The northermost German state of Schleswig-Holstein has managed to get the 7-day incidence under the threshold of 50 Covid infections per 100,000 residents.
The northern German city of Flensburg is going into a tough lockdown after a huge rise in Covid-19 cases - many of them stemming from the B.1.1.7 variant that originated in the UK. What does this mean for Germany?
The northern state of Schleswig-Holstein has put together a plan for a gradual relaxation of lockdown measures that it believes could work for the whole country. Here's what it looks like.
The German Glücksatlas was published again on Tuesday and the people of Schleswig-Holstein were once again revealed to be the most content in the country. Here’s why.
Two adult boars ran into the town centre of Heide, Schleswig-Holstein, on Friday morning and injured four people, including the manager of a bank which one of them burst into.
On Sunday the state of Schleswig-Holstein will hit the voting booths for the local election, with polling predicting that the Social Democrats (SPD) could lose their power. How much do you know about Germany's northern-most state?
As every English tourist knows, Germans will do anything it takes to put their towel on the beach first. Now they've gone one further and brought their bed to the sand.
Construction on a planned tunnel under the Baltic Sea between the German island of Fehmarn and the Danish island of Lolland could be delayed by up to a year because of changes to the plans, authorities in north Germany said on Thursday.
Schleswig Holstein's exports to Russia have dropped by 31 percent, state finance minister Reinhard Meyer said in comments reported by the Hamburger Abendblatt on Tuesday.
A woman has admitted to a Lübeck court that she placed needles in meat packets in a supermarket in northern Germany, hoping to discourage them from eating mass-produced food.
A German woman who paramedics thought had died in a car crash is being treated in hospital - after a morgue employee noticed she was still breathing hours after the accident.
The authorities in the northern German city of Kiel on Wednesday hoped to determine the origin of a bag of human bones discovered on the side of the road.
The German military has said it will apologise to children in Schleswig-Holstein after an administrative error meant 1,000 children were accidentally sent leaflets advertising a career in the Bundeswehr, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
Three shipwrecks dating back centuries have emerged off northern Germany's shallow coast, offering marine archaeologists the unique chance to examine them before storms cover them up again.
German police who last year solved a murder case from 43 years ago, using modern DNA analysis found that the culprit died of natural causes - just months after giving them the crucial evidence.
Snow and freezing rain resulted in more than 80 car accidents in northern Germany, leaving three people slightly injured people, but causing no fatalities.
Hundreds gathered in the town of Mölln in Schleswig-Holstein on Friday evening to remember the victims of a deadly arson attack on a Turkish family 20 years ago which sent shock waves through newly-unified Germany.
Hundreds of Germany's dirtiest athletes gathered on the banks of the North Sea on Sunday for the Mud Olympics, where competitors squelched around to raise money for a counselling service for cancer patients.
Police have discovered a child's body on the North Sea island of Amrum - in the same playground where a missing ten-year-old, identified only as Sebastian, was last seen on Sunday evening.
