans for building new neighborhoods in four municipalities with a total of 30,000 homes have been finalized and approved by the Ministry of Housing.

The explosion at an apartment building on Osdorper Ban in Amsterdam Nieuw-West overnight was heard in a large part of the city.

Elon Musk is expected to surpass 1 trillion dollars in net worth on Friday when SpaceX, his private aerospace company, goes public, according to a new analysis by Oxfam Novib.

The Netherlands is testing a system of GPS-enabled “virtual fences” for grazing cattle that removes the need for physical barriers while keeping cows within designated pasture areas, RTL

Plans to extensively vet foreign scientists and students with access to sensitive tech data are unrealistic, according to Minister of Education Rianne Letschert.

Two children and an adult who were biking with a school group near Vogelwaarde were left dead after a car

As the first major city, Amsterdam now has a new team of alderpersons.

The international legal order is crumbling into the law of the strongest prevails, and the Netherlands is not ready for it.

The number of people receiving welfare benefits in the Netherlands rose again in the first quarter of 2026, extending a multi-year upward trend, according to preliminary figures from the

Trust in VVD leader Dilan Yeşilgöz has dropped significantly among VVD voters over the past months, with half now saying she should make way for new leadership, according to RTL Nieuwspanel

Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten criticized strict U.S.

Health risks at open-water swimming sites in the Netherlands have doubled since the start of the season, with warnings, advisories, and closures now affecting dozens of locations, according to an A

The Dutch Army is testing a new prisoner-of-war camp design this week in Marnehuizen, preparing for the possibility of holding up to 2,000 captured Russian soldiers in the event of a large-scale co

Train service around Woerden resumed overnight from Friday to Saturday after a f

Amsterdam will not test a proposal to use ferrets for rat control, a measure raised in response to a rat infestation at a restaurant on Javastraat in Amsterdam Oost that prompted political question

The Netherlands is facing a significantly worse outbreak of the oak processionary caterpillar this year than in

Dutch national railway NS was hit by the second major disruption to passenger train serv

The Dutch government is introducing much stricter rules on online gambling, including a near-total ban on gambling ads and bonuses.

The Dutch economy is set to grow more slowly than previously anticipated, with De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) lowering its forecast from 1.2 percent to 0.8 percent.

Mayor Femke Halsema of Amsterdam visited an apartment building on Osdorper Ban on Friday morning, where an

A man was shot and injured on the terrace of a chip shop in Tilburg on Thursday afternoon.

At least 7 people were injured in an explosion and fire at an apartment building in Amsterdam Nieuw-West overnight.

Tablets are ready in Ter Apel for the new registration process that asylum seekers will have to go through from Friday at the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND).

The Dutch Gambling Authority (Ksa) expects a rise in sports betting during the upcoming World Cup, with gambling operators likely increasing advertising in response.

Ronald van Tiggelen, a member of the provincial council for the PVV, has been sentenced to 200 hours of community service for

The Public Prosecution Service (OM) has decided not to prosecute the officer who fatally sh

Rents for social housing are increasing by an average of 3.6 percent this year, figures from housing association umbrella body Aedes show.

People buying a home are moving further away on average than homebuyers ten years ago, the Land Registry reported in new research.