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The number of Dutch workers who stay in work beyond the statutory retirement age has increased by more 50% in...

Long-term care minister Mirjan Sterk has refused to launch an independent investigation into a Dutch youth care scheme in which...

Nearly half of Dutch MPs used artificial intelligence to help write speeches and statements delivered in parliament, according to an...

A 23-year-old man has been arrested in connection of the discovery of a woman’s body in a suitcase in Amsterdam....

PSV survived a second-half onslaught in Porto to secure their first win of the Champions League group stages.

The Council of Churches in the Netherlands is temporarily stepping in to help shelter refugees amid the ongoing asylum crisis....

The Netherlands has met its target for filling its gas reserves before the onset of winter, but only after reducing...

Amsterdam city council has introduced an experimental speed limit of 20km/h for cyclists to see if riders can be persuaded...

Eastern Drenthe is perhaps the most underrated part of the Netherlands.

School leaders in the Netherlands are opting against the idea of a four-day week for primary schools amid a critical...

Dutch national train operator NS is set to raise fares by almost 5% on average in 2027, exceeding the rate...

Food delivery apps Thuisbezorgd and Uber Eats have been forced to stop hiding fees and advertising fake discounts after a...

Young adults who spent their teenage years in a household relying on benefits are far less likely to have a...

Ahold Delhaize, the parent company of Dutch supermarket chain Albert Heijn, filed a police report on Monday over the cyberattack...

Campaigners for the widows of former Japanese prisoners of war have said they will keep fighting for compensation after the...

The body of a woman who went missing after taking a lift on a bike with an unknown man has...

A letter from the Belastingdienst has landed on the doormat, and it might as well be written in code.

Prime minister Rob Jetten is going to become a father next year, he announced on social media on Monday.

Regional bus services across the Netherlands will be heavily disrupted on Wednesday, after the FNV and CNV unions called a...

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South African jurist Navi Pillay, who has served as a judge at both the International Criminal Court and the International...

In a joint statement on Friday some 30 cultural organisations in Groningen announced they were banning the use of smart...

Patients who use medicinal cannabis face having to switch to imported products after the only licensed grower in the Netherlands...

The rainbow flag will fly at the Dutch parliament building on Sunday, Coming Out Day, after MPs overturned a decision...

MPs are calling for a bill criminalising support for terrorist organisations to be pushed through faster, after demonstrators carried a...

A new plan by care agencies and insurance companies aims to create 30 residential care zones in the Maastricht-Heuvelland area...

Defence minister Dilan Yeşilgöz has started calling Russia “the enemy” rather than “the aggressor”, but says the change in wording...

The Dutch customs service will have to endure substantial budget cuts because it is not formally counted as part of...

The IamExpat Fair is returning to the Grote Kerk in The Hague on Saturday November 7 with more exhibitors than...

The law governing how transgender people could change their legal gender had profound physical, psychological, and social consequences, according to...

Home buyers in the Netherlands had more choice and, in some cases, more room to negotiate over the summer, but...

Construction company BAM announced on Thursday that it had purchased Geldermalsen-based pipelines company A.Hak for more than half a billion...

The mayor of Alkmaar is facing scrutiny over her decision to bar all supporters of Israeli club Hapoel Be’er Sheva...

Thursday will continue to be wet after heavy rains on Wednesday evening, which have driven down temperatures across the country...

The cabinet is set to announce a €50 million investment in the Port of Rotterdam for nature conservation measures, including...

Between 6,000 and 11,000 homes in the Netherlands have been bought with forged documents in recent years, according to an...

Investigators from the food and product safety board NVWA have raided the homes and businesses of two livestock traders in...

Dutch MPs have backed a plan to introduce compulsory age verification for websites advertising sexual services, to protect children from...

An Amsterdam judge has signalled she is likely to back Booking.com in its attempt to make staff work at least...

Unions and employers say they have had constructive talks with ministers as they try to end the impasse over next...

The last elected politician representing Nieuw Sociaal Contract (NSC), the party formed three years ago by former CDA MP Pieter...

The European Court of Justice has ordered the Dutch government to process the asylum applications of 140,000 Ukrainian refugees, adding...

Novelist Anjet Daanje has been tipped as a serious contender for the Nobel prize in literature and, from her 2022...

The number of new cancer diagnoses in the Netherlands is expected to rise by almost a quarter to nearly 170,000...

MPs want 130,000 civilians trained to support the police, army and emergency services during major crises, and have asked the...

Shepherds in the Veluwe region have come up with a novel solution to deter wolf attacks by hiring Italian mountain...

When Gina Saarberg started cooking porridge as a student to save money on food, she could never have guessed that...

Naarden-based venture capital firm Forbion, which specialises in life sciences companies, has raised €2.3 billion for 2 new biotech funds,...

Website Booking.com has asked a court to order its employees to work at least two days a week in the...

Cinema screenings of the Israeli documentary Naza, which investigates the war on Gaza, is being suspended from most Dutch cinemas...