German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservatives on Monday revelled in a regional election win even as their national coalition partners had to digest another disappointing performance.
The CDU has taken victory in Rhineland-Palatinate, ensuring they will lead the state's next government and ousting a state-wide traffic light coalition led by the SPD.
Two parties are neck and neck ahead of Sunday’s state election in Germany’s most famous wine region. With education, infrastructure and immigration on the agenda, the outcome in Rhineland‑Palatinate could reshape politics far beyond Mainz.
Christmas is a time when Germany's south-west really shines. The region's Christmas markets, or 'Weihnachtsmärkte', are one of the highlights of the festive season.
The state of Rhineland-Palatinate is known for its beautiful landscapes, wine, and a dialect even Germans themselves struggle to understand. We break down the lingo you'll need to understand the natives.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) was in crisis mode Monday after suffering heavy losses in two regional polls, seen as a rebuke of its pandemic management six months before a general election.
German police said Friday they had busted a
network hosting so-called Darknet platforms illegally trading drugs, stolen
data and child pornography online on servers hidden in a former NATO bunker.
Police in the southwest of the country on Monday reported that they seized nearly 50,000 tabs of LSD. Investigators say the haul is the largest in the country's history.
When police in western Germany stopped a car which was swerving across the road on Monday, they couldn't believe their eyes at the sight of the driver.
Viewers of German TV news bulletins in recent weeks have been bombarded with news about state elections in Saxony-Anhalt, Baden-Württemberg and Rheinland-Palatinate on March 13th. But why?
German federal police are checking all trains crossing into the country from France, a spokesman said on Saturday, while officers in border areas are on high alert.
Lawyers acting for a German doctor who was jailed for three-and-a-half years after he took 35,000 intimate photos of patients on a secret camera are calling for his sentenced to be revised.
As part of our summer tour of Germany's UNESCO World Heritage sites, we take a look at the majestic castles and palaces along the wine-making Rhine River valley region.
A German artist is celebrating what would have been Karl Marx's 195th birthday by unveiling 500 gnome-like statues of him in his home town. He wants to provoke people into thinking about the philosopher again.
A three-week-old baby who was snatched from her pram as her mother was walking down the road in the Czech Republic last week has been found in Germany. A man and three women have been arrested.
German police arrested a 55-year-old woman on Saturday evening on suspicion of killing her two-year-old granddaughter by cutting her throat, after the girl’s parents left her with her grandparents.
Scientists want to study samples of the world’s oldest wine, currently on display at the Historical Museum of the Palatinate in the western German city of Speyer. There’s just one problem: everyone’s afraid to open the bottle.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's party risks losing power in its wealthy heartland for the first time in half a century in a crucial state election Sunday held in the shadow of the Japan nuclear crisis.
A drunk man at the Kaiserslautern train station sounded a fire alarm Wednesday in hopes that fire fighters would rescue his beer, police reported. He is now under investigation for the misuse of emergency services.
Two Bundeswehr soldiers are dead and four injured after an accident at a training area in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, authorities said late Monday.
Some 500 residents in the small town of Becherbach in southwestern Germany have been told to evacuate their homes after highly explosive materials were found in a barn, a police spokesman said on Saturday.
A geothermal power plant is “very likely” the cause of several small earthquakes near the Rhineland-Palatinate city of Landau, a state report revealed Wednesday.
An alleged serial rapist admitted before a Düsseldorf court on Monday to having committed more than 1,000 sex offences over two decades, usually luring his victims by faking a disability.
A former student is suspected of stabbing a teacher to death at a vocational school in Ludwigshafen on Thursday, but the police said a quick evacuation of the facility likely avoided a wider bloodbath.
