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Around 150 disgruntled customers of the Brussels public transport company MIVB staged a demonstration in Brussels on Sunday afternoon.

For the first time since 2003 there will be a rail service to and from a Belgian station that will travel through the night to reach its destination the foll...

The figures for the funds raised during the 2018-2019 campaign were more than 25% higher than the more than 28 million euro raised during the 2017-2018 campa...

The activists made speeches, handed out leaflets and threw themselves in front of some of the cars that were on display.

The fact that life guards will be present also means that dog owners and others that use the sections of beach will also be able to swim in the sea if they s...

A 55-year-old man was stabbed to death in the centre of Antwerp on Wednesday morning. The man runs a bureau de change. Prosecutors say he was the victim of...

Hasselt University is introducing a course of “general French” for first year students at its economics and commercial sciences department. The move comes i...

Previously Belgium and Prussia had jointly administered the 344 hectares that made up the territory of Neutral Moresnet.

Belgium’s new electronic ID card has been presented in Lokeren, one of the pilot cities where the card is being issued.

2019 was a bumper year for the Brussels local transport company MIVB/STIB. Passenger numbers were up by 4%. The carrier conveyed passengers on 434 million ...

The Flemish Highways Agency is renewing the lights on what is one of the busiest motorway interchanges in the region.

Previously a several Brussels municipalities such as Sint-Joost-ten-Node and Koekelberg banned the possession and use of laughing gas in their respective areas.

Technical problems at Belnet are at the root of the IT issues that are affecting 1 in 3 municipal authorities in our region.

What’s more the researchers also found that the knowledge of Dutch among this group of pupils was not undermined by them being taught some of their subject t...

The Federal Finance Department has suspended a customs officer after his You Tube channel was found to contain messages of hate towards Moslems and homosexua...

23,000 asylum seekers filed an application in Belgium last year. The figure is up on the year, but still under the record set during the asylum crisis in 20...

The prison in Wortel (Antwerp province) was the scene of a breakaway. One inmate had a failed attempt, but another one managed to flee. He is still on the run.

23-year-old Max Meijer was last seen on Sunday 8 December after an evening out, but since then every trace of him was lost.

They are reported to have discovered among a shipment of tangerines at the distribution centre on the Zinkstraat in the town that is around 18 km southwest o...

A thousand Belgian household helps have gone on strike. They are demanding a 1.1% pay increase above their rise for inflation. Talks with employers are gett...

The municipal authorities in the Flemish Brabant town of Vilvoorde have given a posthumous honour to the 21-year-old man that drowned in the Brussels-Schelde...

Each time he visits a station or stop he takes a picture of himself in front of the station sign.

The 21-year-old student went missing after attending a New Year’s party in the Flemish Brabant town of Vilvoorde.

There were more than 100 molehills, making it impossible to play a match on the pitch.

The Tenants Platform has spoken out against plans by the Flemish Government to look into the possibility of drawing up a black list of errant tenants, landlo...

From the start of next year a speed limit of 30 km/h will become the rule in the whole of the Brussels-Capital Region.

Bus services operated by the Flemish public transport company De Lijn have new terminus stops at Brussels North Railway station.

The body of Frederik Vanclooster, the 21-year-old student, who went missing after a party on New Year’s Eve, has been recovered from the canal at Vilvoorde.

The search for missing student Frederik Vanclooster continues in Vilvoorde today. The search was suspended on Friday amid concerns repeating the same action...

Around 500 people took part in a demo in protest against violence directed at gays. An incident last week in which two gay men were attacked in the centre o...

The Met Office has issued a weather warning for slippery roads. Clear skies towards morning in western parts mean there’s a danger of ground frost and the f...

The Belgian asylum and migration secretary Maggie De Block (Flemish liberal) has decided that asylum seekers who don’t follow the procedures will no longer r...

Stricter rules have come into force in the low emission zones for motorised vehicles in Antwerp and Brussels, while in Ghent a low emission zone was introduc...

The cause of the nasty smell up in Antwerp has been tracked down. The stench is due to a problem at the ATPC oil refinery in the Port of Antwerp. The odour...

The news that the American authorities had had a change of heart has been confirmed by Mr Benhaddou.

The search for 21 year-old Frederik Vanclooster from Vilvoorde (Flemish Brabant) has been stopped for the next few days.

The not-for-profit group Moeders voor Moeders says that during 2019 one baby was left at its “foundling draw” in the Antwerp district of Borgerhout.

Over the past couple of days both the police and numerous volunteers have been searching for Frederik Vanclooster.

Staff at De Lijn have been taking industrial action all week as part of an ongoing dispute on a series of grievances.

Police are still looking for Frederik Vanclooster, a 22-year-old student, who went missing in Vilvoorde (Flemish Brabant) after a New Year’s Eve party.

A Belgian judge has blocked the surrender to Spain of the former Catalan premier Carles Puigdemont. Sr Puigdemont, a fervent Catalan nationalist, is wanted ...