German officials are on tenterhooks this month as they wait to learn the fate of a bid to attain Unesco World Heritage status for historical Jewish sites in Erfurt, the capital of the eastern state of Thuringia.
A further person has been arrested in connection with a blood doping network based in the German city of Erfurt, the state prosecutor in Munich confirmed on Wednesday.
On April 26th 2002 a 19-year-old took a gun into a high school in the eastern German town of Erfurt and shot 16 people dead. The event was the first of its kind in Germany and the impact was immense.
Outside of Berlin there are only two mosques in the whole of the former East Germany. The populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) are trying to scupper plans for a new one in Erfurt, state capital of Thuringia.
In the tug-of-war between federal and local government over who should bear the costs of housing refugees, the states and communities are demanding a meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel.
City administrators in Thuringia's state capital Erfurt have proposed housing refugees in accommodation currently used by members of the Landtag (state parliament).
Thuringia officially has a Linke (The Left) politician as minister-president after Bodo Ramelow was sworn in on Friday to lead the red-red-green coalition.
25 years ago today, just weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall, hundreds of ordinary people stormed into Stasi offices in Erfurt to stop the repressive secret police destroying the records it kept on East Germans.
The path is clear for the far-left party, Die Linke, to lead a German state for the first time, after its future coalition partners voted in favour of forming a government in the eastern state of Thuringia.
Police are investigating a football fan who allegedly made the Hitler salute at the former Buchenwald concentration camp in central Germany on Saturday.
Get The Local flavour of Germany with our series offering an insider's take on life in his or her adopted hometown. This week, Karthik Subramanian takes us to Erfurt.
German criminal police who used hidden cameras for 18 months to try to find a toilet paper thief in their own office were probably breaking the law, it has emerged.
Shift workers in the public sector have no right to public holidays if they are scheduled to work - they must take a holiday day if they want to have the time off, a German labour court ruled on Tuesday.
People working for religious institutions have the right to go on strike - but only under certain conditions, the German federal labour court said on Tuesday, in a ruling that affects nearly 1.3 million people.
Germany's first national weapons register should be online at the start of next year to provide information about the six million legally-held guns in the country, authorities said on Tuesday.
Employers in Germany can demand that sick employees provide a doctor's note from the first day they call in sick, a state labour court ruled on Wednesday. Critics voiced concern that bosses could abuse the new power.
Ten years after Germany’s worst school shooting, in which a former pupil killed 16 people before committing suicide, politicians are set to lay the foundations for a national gun-owners’ register.
