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Interior Minister Annelies Verlinden sent a strange Twitter message last night, about an upcoming match of the Belgian hockey men at the Olympics.

The Red Cross already collected 30 million euros in a fundraiser for last month's flood victims. Meanwhile, it was criticized by some volunteers.

The Flow open air swimming pool next to the canal in the Brussels municipality of Anderlecht is proving to be a great success.

As much as between 10 and 20 litres of rain per M² could fall in some areas.

The incident happened on Friday night in the Flemish Brabant municipality of Scherpenheuvel-Zichem.

The Brussels Judicial Authorities have opened an investigation after a man died following his arrest by police in the municipality of Schaarbeek.

The organisation for missing and abused children Child Focus has called for children to be given lessons on how to use the internet safely from when they are...

As at the start of every month 1 August will bring with it a number of changes that will affect us in our everyday lives.

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 ...

The municipal authorities in one of the Walloon municipalities that was most severely impacted by the devesting flooding two weeks ago have ordered the demol...

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 third phase of the authorities’ relaxation of the restrictions on events, both indoors and outside, comes into force from today.

The vaccination drive in Flanders is a big success. Figures from science health institute Sciensano reveal that 90% of the adult population of northern Belgi...

Holidaymakers returning to Brussels from red zone countries are pushing up the number of cases of coronavirus in the Belgian and Flemish capital. Some 9,800...

Vandals are suspected of poisoning 15,000 bees at a hive in Meerhout (Antwerp Province) operated by the Boerderbij project. “We found them with their tongue...

Belgian justice minister Vincent Van Quickenborne (Flemish liberal) is abolishing the margin of tolerance for traffic fines. This means that you can be fine...

The total number of people that lost their lives in the flooding in Wallonia almost two weeks ago has reached 41.

The case of the devastating gas explosion that destroyed a house on Antwerp’s Paardenmarkt in 2018 is to go appeal.

The Royal Meteorological Institute KMI has issued a Code Yellow weather warning that is applicable to the whole country.

King Filip’s younger brother Prince Laurent has said in a newspaper interview that he regrets having attended the celebrations for Belgium’s National Day las...

19-year-old Zara Rutherford hopes to become the youngest woman ever to fly around the world single-handed.

With more heavy rain forecast for today the Royal Meteorological Institute KMI has issued a Code Amber weather warning for West Flanders that will remain in ...

A big clean-up is underway in Namur after last night’s torrential rains and floods. Most of the water has now flowed away. What remains is an awful lot of ...

No let up just yet in the weather situation with more thundery showers today and on Monday.

In Flanders Antwerp Province bore the brunt of last night’s storm damage. Across the province heavy thunderstorms wreaked havoc.

With most of the country the subject of an amber weather warning in Flanders concern is mounting in the Valley of the River Demer about the oncoming storm. ...

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...

The good folk of the seaside resort of Middelkerke (West Flanders) have opened their hearts and homes to people from Wallonia, who have been hit hard by the ...

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 last remaining newspaper booth in Brussels, at the Louiza Gallery, has to go due to construction works.

The amber alert applies mostly to eastern Belgium, though rainfall can be heavy in western provinces as well.

Over 10,000 Verviers residents and more than 2,000 from Pepinster will have to move as their homes have been badly damaged by the recent floods.

Last year, the number of newly-born babies in Belgium was 3 percent down on the year, federal statistics show.

Today and Friday will be sunny, but the weather will change as from the weekend. Several Flemish municipalities hope that the rain will not be too strong.

Thirty-two people are now known to have died as a result of the floods in Limburg and Wallonia – up from 31 yesterday. The figure comes from Belgium’s crisi...

Over 400 undocumented people, who have been on hunger strike since 23 May, have suspended their protest. The hunger strikers at the Beguinage Church in Brus...

Since the floods each night around eighty federal police officers are being deployed. Federal police say that given the very difficult conditions in which pe...

Accommodation needs to be found for 9,000 people from the Verviers and Pepinster areas of Liege Province that was devastated by the floods. Many households ...