Zaanstad

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A beggar
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Rotterdam to enforce begging ban despite European human rights concerns
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PVV leader Geert Wilders voting in the parliamentary election on 29 October 2025
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Dutch municipalities call fraudulent election claims ‘a threat to the rule of law’
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PVV leader Geert Wilders speaks to reporters after the results for the Tweede Kamer elections are announced, October 29, 2025.
Politics
Leader of Dutch far-right PVV suggests Tuesday election was rigged, but has no evidence
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Police arrest a suspect.
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Man on moped killed in collision with car in Wormerveer; Driver arrested for questioning
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Street with different homes in Gorinchem
Business
Average property values rise 5 percent to €398,000 in Netherlands
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Sunny day in Zaanse Schans
BusinessTechNature
Zaanstad approves plan to charge €17.50 entry fee to historic Zaanse Schans
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Cannabis plant with fully grown buds, ready to be harvested
Politics
Next step in cannabis experiment: Dozens of coffeeshops selling only regulated weed
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Emissions in traffic
Politics
Multiple municipalities want to ban all fuel cars in forseeable future
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Wind turbines
Politics
Noord-Holland rejects plans for wind turbines in Noorder IJ, Amsterdam
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Modern apartments building during sunset in Apeldoorn city
Business
Apeldoorn named healthiest city in the Netherlands; Groningen drops from 1st to 3rd
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Haarlem, Netherlands
Business
Home prices jumped over 10% in almost all of the Netherlands' 25 largest municipalities
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File photo of the Justitieel Complex Zaanstad, a prison facility in Noord-Holland. 30 May 2017
HealthCrime
Man's request to see the medical file of his son who died in prison is denied in court
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File photo of the Justitieel Complex Zaanstad, a prison facility in Noord-Holland. 30 May 2017
Crime
Guards attacked at Zaanstad prison; Three hurt
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Cannabis plant with fully grown buds, ready to be harvested
PoliticsBusiness
Next step in cannabis experiment: 10 municipalities selling regulated and tolerated weed
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The Silodam mixed use building in Amsterdam includes free market and social housing. June 2015
Business
600 struggling families get €150 extra per month for 2 years in poverty reduction trial
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File photo of the Justitieel Complex Zaanstad, a prison facility in Noord-Holland. 30 May 2017
CrimeWeird
Convict mistakenly freed from Zaanstad prison a year early now considered a fugitive
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Cannabis plant with fully grown buds, ready to be harvested
Business
Amsterdam frustrated by cannabis pilot exclusion; Others happy experiment will continue
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Window cleaners at work
CrimePolitics
Zaanstad imposing permit requirement on "highly criminalized" window cleaning sector
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A small group of people gathered at the Ter Apel asylum seeker reception center in November 2014
Politics
Municipalities have major backlogs in housing refugees
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A bag of cannabis on top of Amsterdam logo
PoliticsBusiness
Amsterdam wants one of its city districts to join national cannabis cultivation trial
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Jail bars
Crime
Four prisoners found dead in Zaanstad prison last month
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Police officers
HealthCrime
Record number of reports about problems caused by "disturbed" persons
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Undated photo of the emergency asylum center on Baanstee-Noord in Purmerend
CrimePolitics
Dutch municipalities increasingly setting demands for which asylum seekers they take in
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A sign calling for an end to the use of blackface to portray Zwarte Piet. 16 November 2019
PoliticsCultureEntertainment
Eggs thrown at Zwarte Piet protestors in Westzaan