26/2/20 - Three days of revelry are at an end in Aalst, capital of Flemish carnival. On the last day of the party most of the men dressed up in drag as is ...

26/2/20 - The weather gods had a treat in store for Flemish youth: snowballs and the building of snowmen were all the vogue. The snow meant a difficult morn...

Sleet and snow were motorists’ lot in vast tracts of Flanders this morning. Drivers have been asked to be alert because the sleet and snow may cause slipper...

Between now and the end of next week between 20 and 40 lams will be born at this farm every day.

23/2/20 - The Leon Spilliaert exhibition has just opened at the Royal Academy in London. It’s the first time that the painter is being shown to the public in...

23/2/20 - Wind speeds of 9 Beaufort have been recorded on the Flemish coast with gusts topping 90 km/h. Flanders is bearing the brunt of a storm for the thi...

22/2/20 - European leaders have failed in their bid to come up with a deal to tackle the financial shortfall in the EU budget now that Britain has left the b...

22/2/20 – The airport police work-to-rule at Brussels Airport continues. Police officers are protesting against staff shortages. Travellers are advised to t...

In future those that gain recognised refugee status won’t be given back payments of child benefit for the period they were waiting to be given recognition as...

The socialist public service union ACOD staged a protest on the Scheldt Bridge in Oudenaarde on Friday Morning.

19/2/20 - The Flemish culture award ceremony in Bruges did not pass without incident on Tuesday. Flemish Prime and Culture Minister Jan Jambon (Flemish nati...

19/2/20 - The EU's brand new commission president Ursula von der Leyen has visited the AI Experience Centre at the Flemish Free University of Brussels, the V...

19/2/20 - The Oosterweel Tunnel is part of the new link that will complete the Antwerp orbital. The tunnel under the River Schelde will stretch for 1.8km. ...

17/2/20 - Kim Clijsters plays the Spanish-Venezuelan Garbiñe Muguruza at the Dubai tennis tournament. It’s the match of the day. International commentators ...

17/2/20 - 82 km of new road surface and 20 km of noise barriers are being laid out this year. Add in other roadworks and you have 38 building sites along Fl...

17/2/20 - Hooverphonic will represent Belgium at the Eurovision Song Contest in May. Everybody here is very excited about “Release Me” that has just been po...

Eight Belgians that were repatriated from China two weeks ago were allowed to leave the Military Hospital at Neder-Over-Heembeek on Sunday afternoon.

The singer-songwriter Milow has enjoyed a string of hits both at home and abroad since 2006.

From next month motorists that have passed their driving test but have failed to attend a mandatory refresh course will be fined.

The block of flats is located on the Spinmolenplein, near to the Groenevallei Park.

The Bright Brussels exhibition runs until Sunday and its free of charge.

13/2/20 - King Filip and Queen Mathilde concluded their trip to New York on Broadway where they attended a try-out of a new version of West Side Story direct...

13/2/20 - The scale of the problem is unclear. Belgium’s equal opportunities centre hasn’t been inundated with complaints: not everybody is ready to go this...

12/2/20 - A cyclist was killed in Arendonk in the Antwerp Kempen district last night. A 32-year-old man was hit by a car travelling in the other direction. ...

12/2/20 - King Filip and Queen Mathilde are visiting New York as part of their two-day trip to mark the Belgian presidency of the UN Security Council. The Be...

On Tuesday night Flemish rock giant Arno gave his last concert for the time being. The Ostender played Le Trianon in Paris, but after he was diagnosed with ...

The family of Julie Van Espen have written an open letter in which they condemn what they say is negligence on the part of the Justice Department.

The Turkish journalist Hassan Abdullah was a guest in our daily current affairs programme ‘Terzake’.

10/2/20 - Koen Geens, the Flemish Christian democrat justice minister entrusted with forming a new federal government, has reported back to King Filip. Ten ...

10/2/20 - Strong gusts on the Antwerp quayside also this morning. Foam tops the waves on the River Schelde. Storm force winds flush seawater inland. A spr...

10/2/20 - Storm Ciara left a trail of devastation the length and breadth of the country. Trees were blown down, tiles were ripped off roofs and scaffolding ...

High winds caused the collapse of scaffolding that had been set up in front of a building in the East Flemish city of Ghent on Sunday afternoon.

The owl is believed to be staying somewhere near to the town's cooling towers.

6/2/2020 - Visitors to shops and restaurants in Antwerp’s Chinatown are few and far between. It seems it’s above all Orientals who are staying away to the s...

6/2/2020 - Gangsters blew up a cashpoint at a post office in Dilbeek outside Brussels this morning. It’s unclear whether the gangsters got away with any boo...

6/2/2020 - The Bob campaign encouraging revellers to designate a sober driver over the Christmas period is at an end. Police checked over half a million dri...

The southern city of Namur (Wallonia) is experiencing flooding after the River Maas (Meuse) burst its banks at several locations across the city. Heavy rain...

5/2/20 - Prof Marc Van Ranst’s lab at Leuven University is the reference laboratory for novel corona and other respiratory viruses in Belgium. It’s here tha...

5/2/20 - Philp Soubry is the only Belgian so far to come down with novel corona virus. He was among the nine Belgians repatriated from Wuhan in China. He i...

31 black women tell of their experiences in a new theatre production.