
Man found critically wounded in car near Rotterdam police station after stabbing
A man was found critically wounded with multiple stab wounds inside a car near a police station in Rotterdam-Charlois late Sunday, Rijnmond
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A man was found critically wounded with multiple stab wounds inside a car near a police station in Rotterdam-Charlois late Sunday, Rijnmond
Over 80 years after the Second World War, memorial sites in the Netherlands and abroad are increasingly facing anti-Semitism, violence, and threats.
At least three passengers on the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius in the Atlantic Ocean have died from a respiratory infection, likely caused by the hantavirus.
Rules requiring buffer zones between farmland and new housing projects are delaying the construction of tens of thousands of homes across the Netherlands, with municipalities warning that the restr
Schiphol Airport will close the Polderbaan runway for annual maintenance from Monday, May 4, through Tuesday, May 12, making it unavailable to air traffic on weekdays.
Sales of used electric cars in the Netherlands nearly doubled in April to 13,791 vehicles, according to the industry group BOVAG. The figure is almost twice that of April of the previous year.
The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) issued a Code Yellow thunderstorm warning Sunday afternoon for the n
The 51-year-old cafe owner arrested in the fatal shooting of a 45-year-old customer outside his bar on S
History and social studies teachers at secondary schools across the Netherlands are regularly confronted in class with disinformation about the Holocaust that students encounter on TikTok and throu
Eight homes were evacuated in the center of Hoogeveen early Sunday after a fire that started in a car parked under a carport quickly spread to two dwellings in an apartment complex, authorities sai
An Amsterdam appeals court on Friday declared prosecutors inadmissible in the money laundering case against Marcel Kaatee, ruling they had charged him twice for the same offenses involving properti
An officer has died following a "very serious incident" at the police station in Zandvoort, police
Dutch motorists are crossing into Germany in growing numbers to fill up after the German government slashed fuel excise taxes, dropping prices by about 10 cents per liter starting in the early mor
Dutch authorities have identified the woman killed in a crime two weeks ago as Ilenia Panzolini, a 45-year-old Italian national whose body was found shortly after 8 p.m.
The Dutch frigate Zr. Ms.
A 53-year-old motorcyclist was killed Friday afternoon when his vehicle collided with a tractor on the Weusdijk in Ruurlo, police said.
The Dutch housing market continued to cool in the first quarter of 2026, with buyers overbidding less aggressively for a second straight quarter, sales dropping sharply and more sellers cutting ask
KPN expanded its fibre-optic network significantly in the first quarter, connecting 86,000 additional households.
The lawyer representing the man accused of planning an attack on Princess Amalia and Princess Ale
Maxim, a 14-year-old from Apeldoorn, has been missing since April 18, 2026.
The public health institute RIVM wants the Dutch government to mandate a
A live white-beaked dolphin washed ashore on the beach of Egmond aan Zee on Sunday night, the SOS Dolfijn foundation
Due to a signal failure, no trains are running between Utrecht and The Hague on Monday morning.
Feyenoord took a huge step towards UEFA Champions League qualification on Sunday when they scored twice in the last 10 minutes to beat Fortuna Sittard away.
A 66-year-old man from Doornspijk died, and a 28-year-old man from Amersfoort was arrested following a seven-vehicle chain-reaction crash last Saturday at the German border control on the A12, Dutc
One person died and two others were hospitalized Sunday afternoon after a fire destroyed a row house on Frederik van Eedenstraat in Oldenzaal, RTL
Consumer group Foodwatch has launched a petition calling for stricter rules for the Aquaculture Stewardship Council and GlobalG.A.P.
Severe thunderstorms with hailstones up to 2 centimeters in diameter, heavy rai
A 34-year-old man from Ermelo was sentenced Friday to six weeks in prison for vandalizin
A total of 477,000 young people received youth care last year, a decline of 2.8% compared with the year before, a decline of 2.8% compared with the year before, according to Statistics Netherlands.
