Postal service From 1 March, non-urgent post will only be delivered two times a week by Bpost: on Monday or Tuesday and Wednesday or Thursday. The limited delivery concerns all non-priority post, publicity post and non-weekly magazines. Free public transport in Luxembourg The Grand Duchy of...

Imagine taking a pill that would monitor processes in your body and send the data digitally to your health-care professional? This straight-out-of-science-fiction device was presented at the recent Solid-States Circuit conference in San Francisco by researchers at imec. The Leuven-based nano-...

Brussels Mobility is setting loose a vehicle on the streets next month with cameras and sensors that will record damage to roads, pavements and other infrastructure. The goal is to improve efficiency of public works. The images will be delivered directly to a databank and provide a map of damage...

BNP Paribas Fortis, one of Belgium’s largest banks, is asking employees who’ve recently travelled abroad not to come into work due to concerns over the coronavirus. Any employee who’s travelled to a country or region where there’s been an outbreak of the coronavirus is being asked not to come into...

A new church is to be built on the van Meyel square in the Brussels commune of Etterbeek. The Brussels-Capital Region has awarded a building permit to the church wardens who own the plot of land where the church is to be built. A neo-gothic church used to exist in that exact same place, but it was...

If archaeology is all about discovering the past, then the Aalter-Woestijne project must rate as one of the most successful digs ever carried out in Flanders. In fields beside the Ghent-Bruges canal, archaeologists found significant traces of human activity from prehistoric times up to the 18th...

Roughly 40 neighbourhood councils have established a new umbrella committee so they can collectively fight against the city’s development plans. The Brussels-Capital Region’s Construction Master Plan is a text that establishes a legal framework for the city’s future development projects. A first...

With up to 25cm of snow registered in the southeast of Belgium, a total of nine ski centres are open for business. In addition to downhill skiing in the centres of Ovifat and Thiers des Rexhons (Spa), winter sport enthusiasts can also snowboard and snowblade. But they are advised to hit to slopes...

The Athénée Adolphe Max school in Brussels has axed its plans to organise a ski trip to Italy over concerns about the coronavirus. The primary school situated near the Ambiorix Square would normally have taken 90 of its pupils on a ski trip to northern Italy this Saturday. But those plans have now...

According to national insurance agency Inami, the number of women being reimbursed for breastfeeding breaks at work rose by 78% between 2013 and 2018. Women are much more likely now to invoke their right to official breaks at work, according to the agency. No, she’s not taking the baby to work...