City of Covington updates noise ordinance to add clarity, increase effectiveness of enforcement
The City of Covington has tweaked its noise ordinance to make it easier to understand and enforce. The changes include…
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City of Covington increases homebuyer down payment assistance program cap to $10,000
For the second time in three years, the City of Covington is increasing the maximum amount of financial help it’ll…
Influx of new funding makes for ‘transformational’ $168 million budget for the City of Covington
Continued work to develop 23 vacant acres downtown. A permanent building for the Covington Farmers Market. Work to address slippage…
KZF Design to lead team designing infrastructure for 23-acre former IRS site in Covington
KZF Design Inc. will lead the team of architects, engineers, urban planners, and consultants whose drawings will lay the foundation…
COV reaches deal on bridge project that includes street, storm water upgrades, fewer buildings lost
Intense negotiation over the last year or so between the City of Covington and Kentucky Transportation officials has yielded an…
Seven Covington businesses the latest to receive funding from Small Business Incentive Program
A specialty South American restaurant, a cigar lounge, a specialized chiropractic care business, a destination bourbon bar, a legacy auto…
Covington offers parking amnesty for nearly 22,000 unpaid parking tickets through the month of June
If you own one or more of the 21,811 unpaid parking tickets issued in the City of Covington during the…
O’Rourke Wrecking Company to perform demolition of IRS facility in Covington; work to begin in March
Almost 55 years after it opened and 2½ years after it closed, the sprawling IRS data processing facility will soon…
COV Small Business Program reaches milestone as four additional businesses receive funding
Two new small businesses owned by women – a women’s boutique and a marketing consultant – and two commercial façade…
City of Covington taps familiar faces Holmes, Bales to lead Neighborhood Services department
The City of Covington department that oversees everything from trash collection to parks to housing vouchers and more has new…
Covington residents invited to comment on how $4 million in federal funds should be used by City
The Covington public has until the end of the day on July 14 to weigh in on how the City…
New life for ‘Pickle Factory’ in Covington; mostly hidden, long-vacant building on agenda for facelift
At various times during its 150-plus years of “life,” the somewhat hidden three-story brick building at 422 Madison Ave. has…
Covington focuses on vacant, abandoned houses; lien waivers, foreclosures among strategies
Neighbors know them well. Strung around the city, they’re the houses that have sat vacant for years – essentially abandoned,…
Covington Commission meets in nearly-empty City Hall; City passes ‘Conversion Therapy’ ordinance
By Ryan Clark NKyTribune reporter Concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic created a different scene at the Covington Board of…
Much of Covington City Hall operating from home, public safety employees still on the job
NKyTribune staff Covington City Hall at 20 West Pike St. resembled a “ghost town” Monday as the City ordered all…
Covington City Commission meetings closed to public, but citizens can watch live, submit comments
To help limit the spread of the acute respiratory virus COVID-19, the public will not be able to physically attend…
Covington buying IRS site; goal is to reshape its ‘identity and economics’ long into the future
The City of Covington will soon own 23 acres of land once described by an East Coast commercial developer as…
New CovData record dissects Fire Department runs ; annual report compiled and available to the public
The Covington Fire Department made 6,024 “runs” in the last half of 2019, of which 78.25 percent were EMS-related, 8.28…
Covington City Commission promotes six members of Police Department to new positions
Six Covington police officers were promoted to fill vacancies created over the last few months by a series of retirements….
Covington Commission approves agreement for Monarch Building to become home to DBL Law
The recent resurgence in Covington’s urban core continues with another large-scale project, this an $11.3 million expansion of a historic…
Design to start on two more Covington streetscape projects; envisioned to invite economic investment
The ongoing effort to improve the look, “feel” and walkability of Covington’s primary business district to make it more inviting…
Covington petitions state for relief on pensions, says shift of burden to cities inflicting ‘severe damage’
Calling the state’s management of public pensions “the biggest threat to the economic revitalization of our cities,” City of Covington…