A council’s head of enforcement is calling for tough Singapore-inspired fixed penalty notices, where repeat litter louts are fined £5,000.

More than £600,000 has been offered to people applying for jobs with in Kent County Council.

More CCTV, a ban on street drinking and measures encouraging bars to close earlier are being considered by one council.

A council's campaign to encourage people to get the jab features local residents and workers. We spoke to one of its stars.

The next step has been taken in a council's plans to rejuvenate a leisure complex, ahead of a food hall opening in Autumn.

People say they are fed up with the state of grass verges two months after a no mow campaign ended.

A plan has been unveiled to build homes close to the site of a new secondary school, in an area popular with developers.

A list of candidates vying to become councillors in two by-elections has been revealed.

A councillor says young people's lives could be at risk if they are housed in an area which has high levels of crime.

Our political editor Paul Francis takes a look at all the big news from national and local politics this week.

The government has paid more than £1 million in five months on surveillance aircraft to stop asylum seekers reaching Kent.

A long-standing Kent Conservative has quit the party after two decades, saying that he cannot support the direction the party is heading.

Police are facing pressure to take action over a town centre fight more than three weeks ago.

Homeless charities are calling for extra government funding ahead of winter to avoid a surge in rough sleeping and potential tragedy on the streets.

A local authority is searching for a contractor to complete work to convert an office block into temporary flats for homeless families.

A council leader has challenged colleagues to set political differences aside and join him in a race to take their town to the top.

New homes designed to support people with additional needs have been completed by a council as part of its programme to build more social housing.

A Kent MP has taken to Instagram to reveal she is engaged after being proposed to her on birthday.

The leader of a local authority says a meeting of the full council has been cancelled "to help keep everyone safe" as Covid cases soar.

Our political editor Paul Francis takes a look at all the big news from national and local politics this week.