SNCB is closing manned ticket counters in 44 of its stations, including Jette. In another 37 stations, counters will remain open but hours will become more limited. Fewer and fewer people are using the ticket counters, and SNCB says it makes no sense to pay staff to help so few customers. In...

The tax gap for the introduction of hybrid vehicles is sometimes much larger in Wallonia and Brussels compared to Flanders, it was reported on Monday. In the north of the country, the tax for almost all hybrid vehicles amounts to €45.56 but in both Brussels and Wallonia, it can go as high as €4,957...

Security in the Parc du Cinquantenaire has been stepped up following the sexual assault of a woman a few days ago, the mayor of Brussels, Philippe Close, and the mayor of Etterbeek, Vincent de Wolf, announced on Monday. "It is unacceptable for women to feel insecure in the middle of the capital,”...

A wallaby escaped from its enclosure last Friday and hopped around Genk for a couple of hours before being recovered by its owner. Calls poured into the nature rescue centre in nearby Oudsbergen as the marsupial bounded past a school, down shopping streets and in and out of traffic. “Half of Genk...

A Brussels court has found in favour of five citizens and an NGO who accused the Brussels Capital Region of incorrectly measuring pollution. The region now has six months to install an air quality measuring station on a major artery in the capital, or face a fine of €300 a day. Client Earth and...

A pop-up store selling Playmobil figures and Lego in Waterloo has been causing quite a stir since it opened in September. While usually the toys wouldn’t cause too many shoppers to bat an eyelid due to them being quite popular in many other stores, these ones are a little different… Cédric Evrard,...

31 January should have been the last day of the winter sales. But due to the current coronavirus crisis, the government has extended the sales period by two weeks. For traders, it provides a glimmer of hope that the extension will allow them to shift the excess stock that is still on the shelves...

The City of Brussels has asked property developer Immobel to withdraw its building permit request for the empty Belgacom building in the Sablon, in a victory for a coalition of local businessowners, residents and cultural institutions who have been fighting its demolition. The building takes up the...

Police made almost 500 administrative arrests on Sunday as an unauthorised demonstration was held in Brussels against the coronavirus measures. Riot police were present in large numbers in the city centre and at the Atomium after several calls to demonstrate were posted on social media, largely...

Anima, the much-respected Brussels international festival of animated films, is back but in a completely different form, courtesy of the pandemic. Once it became clear that the festival (12-21 February) could not proceed normally, the organisers decided to fully embrace the difference and take...