The public is being warned that unpopular decisions will have to be made as a council manages the fallout of a decision to strip it of £170 million.

A 94-year-old who was tired of waiting for her bin to be collected amid a strike by refuse workers has wheeled it to the tip herself.

Kent and Medway could become a "regional powerhouse" with an elected mayor under devolution plans being promoted by the county council's Tory leader.

Delays at the Port of Dover could reach more than two and a half hours amid the summer holiday rush, bosses have warned.

KCC is to ask London’s mayor to reverse his decision to extend the emission zone saying it will “disproportionately” impact those on low incomes.

A parish council has demanded a supermarket branch tackles shoplifters after it says stolen eggs were used in vandalism attacks in a village.

A council transport boss has vowed the county’s ‘car killer’ potholes will be fixed – but just in time for winter.

Tributes have been paid to the county’s former education chief, Leyland Ridings, who has died aged 85.

Councillors at one local authority have declined the opportunity to give themselves a pay rise and have frozen their own allowances.

As bin strikes enter a second week, it has emerged union bosses are in conflict with their own employees over pay, sparking accusations of hypocrisy.

All areas of the NHS in Kent are set to be “significantly impacted” as junior doctors in England begin a five-day walkout – their longest strike yet.

Services are facing the axe as Kent County Council work to make £86m in savings.

It has been confirmed £170m of funding is to be withdrawn from a council after the government lost faith in its ability to deliver a major project.

We speak to the new chairman of Kent County Council as he starts his 12 month reign.

“Monstrous” hoardings put up around a now-cancelled housing scheme have made a seafront look like Belfast during The Troubles, it has been claimed.

Three towns are seeing rubbish pile up on the streets as refuse workers strike into their second week.

Political editor Paul Francis considers the government’s heavy-handed approach in ordering the removal of a mural from a child asylum seeker centre.

A politician has called for stricter measures to be put in place for e-scooters after a teenager was killed after he collided with a BMW.

The Immigration Minister has reportedly instructed cartoons at an asylum centre for children be whitewashed.

Thousands of homes are seeing rubbish pile up as refuse worker walk-outs reach their third day.