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An extra £1.5m is needed to support young asylum seeker children who have turned 18 but remain the responsibility of the authority.
Jeremy Corbyn has lashed out at what he said was a shambolic rehearsal of plans for a former airport to be used as an emergency lorry park.
A dress rehearsal to test a plan to use the Manston airport site as an emergency lorry park has been branded an act of "extraordinary incompetence".
The European Commission is being urged to investigate the government over the £13.8m contract with a company to provide ferries to Ostend post-Brexit.
Questions have been asked about the role of a company boss awarded a contract to provide ferries from Kent in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
A trial of a government plan to use a former airport site to hold lorries in the event of disruption at the channel ports will be held on Monday.
The Home Secretary is under fire after appearing to suggest many of those seeking to get to the UK from France were not genuine asylum seekers.
The jury in the election expenses trial of a Tory MP and one of his top campaigners will resume their deliberations today.
It was the year dominated by one key issue: Brexit. Our political reporter looks at the political world in 2018.
Paddy Ashdown, the late former Liberal Democrat leader, has been described as a "warm and inspirational human being" by party members in the county.
Kent Police has confirmed officers are not being permitted to book any leave after the deadline date for Brexit next March - but only for a month.
EU officials have set out measures the bloc will take if Britain leaves the EU without a deal.
There are just 100 days until the UK leaves the European Union but there is confusion over how Kent could be affected if Britain leaves with no deal.
The government says 3,500 troops are to be placed on standby as part of Brexit emergency plans.
Nearly 3,000 foreign lorries are avoiding paying charges at the Dartford Crossing every week, according to newly uncovered figures.
A second senior Kent Tory MP says Parliament should be able to say what option for leaving the EU it wants if Theresa May’s Brexit deal is rejected.
All Brexit options should be on the table - including 'No Deal - if Parliament votes against the PM's deal, says a Kent MP
Kent MP Craig Mackinlay will have to wait until the new year to learn his fate in his election expenses trial.
The Prime Minister has seen off a vote of confidence in her leadership after criticism about her handling of Brexit.
Our political editor Paul Francis has provided expert analysis on the upcoming vote of confidence in Prime Minister Theresa May.