Reconstruction work on Boulevard Clovis will begin this summer following the approval of all permits, the City of Brussels has announced. The works include separate ochre-coloured cycling paths and a central square with vegetable gardens that will serve as a recreational gathering place. In 2020,...

The transmigrant who won €250,000 in a Belgian lottery draw a week and a half ago has resurfaced after going missing. The young African migrant bought the winning €5 scratch car at the Spar supermarket in Zeebrugge. But collecting the prize money has proved to be a challenge, De Standaard reports...

Pierre Verbeeren, the coordinator for Ukrainian refugees in Brussels, says the city wants to offer temporary shelter to 20,000 refugees from Ukraine by July. It's looking for 150,000 m² of space to be transformed into housing, Bruzz reports. "This amounts to a new, small Brussels municipality," he...

Thirty trucks chartered by the Belgian First Aid and Support Team (B-Fast), 14 by the federal health department, and €85 million released so far. These are the current figures for aid granted by Belgium following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, reports RTBF. Prime minister Alexander De Croo saw...

Warmer weather is forecast in Belgium over the next few days along with a return of orange sand particles originating from North Africa. With a risk of rain on Wednesday, there could be Saharan dust falling amid the downpours. But the weather phenomenon is likely to be less dramatic than the one in...

The Brussels Short Film Festival (BSFF) celebrates its 25th anniversary in cinemas across the capital from 20 to 30 April. For the occasion, the festival is screening some of its most treasured films from the past quarter century as well as some excellent new productions. Launched in 1998 by Céline...

A 35-year-old Belgian woman died in the Netherlands after undergoing a detox treatment, according to various media reports. The Public Prosecutor's Office in the Netherlands confirmed it was conducting an investigation – including a toxicological examination – into the death of a Belgian woman...

FleurAkker , the flower picking garden in Brussels that gives customers the opportunity to pick their own bouquets straight from the field, is expanding with a new stretch of land along a cycling route in Jette. With the newest field, “we are much more in sight,” flower farmer Annemie Knaepen, who...

A Brussels start-up is trying to revolutionise the way we buy drinks with an ecologically responsible delivery service, RTBF and Bruzz report. Arnaud Vanderveken and Sebastiaan Van de Voorde, the two Brussels residents behind the Cheers to You project, came upon the idea during the coronavirus...