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The Netherlands is working on a bill to allow escooters on public roads in 2025, but Amsterdam expresses serious concerns.

In “Lintjesregen 2023: deze bekende en onbekende Amsterdammers kregen een onderscheiding,” Madelief van Dongen (Het Parool) announced that 38 well-known and lesser-known Amsterdam residents were honored by Mayor Femke Halsema during a celebratory ceremony at the end of April. Among these awardees are Mitchell Esajas, co-founder of The Black Archives, and Lucia Nankoe, expert in…

The suspect had travelled to Poland shortly after the projection and extradition attempts are now being made.

During King's Day, people from across the Netherlands flock to Amsterdam to join flea markets, parties, and open-air concerts. While this generally remains festive and cheerful, also causes problems for local residents, with public urination and a lack of facilities for women being primary concerns.

Historians and archivists are excited and concerned about providing unfettered public online access to investigators’ files that have been restricted since the end of World War II.

The four-storey fietsflat near Amsterdam Central Station will be removed permanently by the end of the year, after decades of use as a free storage point for bicycles and scooters. The decision was announced by Amsterdam's traffic alderman, Melanie van der Horst, on Thursday.

Magic mushroom droplets are becoming increasingly popular in Amsterdam’s nightlife crowd. Many partiers prefer the psychedelic drug to alcohol, especially with inflation pushing up drink prices.

The parents that allegedly abandoned their newborn girl in an underground garbage container on Meernhof in Amsterdam-Zuidoost in early 2021 are now suspected of murdering another baby at an earlier date, Het Parool reported on Wednesday. A spokesperson for the Public Prosecution Service confirmed the allegation when contacted by the newspaper.

Plans for the airport to be rolled out in the coming two years include closing it almost completely between midnight and 5 A.M.

Amsterdams schiphol airport plans to cut late—night flights as part of attempts to reduce noise pollution, according to reports in a dutch newspaper. citing the airports chief executive, the newspaper — het parool — reports that plans for the airport will include closing almost completely between midnight and 5 am dont forget you can get in touch with me and some of the team on twitter. a bad day for the thai companies. truth be told, i left mine two floors up and it was too late to go bac...