A top councillor has fought off calls to quit over the local authority's handling of the draft Local Plan.

A Kent council is in the process of applying for city status for a fourth time, but councillors have voiced their concerns over the bid.

Scores of asylum seekers have been stopped off the Kent coast while ferry crews came across a boat in difficulties off Calais

A tribute to an MP killed in a stabbing will be included on a White Cliffs memorial to the 'forces sweetheart' which he campaigned for.

A disused golf club will continue to be used as a storage depot despite a wave of opposition saw more than 100 people oppose the application.

Tributes have been paid to an MP who was killed at his surgery and campaigning in a Kent council by-election has been suspended as a mark of respect.

The area of Kent where Universal Credit claims rose the most might surprise some, while questions have been asked about the PM's luxury holiday.

One of the leading figures at a Kent council is set to leave his role – as a bullying scandal engulfs the top of the authority.

Kent County Council has announced that eligible children will be able to receive benefits-related school meal vouchers.

Household waste from a block of flats is being left to fester at overflowing bin stores consistently missed from weekly collections, says a resident.

A council policy has been officially named after a homeless man who took his own life rather than leave his pets.

The Prime Minister has stepped in to sort out a squabble between two of his most senior ministers.

The head of Southern Water has confirmed "heads rolled" after colossal and deliberate sewage spills in Kent.

Tributes have been paid to a popular councillor who has died after a long illness.

Road repairs must focus on residential and rural streets says the AA, as councils face £400m pothole blackhole.

A council has been accused of allowing a culture of bullying in a damning report.

Climate activists have once again blocked the M25 in what is there 13th action.

A former Debenhams store is being eyed up as part of a council's town centre regeneration plans after being awarded government funding.

The controversial process of extracting gas from rocks buried deep beneath the earth's surface could help solve the energy crisis, says a Kent MP.

As much as £4 million is to be spent re-cladding three high-rise residential blocks in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy.