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The great apes at Antwerp and Planckendael zoos are being served less fruit and more green vegetables. Thanks to this vegetable diet, the monkeys live health...

We can all look forward to another glorious, sunny day today, with temperatures rising to 25 degrees in central parts. The Met Office is forecasting sunny we...

New figures show a record number of people quit Brussels last year to go and live in Flanders. A total of 24,165 Brussels residents moved out. Higher propert...

A mobile testing lab at the Extrema Outdoor dance festival in Houthalen-Helchteren (Limburg) discovered 6 dangerous types of ecstasy pills. As a result festi...

Police escorted a group of youths from Brussels from the Blaarmeersen recreation park in Ghent (East Flanders), yesterday. Police were called in after report...

Amaury Paquet and Hanna Vandenbussche won yesterday’s 20 kilometres of Brussels. For Paquet, from Liège, it is the third time in a row that he is first to cr...

Stamps denominated in Belgian francs can still be used until 1 January 2028. "But it is important that the value of the old stamp corresponds to the value of...

Sun, sun and more sun. That’s what is on the agenda during the forthcoming long Whitsun weekend.

Olivier Vandecasteele spent 455 days in an Iranian prison.

An ammunition dump from the First World War has been discovered in the Schipstraat in Zonnebeke.

Last year, at least 79 people died in Brussels who were either still living on the streets or lived on the streets for a prolonged period previously.

The Flemish Transport Minister Lydia Peeters has ordered the Flemish Highways and Traffic Agency to modify new road signs that it has erected at the Antwerp ...

A man and his two children have died after the car they were travelling in ended up in a canal at Lommel in Limburg Province.

The study also shows a reduction in the use of contraceptives such as the pill and condoms among teenagers.

Forest rangers have start scouring the Sonian Forest around Groenendaal, near Hoeliaart in Flemish Brabant in search of the “oak tree with breast”.

The emergency landing passed without incident.

Since 9pm on Thursday the Kennedy Tunnel under the River Scheldt has been closed to traffic heading east.

The damaged caused by the leak is considerable and the Theodoor Van Rijswijcklaan will remain closed to traffic for some time yet.

It is still unclear how the accident came to occur.

A 45-year-old man has died in an industrial accident at a house Zonhoven (Limburg Province).

From 9pm on Thursday evening the Kennedy Tunnel under the River Scheldt will be closed to eastbound traffic.

63,686 births were registered in Flanders last year.

A 15-year-old girl has been seriously injured after she was hit by a tram in the Antwerp district of Merksem.

A Justice of the piece at a Magistrates Court in Antwerp has ruled that the chemical company 3M must pay provisional compensation of 2,000 euro to a family f...

Probably the biggest change of all is obligation to put food waste into special, orange-coloured bin lines and no longer in the white bin liners used for non...

It is thought that the one on the drivers became unwell just before the accident.

The number of reports of unaccompanied child migrants in Belgium was 30% higher in 2022 than was the case in 2021.

A train driver stopped his train in the Flemish Brabant municipality of Liedekerke on Thursday in order to be able to offer assistance to a an injured rose-r...

The Royal Meteorological Institute (KMI) warns of particular inclement weather for much of Friday.

A printing error has meant that around 100,000 taxpayers in Belgium have been sent an incorrect Simplified Tax Declaration Proposal.

Last year the Brussels Region issued almost 20,000 fines to drivers who had flouted the LEZ regulations and had entered the zone in vehicles no longer allowe...

First-year archaeology students at Leuven University have made some surprising finds during excavations in the courtyard of Arenberg Castle in Heverlee (Leuv...

The search for a suitable location for a new Brussels international bus station continues. It’s a search that has been underway for a quarter of a century now.

In Ghent, more trams are being fitted with a system to muffle the screeching noise the vehicles make in bends. Flemish public transport company De Lijn is lo...

Princess Okokon has won this year’s City of Ieper's Peace Prize. It’s an award given to a person or organisation working for world peace. Okokon is a Nigeria...

The family of the young man, who died at Zaventem Station on Friday has launched an appeal against further violence. "We wish support, not revenge," a Facebo...

The actor Dimitri Leue will have to spend the nextb5 days in hospital after a rather unpleasant encounter with Canada geese.

It is still unclear why the man fled and why he through the money out of the window of the car.

Three young men have been charged with grievous bodily harm after a fight at the station in the Flemish Brabant municipality of Zaventem of Friday evening en...

For a number of years now the number of insurance policies that have been taken out for pets has been on the rise. It’s not surprising really because as man...