Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema has halted work on the city’s proposed erotic centre near the Zuidas business district, pushing ...

The Mayor of Amsterdam wants to legalize and regulate the sale, possession and use of cocaine. In an interview with Dutch newspaper Financieele Dagblad, Mayor Femke Halsema very strongly voiced her ...

June 28 (UPI) --Amsterdam's city council chose former political leader Femke Halsema to be mayor, making her the first woman to hold the position in the Dutch city's history. More than 100 people ...

In a meeting hall in the south of the city, hundreds of angry locals who do not want a “mega brothel” on their doorstep found themselves on the same side as sex workers who want to stay in their red ...

AMSTERDAM (AP) — Speaking at an event marking Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, Mayor Femke Halsema said that civil servants in Amsterdam played an active role in the murder of some thousands of ...

It’s a Saturday night in January and De Wallen, better known as Amsterdam’s red light district, is bustling. Groups of people stroll past souvenir shops, cafés, red-lit windows and sex shops. There’s ...

The Mayor of Amsterdam has given a “hero’s medal” to an English tourist who chased a knifeman through busy alleys and pinned him to the ground, bringing an end to his rampage. Footage shows a man, in ...

AMSTERDAM — Amsterdam’s first female mayor launched plans on Wednesday to overhaul the city’s red-light district and its window displays, in a bid to protect sex workers from gawking tourists. In what ...

AMSTERDAM — The mayor of Amsterdam apologized Thursday for the role the Dutch capital played in the persecution of its Jewish citizens during World War II, saying the government at the time “let its ...

Amsterdam’s first female mayor is rethinking its centuries-old red-light district. The Wallen district sits in the oldest part of the city and at its creation in the 14th century was where free women, ...