Red River Gorge National Geological Area, a unique natural area in Daniel Boone National Forest, attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors a year to east-central Kentucky. They come to hike its demanding trails, fish in its pristine streams, camp, rock climb, or just take in the rugged beauty of its sandstone cliffs, rock shelters, waterfalls…
Historic preservation in Northern Kentucky’s river cities will be celebrated this Wednesday during the 2019 River Cities Excellence in Preservation Awards ceremony. The ceremony will be held at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at 1001 Monmouth St., a building recently restored by Newport Millennium Housing Corp. and one of this year’s award winners. May is National Preservation Month,…
On a rainy night in Northern Kentucky, the Florence Freedom, presented by Titan Mechanical Solutions, waited out an hour and a half rain delay to beat the River City Rascals, 3-1, in the rubber-match of their mid-week series at UC Health Stadium. The Freedom (4-2) started the scoring in the bottom of the fourth, after…
In celebration of National Drinking Water Week, observed by water utilities May 5 through May 11 with the theme Protect the Source, Kentucky American Water awarded a 2019 American Water Environmental Grant in the amount of $4,975 to the Licking River Watershed Watch. The environmental grant program provides funds to community-based environmental projects that…
With warmer weather here, more outdoor activities are taking place. State officials are offering some safety tips to help Kentuckians enjoy the many rivers, lakes and creeks in which to boat, fish, swim, canoe or otherwise enjoy water resources. The Kentucky Division of Water and the Department for Public Health say despite many water quality improvements,…
By Mark Hansel NKyTribune managing editor The easternmost tip of Seventh Street was renamed Battelle Lane in a ceremony at the Covington Ladies Home Friday afternoon. The event included a proclamation from Covington Mayor Joseph U. Meyer and the unveiling of a street sign recognizing the name change. The Covington Ladies Home was founded by…
The Kentucky Transportation (KYTC) is in the end stages of testing the state’s new driver’s license system to introduce new, more secure card versions that meet federal standards in the coming months. A pilot of the new system will begin this spring in Circuit Court Clerk Office locations in Woodford and Franklin counties. New licenses…
The Thomas More University Biology Field Station will celebrate Earth Day with an unveiling of their new river mural on Saturday, April 13 from 2 – 7 p.m. The mural, created by artist Jon-Paul Passalacqua, will be a vibrant addition to the STEM Outreach Center, which opened in the fall. Passalacqua began producing the mural…
The pilot rollout of Kentucky’s new, secure driver’s licenses, spearheaded by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, is scheduled to begin in early April in Franklin and Woodford counties. A phased, county-by-county rollout extending to the remaining 118 counties will begin two to three weeks later, and conclude within a two-month period. “We only get to launch…
The Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission (ORSANCO) has authorized its Pollution Control Standards (PCS) Committee to proceed with a public comment period on the Committee’s recommended changes to the Pollution Control Standards, and to invite public review and comment on the proposed modification. This action came as a result of its board meeting on February…
Parks and Facilities Supervisor Brad Schwenke picked up a 10-lb. sledgehammer and gave the steel stanchion three hard blows. It wasn’t enough. The 2,000-lb. A-shaped piece of frame – the fifth of six that form the spine of the Madison Overlook floodgate – was wedged at an awkward angle between the two stubby posts that…
Football fans across the country are gearing up to celebrate America’s most-watched sporting event, Super Bowl LIII, on Sunday, Feb. 3. For many, the Super Bowl celebration will include drinking alcohol, so the Kentucky Office of Highway Safety (KOHS) is teaming with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) for a Fans Don’t Let Fans…
Each year, thousands of Sandhill Cranes make Barren River Lake a stop on their journey back home. Join Barren River Lake State Resort Park during its Nature Watch Weekend Jan. 23-27 to get up close to these beautiful cranes as they migrate through the area. Participants can register for one of two trips. The…
The Kentucky Office of Highway Safety (KOHS) Wednesday honored more than 200 law enforcement officers from 175 agencies across the Commonwealth for their efforts to target impaired drivers. The 2018 Governor’s Impaired Driving Enforcement Awards ceremony was held at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Lexington. Awards were presented to officers with the most impaired-driving arrests…
NKyTribune staff Shoppers in MainStrasse Village will be able to park in the new RiverHaus Apartments garage during daytime hours this Friday and Saturday as part of a special, one-time change. As first reported in the NKyTribune, about 100 spots in the garage were made available starting Tuesday of this week as part of a…
They are present everywhere we travel — to work, school, or shopping trips in urban, rural or suburban areas. Driving Kentucky roadways you are likely to cross a small stream or river, or see one off in the distance. Kentucky waterways, important in our history, and part of our daily life, are where we escape…
NKyTribune staff The Boone County Sheriff’s office has provided details on the accident that closed KY 212 (Airport Access Road) overnight. A driver of one of the vehicles, George Moore, of Cincinnati, was transported to University Hospital with life-threatening injuries. The driver and passengers in the other vehicle suffered minor, or non-life-threatening injuries. The road was…
By Mark Hansel NKyTribune managing editor Covington Economic Development Director Tom West provided an update on city projects at Thursday’s Covington Business Council November luncheon. West told the crowd at the Madison Event Center that there are a lot of exciting things going on in the city, and he had some news on one of…
Sanitation District No. 1 has received federal and state disaster relief funds for its effective response to historically high Ohio River levels earlier this year. The District received today reimbursement from the Federal Emergency Management Association (FEMA) and the Kentucky Emergency Management Association (KEMA) for overtime labor, equipment usage and contracted labor totaling $104,971.61. …
The $875,000 reconstruction of the western entrance to Covington’s riverfront to make it safer and more accessible to pedestrians took another leap of progress today in a very visible way. Workers with Riegler Blacktop poured concrete today to form one side of the roadbed for the rebuilt Johnston Street as it turns the corner…
Boone County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched early this morning to eastbound I-275 at the Mineola Pike interchange for a FedEx tractor-trailer that had gone off the right side of the roadway and over an embankment, turning over and crushing the cab. On scene, deputies located the driver, Leroy Alexander, 44 of Lebanon, Indiana, trapped in…
In the aftermath of the Fifth Third gunman attack in downtown Cincinnati, which left four people dead, the Covington Business Council will discuss how to deal with such a tragedy at its next quarterly Advocacy Forum Friday (Oct. 26). Covington Police Department Training Sergeant Brian Bogard and Lieutenant Marcus Jordan have logged over 40 years…
