Latest News Headlines Limburg

An 80-year-old from Antwerp made a lurid find on Wednesday morning in the house that he rented to four Belgian Limburg fifties in the Walloon village of Forzée. One of the tenants...

The 'typesetter' hits in Pelt, in Heusden-Zolder and Genk. In the Meerdaalwoud countless spruces need to be cut down after damage by this bark beetle, and also the Heverleebos is...

A 40-year-old woman from Dongen, Brabant, was sentenced to 1.5 years in Belgium for stealing copper drain pipes from eighteen churches in Belgian Limburg. The court in Tongeren...

The gas plant in Maasbracht in Limburg must help Belgium through the winter. Via an underground cable, the Belgian high-voltage grid must be connected to the gas plant next year.

The two children of a Syrian warrior who arrived in Belgium on Monday may stay with their grandmother in Beringen in Belgian Limburg. That has been determined by the juvenile court after, according to the lawyer...

In a warehouse that served as a drug lab, the Belgian police found three deaths. According to the newspaper Het Belang van Limburg, the police were at 4 o'clock in the morning at the warehouse in the...

A 23-year-old man from the Limburg town of Born died this weekend in Krakow. He probably fell from the roof of the hotel where he stayed with friends.

The German railways, Deutsche Bahn, advise passengers to travel by train on Monday in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). Trade unions have announced 'warning strikes' which, according to the railways, mainly hit NRW, which borders, among other things, our provinces Limburg, Gelderland and Overijssel.

The Scottish Jenny Graham (38) is the first woman to cycle around the world alone in 125 days with all her luggage. She arrived in Berlin on Thursday evening at the Brandenburger Tor, where she had left in the east on 16 June.

The area in Colombia where coca plants are grown has never been so great. According to a report published by the United Nations on Wednesday), the area in the South American country grew by 17 percent in 2017 to 2,170 square kilometers, which is approximately the area of ​​the Dutch province of Limburg. This corresponds to a potential coca leaf harvest from which almost 1400 tonnes of cocaine can be extracted.

Two men from Landgraaf, who are suspected of threatening the mayor of Voerendaal, have been released on Friday. They continue to suspect, reports the Public Prosecutor. The two were arrested in early August. They would also have set fire in a shed in that Limburg municipality.

The entire staff of a Belgian school reported sick in protest against the appointment of a new director.

The brother and a friend of the main suspect of the shooting in Spa will be brought before Thursday in Amsterdam. Then it is checked whether the two in \u0026 rendition detention \u0026 # x27; be placed. After all, Belgium has asked the Netherlands to deliver the duo.

A Dutch citizen has been sentenced by the court in Tongeren to ten years in prison in Belgium for his role in a violent robbery against his former in-laws in 2015.

Mediahuis, the publisher of, among others, De Telegraaf, takes over Theme Media in Flanders. This is specialized in door-to-door papers in Flemish Brabant and Limburg.

You would expect it in Zimbabwe sooner, but also with our southern neighbors it happens. A Belgian minister has several times with roaring sirens in escort transport through the country causing enormous traffic jams.

Approximately 250 people on Saturday afternoon in Belgium filed a declaration against the Belgian state, the operator of the Belgian nuclear power plants and the Belgian nuclear watchdog FANC. Among them a number of people from Limburg.

A 100 percent Muslim state and men and women must travel separately on public transport. The Belgian party Islam comes with controversial plans in the run-up to the municipal elections in the autumn. This to anger of voters and other politicians. 'No sharia. Not now. Never ever.'

In Belgium, it is shocked to respond to the plans of the Muslim party 'Islam', which calls for the separation of men and women in public transport. This is to protect women from palsy men. The ultimate goal of the party, a hundred percent Islamic state, is also controversial.

Kevin De Bruyne has the police behind him. At least, the lookalike of the Belgian international. The Leuven police are looking for the duplicate of Manchester City's football player, because on 16 March he would have been involved in a bicycle accident in the same city.

Michel Lelièvre, the former henchman of child rapist and murderer Marc Dutroux, has recently become accustomed to freedom. He recently spent 36 hours outside the prison walls. This will happen more often in the coming period, with a number of limitations. His lawyer Benjamine Bovy has said that Thursday against the Belgian TV channel VTM.

In a house in Belgian Herentals, the body of a 27-year-old woman was found on Tuesday. She would have been killed by force.

The Public Prosecution Service in Belgium started an investigation after the discovery of a baby's body, which was discovered Saturday night in a travel case in Belgian Limburg.

Seven of the twelve men who picked up the Belgian police on Tuesday evening in a big action against the Hells Angels remain in the cell. After interrogation, the investigating judge released five of them, two of them under conditions, the federal prosecutor announced.

The police have done raids in clubhouses of the motorcycle club Hells Angels in the Belgian province of Limburg. During the raids in Genk and Lanaken, two police helicopters were also deployed.

For the first time in over 100 years, a wolf has been spotted in Flanders. 'It is the first time that we are 100% sure that a wolf has been spotted in our country, because the animal is equipped with a collar transmitter and is followed by a German scientist,' says Jan Loos from the Welcome Wolf association to the VRT..

A Belgian train driver last week deliberately drove a snail's pace to arrive with a considerable delay. Cedric Grumiaux does that in order to be dismissed as quickly as possible.

The 19-year-old Quincy S.G. from the Belgian town of Deurne has been sentenced to eighteen months in prison. He stepped into a police station with eleven bags of cocaine early last year. Another hundred grams of cannabis lay in his Vespa in front of the door.

A woman (40) was Wednesday in the court to account for the death of an 83-year-old elderly in nursing home Toermalien in the Belgian Genk. The nurse had placed the woman on the toilet in the evening, but then forgot to put her in bed. The stuck elderly person of Turkish origin fell over and died of suffocation.

Once again a young man died from a strangulation. 24-year-old Wesley Denivel was found in her bathroom by his grandmother on December 20th.