From serving the public to housing it

Two Maidstone sites could provide over 650 homes, plus a ward closure postponed, international trains back on the agenda, Margate goes driverless and Frodo visits Thanet

“Their ambition was ridiculous”

What we asked Kevin Ligget and Phil Gomm, formerly of the Kent Institute of Art and Design at Rochester.

Kent's council reorganisation has entered its legal action era

Kent County Council is taking the government to court over plans to abolish it, even as ministers reconsider whether those plans should go ahead at all

The £15.5m cost of clearing up Kent's illegal rubbish

Plus Medway’s police complaint, a £13.7m roundabout overspend, cockroaches at Bluewater and a £5m castle

Kent and France want to become a geopark

A shared geological history, plus £700,000 spent on a cancelled waste facility and Kent’s new town that still doesn’t exist

How not to build 660 homes

Plus the far right return to Dover, Operation Brock’s £1.4m bill, ghost plates at Dartford, and another Kent water failure

"Take every opportunity you can and make the most of it”

What we asked Montgomery Tunnicliff, Regimental Sergeant Major with the Combined Cadet Force

Can the Lower Thames Crossing really be Britain’s greenest road?

Plus the beavers that waited 23 years for freedom

Southern Water keeps being fined for polluting Kent. Has anything actually changed?

Plus 122 councillor complaints, a bleak housing picture, recycled clothing in potholes and more from across Kent

“I just happened to have a pocket full of songs”

What we asked musician Rob Shepard about his upcoming musical, Franz & Marie

What happens to the Grand Burstin now?

The uncertain future of a Folkestone landmark, plus electoral hubris and an unexpected bug invasion

Kent's bison finally get their bridges

Plus an inaccessible rail footbridge, falling university rankings, Danny Dyer on polluted water and whales in the Thames