Kent County Council is pressing for more funding from the Home Office for urgent accommodation for young asylum seekers.

A former golf course earmarked for a new park is home to great crested newts and 34 species of birds.

An MP is supporting a bill that would ramp up fines on overrunning roadworks to more than £12,000 a day.

A public consultation has begun on the future of Kent County Council windmills around the county.

A local government chief has echoed warnings sounded by Kent that councils are at financial breaking point.

A Kent MP has said migration figures are ‘too high’ despite what she claimed was some of the ‘strongest action ever” taken by her government.

An MP is being investigated by the Labour party for liking a controversial tweet by a comedy writer which it claims is anti-Semitic.

A council is looking to recoup £800,000 by cracking down on those who claim single person discounts, when they no longer live alone.

Members of the public have a chance to quiz the two most powerful men in Medway.

A council is offering lucrative interest-free loans in bid to help businesses grow and take on more workers.

As Crime Commissioner Matthew Scott prepares to stand for re-election, he explains how a landslide election defeat led to him making history in Kent.

Local authorities have been warned to be on ‘red alert' after hackers gained access to the county council’s children's department.

A county councillor has sparked fury by suggesting he’d close even more than the four tips already under threat from swingeing cuts.

A council leader says London boroughs are “exasperating” temporary housing pressures and calls from them to stop moving their homeless into the area.

One topic guaranteed to set our letters pages abuzz is the so-called ‘war on motorists’ – but has it all been “manufactured” for political purposes?

“Vile” Russian trolls are believed to have bombarded a council with horrific abuse on social media while it celebrated helping displaced Ukrainians.

Some 3,000 tons of recyclable waste could not be processed because residents had put the wrong things into the bags - costing taxpayers £57,000.

Two Conservative members at Kent County Council have been suspended for defying the party on housing policy.

A member of parliament has released his latest book whose main character displays the working-class qualities of its author.

He’s saved motorists hundreds of millions of pounds – now Kent’s Howard Cox is vowing to rip up ULEZ if he succeeds at the polls next year.