Five people have been arrested in connection with fraudulent claims for earthquake damage in Groningen province, finance ministry investigators said on Thursday. The five are suspected of fraud and ...

Around one in six secondary school pupils are unable to write a simple story or message at the end of their second year, according to an education ministry inspectors’ report. The problem is ...

Dutch shipbuilder Damen and several of its top executives are to stand trial for a wide range of alleged criminal offences, following an eight-year investigation into the Gorinchem-based family ...

Flushed with the heat of the kitchen, Julia Rutkowska has just finished making an exotic chicken stew for homeless people in Amsterdam West. “It was very enjoyable, to be honest,” she said, as she ...

The number of new HIV infections in the Netherlands is expected to increase in the coming years, ending a long-running downward trend, according to new figures published on Thursday by the Stichting ...

The disappearance of the village of Moerdijk came a step closer to reality on Wednesday evening when councillors voted in favour of the plan to allow the expansion of the nearby port and industrial ...

Dutch and European privacy advocacy groups have slammed proposals by the European Commission to relax rules for the tech sector, saying they represent the biggest rollback of digital rights in the ...

Dutch news organisations have issued a joint warning about the growing power of major international tech companies, saying they pose a serious threat to democracy and access to reliable information.

Amsterdam is once again the “most attractive” city in the Netherlands to live in, according to the latest edition of the local authority almanac Atlas voor gemeenten, which ranks the 50 biggest cities ...

Wintry weather on roads in the south and east has led to problems on both the roads and the railways on Thursday morning. The ANWB motoring organisation said that by 8.45am the jams stretched for more ...

Ben Coates must have used up a lot of shoe leather when he was out researching The Invention of Amsterdam: Europe’s greatest city in 10 walks. Coates, who has lived in the Netherlands for more than a ...

A 40-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of smuggling people from the Netherlands to Britain using his sailing yacht, Dutch border police said on Wednesday. He is also suspected of money ...