The state of Saxony in eastern Germany plans to send more police officers to the regions along the borders with the Czech Republic and Poland to curb an increase in people smuggling.
The eastern German state of Saxony may have ordered tough restrictions on the unvaccinated to push them to get the Covid-19 jab, but shop assistant Sabine Lonnatzsch, 59, is unmoved.
The eastern state of Saxony on Friday announced new restrictions for people who have not been vaccinated against Covid-19 or recovered from the disease, as the country grapples with a dramatic surge in infections.
The east German state of Saxony avoided the worst of the first wave of the pandemic back in March, but this time around cases have exploded there. Why has that happened? Here are a few theories.
The eastern German state of Saxony will impose drastic measures shuttering schools, kindergartens and most shops to curb transmission, after it became the worst-hit coronavirus hotspot
in the country.
Hospitals in the eastern German state of Saxony will
take on at least six Italian coronavirus patients who are unable to receive treatment in their own country, state premier Michael Kretschmer said.
German police said they were investigating after a man dressed as Adolf Hitler rode around a weekend festival in a motorbike sidecar, although he provoked more amusement than outrage.
The AfD is undoubtedly stronger following the Saxony and Brandenburg elections. But it will be shunned by other parties when it comes to forming state governments. What does it all mean?
In Saxony, the AfD (Alternative for Germany) almost tripled its numbers from 2014, and doubled them in Brandenburg. But CDU and SPD want nothing to do with the right-wing populists in forming the government.
Germany's far-right AfD party surged to new strengths in elections for two eastern states on Sunday, exit polls
said, reflecting anger over Chancellor Angela Merkel's migrant policy and a wealth gap 30 years after the Berlin Wall fell.
A police report highlights new evidence that the hunting down of foreigners - which was disputed - did take place in Chemnitz in eastern Germany a year ago.
The Saxony state elections, where the AfD is expected to make big gains, take place a year after anti-foreigner protests broke out in Chemnitz. The Local found out how the city is trying to recover.
Police have launched a probe after an explosion took place in front of an Alternative for Germany (AfD) party office in the eastern German city of Döbeln.
The Monday arrests of seven alleged right-wing terrorists once again cast an uncomfortable spotlight on extremism in on the eastern German state of Saxony, where Chemnitz is located and which is a stronghold of the far-party AfD.
Saxony's Minister President Michael Kretschmer on Wednesday defended the work of the police during riots in Chemnitz and acknowledged they were understaffed.
An incident involving a TV camera crew, the Dresden police and an off-duty officer demonstrating with the anti-Islam Pegida movement is threatening to cause a major scandal in an eastern state dogged by its links to the far-right.
On February 1st, the city council in Freiberg, Saxony, plans to vote on whether or not to ban refugees from moving to the town for the next two years. The city says it can't fulfil it's educational duties to any more children.
Saxony court officials have decided this week that a Niedersdorf man can now legally sell his miniature gallow souvenirs, despite the fact they have reservations for Angela Merkel and her colleague Sigmar Gabriel on them.
