A council-led scheme offering drivers free parking one day a week has been scrapped amid financial troubles.

A Kent council’s headquarters could be turned into social housing if the authority relocates to a new multi-million-pound base.

Council bosses are looking for a “large” registered home to house unaccompanied asylum-seeking children.

Councils in Kent have failed to publish annual accounts detailing how they have spent hundreds of millions of pounds of public money.

Building work to convert long-deserted office space into flats is expected to go out to tender by the end of this year.

The council is keeping tightlipped about the progress of ambitious plans to turn part of a shopping mall into a healthy living centre.

The PM probably expected a better reaction to delaying net zero targets, but Paul Francis says voters can be unforgiving over U-turns on key policies.

An attempt to reverse a council’s support for a large ragstone quarry extension across an area of Ancient Woodland has been defeated – by one vote.

Singer Feargal Sharkey and comedian Paul Whitehouse were among the famous faces at a rally against sewage spills on the county’s coastline.

An XL Bully owner is attending a protest in the capital in a bid to save her daughter’s best friend and spread awareness about the ‘banned’ breed.

A bid challenging the legality of the government’s decision to reopen Manston Airport has been thrown out by a High Court judge.

Councillors are being offered counselling for abuse they receive going about their daily duties.

A council’s planning policy is being questioned after a new house was allowed to go ahead despite it clearly breaching the rules.

A major civic honour bestowed on the Royal Navy is threatened to be overshadowed by a row over “disrespect” for the Armed Forces.

The Lib Dems have chosen a local businessman and councillor to fight one of the key seats in the next General Election.

Members of Kent’s Green council could be open to the possibility of new nuclear power generation, despite their party’s national policy against it.

Homes could be built on the grounds of a former councillor’s manor house after the site appeared on a list of plots considered ripe for housing.

An application for 38 homes was thrown out but a building scheme for neighbouring land has been accepted.

The council is being urged to get tough with boy racers by introducing new punishments - including £1,000 fines.

KCC is to develop the use of AI to trap bad drivers, track staff departures and send up drones, new policy papers have revealed.