The Verdi trade union on Friday announced that strikes would take place at the state of North Rhine-Westphalia's two biggest airports starting Sunday into Monday. The walkouts at Cologne-Bonn and ...

Charlotte Merz, the wife of the front-runner to become Germany's next chancellor, said on Friday she hardly sees her husband ...

Germany's Ruhr area used to be a Social Democrat stronghold, but the right-wing AfD party has risen to popularity amid the region's economic decline. In one city — Gelsenkirchen — individuals are ...

Small and medium-sized firms, many of them global market leaders, are responsible for more than half the area’s jobs ...

Public transport strikes across parts of Germany, spring-like temperatures expected after freeze, pre-election CSD march ...

In Bochum, a town in the German industrial Ruhr valley, cheesemonger Heike Wischnewski said she was contemplating casting her ...