Netherlands unions have recently been flexing their muscles in a big way—taking advantage of a situation in which, like many another European nation, Holland is caught between an expanding ...

Any child in Holland will shudder at the thought of a leak in the dike! . . . That little hole ... But Americans visiting The Netherlands invariably asked to see the place where the little ...

Marken is a colorful and historic fishing village located in the Netherlands ... dikes and drainage systems to enable agriculture and livestock farming. A century later, Count William IV of ...

which constructed dikes and a drainage system, making agriculture and livestock farming possible. A century later, the monks were expelled by Count William IV of Holland, leading to the island's ...

Several flood plains were also underwater Tuesday in the eastern Netherlands. Rivers surged, causing localized flooding, and some temporary dikes were being built with large sandbags. The various ...