What you need to know Covington’s annual financial audit has come back clean for the third year in a row. Additionally, fiscal year 2025, which concluded June 31, was the first time since fiscal year 2021 that the city’s general fund closed the fiscal year with revenues exceeding expenditures, i.e., without a deficit. The general […]
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Should Erlanger change its open records regulations?
What you need to know Erlanger has formed a task force to consider whether to change its public records request regulations. The task force is chaired by Council Member and former Mayor Tyson Hermes and met for the first time Tuesday afternoon. No official actions took place at the meeting. Task forces are recommending bodies […]
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Planning Commission denies Fischer Homes Independence zoning
What you need to know The Kenton County Planning Commission has denied a zoning change for a 178-unit development from Fischer Homes on a tract of land in Independence off KY-17. This is just north of the area where the new Publix grocery store is slated to open. Both planning commissioners and Independence residents expressed […]
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Covington Fire seeks to buy used truck while new truck is built
The Covington Fire Department is asking the city to buy a used fire truck to hold the department over while a brand new $2.3 million truck, which the city approved for purchase in February, is being manufactured. Fire Chief Corey Deye made the ask at the Board of Commissioners meeting on March 3. The commissioners […]
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Covington to buy Gateway building, sell it to increase tax revenue
What you need to know The City of Covington plans to buy the building that formerly housed Gateway Community and Technical College’s Professional Services Center and Massage Clinic, located on Scott Boulevard across from the Kenton County Public Library branch, and then sell it to office developers. “We would use this to create or attract […]
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Covington softball field to be named after girls’ sports pioneers
What you need to know Covington Independent Public Schools Board of Education voted last week to name the district’s new softball field after two pioneering coaches from Holmes whose efforts and advocacy helped establish organized girls’ sports programs in Northern Kentucky: Donna Wolfe and B. Joan Mitchell. “My kids would have died to have the […]
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Latonia, sidewalks, new dog park on Covington’s new priority list
What you need to know The Covington Board of Commissioners and city staff set new priorities for themselves at a special meeting over the weekend. The roughly three-hour long meeting included discussions on everything from skate parks to police drones to non-compliant landlords, but in the end, the commissioners came away with five priorities they […]
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How much would a public drinking area cost Covington?
What you need to know Covington has released projected expense figures for maintaining a public drinking area – known officially as a common consumption area, or CCA – in the Central Business District. The projections were presented to city commissioners at a special meeting Saturday morning. City staff projects an upfront cost of between $5,800 […]
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Buddy punch: Inside time theft at Covington Public Works
What you need to know An internal city investigation carried out in the latter parts of 2025 uncovered that at least six employees at Covington Public Works, including some supervisory staff, either engaged in or enabled the falsification of timecards, according to documents obtained by LINK nky. Public records detailing the city’s investigation revealed that […]
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These are the properties (and their prices) sold in NKY last month
Click below to jump to: LINK nky now has access to all of the public residential sales data in Boone, Kenton and Campbell Counties, and records show that developers and trusts are willing to shell out high prices for homes and land, even when it’s small. Case in point: A small property on Hogrefe Road […]
