Heating plastic-packaged ready meals—even those labeled as “safe to heat”—and takeout foods in microwaves or ovens can release hundreds of thousands of microplastic and nanoplastic particles, along ...

Hornbach has introduced a robot to its Zwolle store, making it the first retailer in the Netherlands to deploy such ...

Spending on buildings, machinery, vehicles, and equipment in the Netherlands fell 2.6 percent in December 2025 compared with the same month a year earlier, the CBS reported.The drop was mainly caused ...

Utrecht’s city council seeks to stop issuing fines to people sleeping outdoors. A motion from BIJ1 urging this, reportedly ...

Dutch investigators arrested three people and searched multiple properties last week in a tax fraud investigation involving ...

The police stopped using the Criminality Anticipation System (CAS) in December, an algorithm that predicted the risk of criminal activity. The force confirmed this after reports in the Volkskrant. The ...

Dutch municipalities are actively purchasing land again, BNR found when analyzing data on the use of preferential rights and transaction data from the Land Registry. According to the broadcaster, ...

Just a few days into his run as prime minister, Rob Jetten said after a Cabinet meeting on Friday that he presses charges on a weekly basis because of hate speech aimed at the openly gay politician.

The Rotterdam juvenile court has found five of seven suspects, aged 15 and older, guilty of, among other charges, Islamic State (ISIS) membership and using TikTok to encourage others to commit ...

A Dutch man known for his far-right views is currently under arrest in Syria, RTL has reported. Max van den Berg, dubbed the “torch threat” after he showed up in 2022 with a burning torch outside the ...

A man was injured on Friday morning while working on Tolbrugstraat in ’s‑Hertogenbosch (Den Bosch). The man had cut a cable, thinking it was from KPN, but it was a high-voltage power line, giving him ...

AZ Alkmaar will face Czech side Sparta Prague in the last 16 round of the UEFA Conference League. The Alkmaarders found out ...