Ghent

A kindergartener found a rat amongst toys at his school in Ghent this week. The Freinet School De Harp has been having problems with rats since works were c...

The cash machines will be installed in areas of the city where bank branch closures have meant that locals are forced to travel some distance if they want to...

The city of Ghent has decided not to clear up any discarded rubbish at several spots in the Citadel Park, one of the most beautiful green spaces in the East ...

AA Gent had called on supporters to bring relief supplies for Ukrainian refugees to the club’s fan shop on Saturday and Sunday.

It was at the Dampoort railway station in Ghent that police intervened to remove a drunken driver from a bus operated by the Flemish local transport company....

Aerial photos dating from the Fifties have been digitised and are now available to a wider audience. The 2,000 aerial photos had been completely forgotten. ...

The rector of Ghent University has launched a disciplinary investigation into alleged inappropriate sexual behaviour by one of the university’s professors.

A man who was hit on the head by a solar panel on Friday, as Storm Eunice passed over the East Flemish city of Ghent, had died of his injuries.

On Wednesday a 6-month-old girl was taken with life-threatening injuries from the crèche.

A six-month-old baby that was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries from a crèche in the Ghent suburb of Mariakerke on Wednesday has died.

Anyone that had due to visit the centre for a vaccine will be contacted to make a new appointment.

Flemish brewer Dok Brewing Company in Ghent has started to market ten Dutch beers. Due to the lockdown in the Netherlands the pubs are closed, and brewers f...

Critical care specialist Dominique Benoit (Ghent University Hospital) tells the politicians to take clear decisions.

Two iconic chippies in Ghent have been towed away after the proprietors failed to keep up with payments.

A woman from Ghent has just bought the old promotion coach used by Flemish cycling champ Tom Boonen. Eline Arnoys intends to turn the Van Hool coach into a t...

On Thursday evening the festival, that got under way on Wednesday attracted very large crowds.

There’s been yet another sexual assault in a bar in the student neighbourhood of Ghent (East Flanders). Police arrested a suspect, who was later released un...

The City of Ghent intends to consult with the police, hospitality and Meldet, the organisation that collects reports of sexual violence in the city. The mov...

It looks like a tragic accident, which happened in the middle of the night.

The shortage of student accommodation in the East Flemish capital has forced Ghent University to book rooms for foreign students in a hotel. Rooms for 32 in...

A court in Ghent has meted out fines of up to 4,000 euros to 13 defendants found guilty of fly-tipping. East Flemish prosecutors took a series of suspected ...

Around 100 workers from two departments at the Arcelor Mittal steel plant in Ghent (East Flanders) are taking strike action.

The City of Ghent is launching an offensive against the discarded fag end and in this battle Fons the Robot has received pride of place. Fons is a convention...

The fair city of Ghent has just launched a new campaign aimed at attracting tourists from the four corners of the continent of Europe. A special online tool...

The club-owners point to practical issues such as queues gathering outside their establishments.

Blond, a pub in Ghent, has decided to ban cisgender men. Cisgender men are men whose sense of personal identity and gender corresponds with their birth sex....

The Flemish Government has announced a large-scale investment programme in transport infrastructure in the East Flemish city of Ghent.

The street value of the drugs seized is around 25 million euro.

Details have emerged about a violent incident in the student bar area in Ghent on Monday night. A 20-year-old man was arrested after he head-butted a police...

A collection of Oldtimers brought together by the Mahy Family of the Ghent garage of the same name is now on show to the general public. The collection incl...

The Volvo car plant in the East Flemish city of Ghent will be idle for four out of five days next week.

The city authorities in Ghent (East Flanders) have decided not to expend the area covered by the city’s Low Emissions Zone.

The warehouse is Volvo Trucks' parts distribution hub for the whole of Europe.

An international wanted notice has been issued for a prisoner that escaped from Ghent Gaol on Wednesday.

The Medicines’ Agency has declared the coronavirus vaccines that were being stored at the vaccination centre at Flanders Expo in Ghent (East Flanders) to be ...

A power cut at the vaccination centre in the East Flemish city of Ghent has led to some of the centre’s vaccine supply having to be disposed of as it was no ...

The pedestrian bus, a slow means of transport that operated across the pedestrian precincts of the East Flemish capital, is to disappear from sight. The bus...

Authorities in the fair city of Ghent are clamping down on boom cars, vehicles that cause annoyance as a result of their loud engines. Police are being give...

The authorities in Ghent have called on Ghentians to stick to corona measures after the number of infections in the East Flemish capital doubled in only ten ...

Visitors to the library of the Literature and Philosophy Faculty at Ghent University may be forgiven for thinking they have strayed into the wrong department...

Police have received several reports of a man exhibiting his privates in Mariakerke (Ghent) and Lievegem (East Flanders). The disturbed individual is eager ...