Heavy snowfall is causing severe disruption for drivers across northern Belgium on Friday night. West and East Flanders and Antwerp province were first to be covered in a blanket of slow that extended to the entire region in the course of the afternoon.

Drivers on the Ostend Brussels motorway were in for a surprise this week when a base jumper took off from the new KBC Artevelde Tower that is being constructed next to the motorway.

Fashion designer Stijn Helsen got quite a challenge: Olympic outfits that are stylish, with a note of surrealism, and all in the colours of the Belgian tricolor.

It’s been a dreadful week for employment in Flanders. 1200 jobs have now gone. VRT News spoke with Paul Soete of the employers’ federation Agoria.

Thursday night was the coldest night of the cold snap so far. Temperatures in Brussels plummeted to -10° C while in the High Fens in eastern Belgium lows of -17 were recorded. At Ostend on the coast a low of -8° C was measured.

Two people were injured during a hold-up on a clothes shop in the main shopping area of downtown Ghent on Thursday evening. A Cube store was the target of the attack that happened shortly before closing.

Several key works by leading Flemish artists will soon be on show in exhibitions in Florida, Mexico City and Tokyo. The works come from the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp that is closed until refurbishments are complete in 2017.

Madonna's new video clip is being screened on big screens in Belgian railway stations all next week. The video of the American singer's song "Give me all your luvin" premiered in the US on Thursday night and will be on show in eleven Belgian stations starting Friday afternoon.

Despite Thursday's news that steel wire manufacturer Bekaert is shedding a quarter of its workforce in Belgium the morning shift at the Aalter plant set to work as usual at 6AM.

The father-in-law and brother-in-law of the lord of the castle in Wingene have been released from custody. The gun in the father-in-law's possession did not correspond with the spent cartridge found in the hall of the castle.

Belgian diplomats are in Brussels for the Diplomatic Days, an opportunity for Belgium's brand new Premier Elio Di Rupo to set out the country's foreign policy priorities to the guys and lasses who have been in the forefront of explaining the country's political woes.

A serial rapist has been sentenced to 8 years in gaol. CCTV footage from a housing block's hall camera allowed police to identify the man one of whose victims lives in this block.

The Red Cross is one of the organisations that have opened a new reception centre for homeless people in Brussels. With lows of minus 8 degrees a place to sleep indoors is no luxury.

It's official: Belgium is once again in an economic recession. Belgium's central bank, the National Bank, recorded negative growth during the past two quarters.

As at the beginning of every month, 1 February brings with it a number of changes that will affect us in our everyday lives.

For the first time since August 2010 Flemish unemployment figures are up once again. The increase is being attributed to the poor performance of the Belgian economy and a change in the way that the figures are managed.

Steel wire manufacturer Bekaert is axing 600 jobs at its Belgian plants. In all 1,250 jobs are to go. The company's Belgian workforce is being cut by a quarter.

The Belgian Public Health Ministry is advising women in Belgium who received breast implants produced by France's PIP Company to have them removed as a precaution. The French implants are made of industrial grade silicones and may leak.

One of the occupants of a castle in the West Flemish municipality of Ruiselede discovered a cartouche from a 9mm gun and a pool of blood on Tuesday.

The packaging company Crown Crown Cork is to close its factory in the Antwerp municipality of Deurne with the loss of 300 jobs.