Amsterdam's first female mayor in the city's 700-year history says she wants to protect and reform the city's famous red light district. Mayor Femke Halsema said: "Too often now we see vulnerable ...

The police are investigating grave desecration at the Zeeburg Jewish Cemetery on Valentijnkade in Amsterdam. One or two ...

Mayor Femke Halsema apologized for the involvement of the city’s rulers in the slave trade during a nationally televised annual ceremony in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Thursday, July 1, 2021 ...

Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema publicly apologizes for the city’s active complicity in the Holocaust, acknowledging that local authorities aided Nazi efforts during World War II.

Amsterdam's mayor Femke Halsema (C) takes part in the national commemoration of the slavery past in the Oosterpark in Amsterdam, on July 1, 2021.

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 ...

Femke Halsema has said there are emergency measures in place for the entire city from this afternoon after "antisemitic" disorder surrounding a football match between Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv.

It’s been just over four years since Femke Halsema, Amsterdam’s first female mayor, began in earnest her campaign to overhaul the city’s red-light district. The infamous neighborhood has ...

The latest salvo against the city’s coffeeshops comes (yet again) from the city’s mayor, Femke Halsema, who has just unveiled her latest plan to ban tourists from the city’s cannabis cafes ...

Amsterdam’s cannabis cafés could be closing to tourists.The city’s mayor, Femke Halsema, is pursuing the move in order “to get a grip on the local soft drugs market,” according to Dutch News.

The move follows a recent survey of young tourists commissioned by Mayor Femke Halsema that revealed over half said they chose to visit the Dutch capital because they wanted to experience a ...

Attendees listen to a speech by Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema, right, during the Yom HaShoah Holocaust remembrance day at the Hollandsche Schouwburg Jewish cultural quarter in Amsterdam, on April ...