A council could increase in size by 25% at the next election despite concerns it will cost taxpayers an extra £100,000 per year.

Council chiefs will scrap controversial plans to divide a city’s traffic into zones to make way for a new “bus-first strategy”.

A bid for £460 million to be spent on a new Kent hospital or much-need upgrades to existing sites has been snubbed by the government.

A Labour borough councillor has lost the local party whip after attending a screening of a controversial film about the former leader.

An MP is urging emergency planners to restrict the use of Operation Brock on the M20 to “extreme circumstances”.

The boss of Kent’s fire service has denied claims female firefighters are being forced to strip down to their underwear in front of male colleagues.

Labour members in tKent have urged London Mayor Saidq Khan to pause on his ULEZ expansion plans over fears they could lose supporters.

The number of drug related deaths in Kent has risen sharply and the Taliban stopping opium production could be the reason why.

Refuse workers have told councillors how their rubbish is “piling up” too, but their wages leave them struggling to put food on the table.

Queues are forming outside Dover as the port braces itself for a weekend of travel chaos as schools break up for the holidays.

Statistics from Kent Police have revealed a decline in the number of reports of anti-social behaviour over the last year.

We visited the town which has backed the winner of the last 16 general elections to see what the next government could look like.

Ever since the pandemic, protesters have been waving yellow placards in a number of Kent towns. But who are these “rebels on roundabouts”?

Two Labour candidates have been put forward to take on the incumbent Tory MPs in one part of Kent.

A potential way forward for Dungeness B Power Station is emerging, a government minister has said during a visit to the site.

A council has agreed to pay an extra £1.2million to extend its current waste collection service ahead of refuse workers going on strike.

Residents of one Kent borough have already learned they’ll face another council tax hike next year.

A council aiming for zero carbon by 2030 is yet to put recycling bins in its own offices four years after declaring a climate emergency.

Bin workers have vowed to push on with strikes for another four weeks as a council refuses to budge and rubbish overflows from homes.

A Kent council wants disposable vapes outlawed over concerns for the environment and the danger they pose to children.