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The election watchdog has been urged to take steps to ensure voting in this week’s local council ballots are not disrupted.
Claims the government’s gambling reforms do not go far enough to ensure companies play a key part in countering addiction have been rebuffed.
A Kent MP has told Parliament that people in small boats have used razor blades to delibarately damage their fingers to avoid identification.
Are voters falling out of love with the mainstream parties in favour of single issue independent candidates? Our political editor takes a look.
Kent’s crime commissioner has expressed frustration that officers who have committed serious sexual offences cannot have their pension taken away.
They were supposed to be the future but smart motorways look like becoming an expensive mistake.
We take a look at the housing dilemma facing the county in the run up to the local elections.
A former Tory councillor who was sacked over his involvement with a far right group emerged is to stand in the forthcoming council election.
Candidates for all 550 seats on local council elections are being revealed today.
Our political editor shares his thoughts on KCC's cash problems and the political paradox of Dover.
Kent County Council says it could still become insolvent if it does not act to address a rising deficit that has plunged the authority into the red.
Kent headteachers have joined calls for Ofsted reforms following the death of a colleague in Reading.
A council leader says the government should not be forcing voters to have some photo ID when they go to polling stations next month.
The Conservatives are promising to crack down on low-level crime - but can they really stop anti-social behaviour "once and for all"?
Voters will be heading to the polls in May for an unprecedented set of council elections in which more than 550 seats will be up for grabs.
We take a look at which councils are raising their tax the most to try and make ends meet
Suella Braverman was pictured laughing at a migrant settlement centre in Rwanda, but all was not quite as it seemed writes Paul Francis.
Sittingbourne and Sheppey MP Gordon Henderson has announced he will not be seeking re-election when the country next goes to the polls.
Calls for the government to retain some kind of nuclear energy production in Kent have been given a boost by the Chancellor.
The government's plans for an extension of free child care costs to help get people back to work have been welcomed by business leaders in Kent.
