Korean boy band BTS will perform in Brussels on 1 and 2 July in one of the biggest tours of the year, event organiser Live Nation has announced. Tickets for the concerts at King Baudouin Stadium in Heysel go on sale on 24 January. The K-pop idols are returning to the stage with a new album in a 79-...

Local and regional authorities in Brussels are increasingly turning to property sales to ease financial strains and support investment programmes. In Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, for example, the municipality has unveiled plans to sell about €10 million worth of its own houses and land. Officials say that...

The Museum Pass - which grants unlimited access to 270 museums across Belgium - has seen its popularity rise, with one million passes issued since the scheme launched in 2018. The number of active Museum Pass holders throughout Belgium has now reached more than 235,000 card-holders. Together, they...

Brussels’ long anticipated Le Chat cartoon museum has been hit by another setback, with officials now saying the project is unlikely to open before 2027, reports Bruzz. The delay was confirmed in the Brussels parliament by regional minister-president Rudi Vervoort (PS), who acknowledged that the...

The long-awaited new stadium for Brussels’ famous Royale Union Saint-Gilloise (USG) football club, planned for the Bempt site in Forest, will only have 150 parking spaces, when 2,100 are needed, local officials in neighbouring Uccle have warned. For Uccle councillor Marc Cools (En Avant), relying...

A Belgian broadcaster and TV personality has taken over one of Brussels' most iconic chip shops - with plans to reopen soon. The municipality of Jette has awarded the tender to radio presenter David Antoine and entrepreneur Sébastien De Messemaeker, who will now run the Friterie du Miroir chip...

Three long-time friends are taking over a Schaerbeek cafe whose owner, Diana, was violently stabbed to death in the venue by her ex-partner in December 2024. Antoine, Antonin and Raphael, making a childhood dream come true, want to restore the former Cafe Ruya on Avenue du Diamant to its former...

Drug use and drug trafficking are on the increase in the capital, according to a recent federal police report on crime figures between 2014 and 2024. The figures also highlighted that terrorism and extremism charges and vandalism cases went down by half over the same period. Cocaine sales almost...

Belgium is famous for its scouts, who fill the country’s parks and green areas every weekend. But sometimes, especially in quiet areas, this is too much. More than 70 camps were organised in Couvin last summer and autumn, a small town in the south of Namur province near the French border, and the...

Anderlecht’s Neerpede and Meylemeersch areas are being increasingly visited by roe deer, demonstrating that parts of the Brussels region are becoming wilder, which local nature groups say shows the importance of avoiding large-scale construction projects. The first sightings of deer date back to...