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Fewer butterflies counted than last year during annual garden butterfly count
Province of Utrecht – A lemon butterfly, peacock’s eye or small cabbage white: there are fewer butterflies fluttering through the air than last year. This is evident from the annual…
‘Residential construction forgotten in provincial nitrogen plans’
To be able to build enough homes, nitrogen space must be created, says chairman of Bouwend Nederland Arno Visser. “Natural space must of course be created for nature and farmers,…
UMC Utrecht today before the court to close the children’s heart center: what is that again?
The Netherlands currently has four centers for pediatric heart surgery, spread over five locations (Rotterdam, Groningen, Utrecht and a shared center in Leiden and Amsterdam). This care will be concentrated…
Will the fall of the cabinet lead to a standstill in Utrecht? ‘They don’t have to sit on their hands’
This concerns housing, the energy transition, issues “in the rural area”, social security, the reform of youth care, the distribution law, and public transport. For example, the theme of asylum,…
Eemnes is going to give fire volunteers priority over a home, but how often?
It is not surprising that firefighters also have to deal with the housing shortage, but it does entail an extra problem, Ploeg outlines. “In the past six months, two of…
From python to poisonous cobra: why you read more about escaped snakes
Province of Utrecht – A tarantula, a wallaby or a herd of sheep: animals regularly cause quite a stir in the region by escaping from captivity. And then you have…
Utrecht considers the shared cargo bikes a great success and wants to expand the number to 800
The municipality is now investigating what the network of these virtual hubs should look like. The idea is to have space for two shared cargo bikes at each hub and…
Peaks and troughs: this is what the waiting list for domestic help in Utrecht looks like now
In the districts concerned, care providers will focus on district-oriented recruitment. Part of the long waiting lists, not only in the municipality of Utrecht, are the staff shortages in the…
How does a sound engineer create the best concert experience? ‘It shouldn’t be too hard’
“That only makes them sing louder. The trick is for me not to turn it up, so yes, it’s definitely a matter of self-control.” Furthermore, volume is not the same…
More and more attention for Keti Koti: ‘Celebrating and commemorating is important to do’
In order to make the slavery past a more well-known subject, Jouwe started the project ‘Traces of Slavery’ in 2010. Research, meetings and city walks in Utrecht were part of…