A goal from Mika Godts rescued a point for Ajax in the dying seconds against the Eredivisie champions PSV on Saturday.
The Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science has blocked a requirement for all primary schools to include daily movement in the curriculum.
The Dutch national police are rolling out a major overhaul that will make combating online crime a daily duty for all 60,000 officers, officials said.
Dutch people are showing reluctance to book summer flying vacations because of news about potential kerosene shortages and the war in the Middle East, but they continue to make reservations while s
The KNMI issued code yellow warnings Saturday for thunderstorms that could bring hail, strong wind gusts, and heavy rain t
The Netherlands’ largest union, FNV, is planning strikes in public transportation around mid-June to protest the cabinet’s social security proposals, which the union says break prior agreements and
A Rotterdam court has awarded almost 19,000 euros in compensation to a Zuid-Holland warehouse worker who was fired on the spot for tapping beers and clearing glasses at a friend’s bar while on sick
The condition of Roosendaal mayor Mark Buijs has shown slight improvement, but there is still a lot of uncertainty, the municipality said on its website. His recovery is expected to be lengthy.
The war in Iran has so far had only a limited effect on Dutch inflation. But Rabobank economists warn that the long-term effects will be much more severe.
Meta has reinstated several LGBTQ+accounts on its platforms.
After days of firefighting and a weekend of thunderstorms, all the wildfires that raged in the Netherlands since last week have been extinguished. At 9:30 p.m.
The National Monument on Dam Square in Amsterdam was defaced with red paint early on Monday morning.
Passenger organization Rover says the 30 km/h speed limits in Dutch urban areas are slowing bus services and putting pressure on public transport operations, AD
Max Verstappen finished fifth in the Miami Grand Prix on Sunday.
AZ Alkmaar scored in the final seconds of the game to ensure that the points were shared in their home game against FC Twente.
The Dutch public broadcaster NOS disclosed in its newly released annual report that it paid former general director Gerard Timmer a full 75,000-euro severance package — nearly four times the roughl
People damaged the IJsselstein town hall and adjacent Fulcotheater in an overnight attack, smashing multiple windows with bricks around 1:45 a.m.
A 38-year-old man from Amsterdam has been arrested on suspicion of involvement in a fatal stabbing that killed another Amsterdammer, 54, near a basketball court in Amsterdam-Oost, NH
Police arrested two men from Rotterdam, ages 18 and 22, last evening and overnight after a 17-year-old boy from Rotterdam was stabbed and shots were fired Saturday evening in the Delfshaven distric
One in 10 Dutch households has sufficient financial resources to invest but is not doing so, the Authority for the Financial Markets
The Belastingdienst, the Dutch Tax Authority, received a record nearly 10.7 million tax returns from individuals and entrepreneurs before the
Police arrested eight men Friday night after responding to a stabbing on Lekstraat in Winschoten, three of whom suffered stab or cut wounds.
Dutch shops posted higher sales in March than in the same month a year earlier, with no sign of a feared slowdown from public reactions to the war in the Middle East, figures from the CBS show.
Authorities declared a large wildfire at a military training ground near 't Harde under control Saturday morning, roughly two days after it started, while the separate fire between Weert and Budel
A group of Dutch journalists, technology experts, and scientists is asking a court to recognize them as stakeholders so they can force the government to block the planned
A massive fire completely destroyed a dessert and patisserie company in Ermelo early Saturday.
The police are testing out new weapons for the riot police following the severe riots by right-wing extremists at the Malieveld in The Hague last year, AD
A naked man caused a disturbance Thursday night in Tilburg when he was seen walking along a busy intersection on Ringbaan-West, close to the Westpoint building.
The first local summer day of the year has arrived, with temperatures reaching 25.1 degrees in the Limburg town of Ell on Friday afternoon.
People can again swim at hundreds of approved natural water sites that are deemed clean and safe from today.