Amsterdam’s long-awaited plans to diminish its red-light district and establish a legal alternative "erotic center" continue to face pushback from sex workers, bartenders and entrepreneurs. City ...

It’s the latest in a long line of efforts to tame the neighborhood. It’s been just over four years since Femke Halsema, Amsterdam’s first female mayor, began in earnest her campaign to overhaul the ...

The mayor wants to improve the neighborhood for residents, but sex workers oppose measures recently put in place. Now the city is looking to set up legal prostitution elsewhere. By Claire Moses ...

Prostitution is legal in designated areas with a license in the capital of the Netherlands. Amsterdam authorities have announced their new scheme to move the notorious Red Light District to a ...

Amsterdam will ban visitors to the city's infamous Red-Light district from smoking marijuana and limit alcohol sales in the area starting in mid-May in response to complaints from local residents ...

In a meeting hall in the south of the city, hundreds of angry locals who do not want a “mega brothel” on their doorstep found themselves on the same side as sex workers who want to stay in their red ...

As part of an ongoing effort to make the city more livable for locals, officials in Amsterdam have unveiled a new proposed location for its famed red light district. The new location will be Europa ...

A murdered Dutch prostitute is haunting Amsterdam’s famed Red Light District from beyond the grave — pleading with passers-by for help finding her killer. Bernadett “Betty” Szabó, 19, was a new mother ...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Amsterdam city council decided on Thursday to close about a third of the rooms used by prostitutes in the infamous red-light district in a crackdown on crime there. The city ...