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With a week to go until the local elections, we provide a Dutch News crash course in how to vote and find your way through the jungle of local parties. Rob Jetten’s cabinet rules out emergency measures to cut fuel prices, while pressure grows to keep the Groningen gas fields open. Chip manufacturer ASML unveils plans to expand its campus in Eindhoven. The Council of State tells the government to think again on Schiphol flights. And in sport, Max Verstappen hopes to rally in Nuremberg after crashing out in Melbourne.

Ophef of the week: Anti-tourism campaigners flood Amsterdam with fake election posters (De Kanttekening)

Unique house straddling Dutch-Belgian border could be turned into pub (Omroep Brabant)

Water engineers uncover 4,000-year-old burial mound in Drenthe (RTV Drenthe)

Local election news

Housing and safety main issues in local election: poll

Local election watch: city updates, voting aids and debates

Local elections: who can vote and what are the issues?

Other news

Netherlands sends air defence frigate to eastern Mediterranean

Middle East war impact on Dutch economy very uncertain: CPB

Dutch to release one-fifth of their oil reserves as pump prices rise

Motorists heading over the border to Belgium to save on fuel

ASML gets green light for new campus creating 20,000 jobs

Council of State tears up Schiphol flight limit plan

A27 expansion near Utrecht falls foul of nitrogen emissions limits

Former NCTV worker found not guilty of spying for Morocco

Sport

Jeroen Kampschreur wins first Dutch gold medal of Paralympics

Max Verstappen to drive “bucket list” 24-hour race at Nürburgring

Ajax draw Grim conclusion as PSV close in on Eredivisie title