It’s the latest in a long line of efforts to tame the neighborhood. It’s been just over four years since Femke Halsema, Amsterdam’s first female mayor, began in earnest her campaign to overhaul the ...

As part of an ongoing effort to make the city more livable for locals, officials in Amsterdam have unveiled a new proposed location for its famed red light district. The new location will be Europa ...

Amsterdam’s long-awaited plans to diminish its red-light district and establish a legal alternative "erotic center" continue to face pushback from sex workers, bartenders and entrepreneurs. City ...

It is 11 a.m. on a weekday in late June in Amsterdam’s De Wallen district, and a clean-up operation is underway. Street sweeping machines are collecting trash that hints at a raucous time the night ...

Moving the window brothels out of the Red Light District would be a big step in discouraging party behavior in Amsterdam. Amsterdam city officials are trying to push tourists away from the city center ...

There are going to be less of the infamous neon-lit windows. Tourists visiting Amsterdam will often find themselves—whether accidentally or on purpose—wandering through the De Wallen red light ...

A new era kicked off in Amsterdam’s Red Light District on Thursday, with a ban on smoking cannabis on the streets officially taking effect. The ban is part of a city-wide effort, pushed by Mayor Femke ...

The group is not explicitly anti-tourist, but it does view mass tourism as a problem for local communities, saying ‘when ...

As someone raised on the other side of the world, I’d always been fascinated by Amsterdam’s eccentricities, bolstered by sordid tales of the Dutch capital. From the Red Light District and its window ...

AMSTERDAM, May 25 (Reuters) - A ban on smoking marijuana on the streets of Amsterdam's red light district went into effect on Thursday, part of a push by the city's first female mayor to clean up the ...

A petition has brought debate to the Parliament in the Netherlands. Amsterdam has long been held as the model for the modern sex industry, with prostitution legalized and rebranded as part of the ...