Legal fight won’t affect rates or service but would improve responsiveness to businesses, residents
COVINGTON, Ky. – After five years of fruitless negotiation and mediation, the City of Covington has been forced to file legal action to settle the legitimacy of Duke Energy’s claim that it enjoys the exclusive, irrevocable, perpetual right to provide electric service in Cov...
City hires specialized contractor to save home of renowned painter
COVINGTON, Ky. – The stabilization of world-famous painter and sculptor Frank Duveneck’s childhood home in Covington will be handled by a company that has worked on everything from Cincinnati’s Music Hall to the foundation of Hotel Covington to a fire-damaged Jim Beam Rickhouse.
The Covington Board of Commis...
Photos used courtesy of Jeff Volter
But operations will be limited by state-set numbers, required buffer
COVINGTON, Ky. – State-licensed medical cannabis operations will be allowed in Covington as of Jan. 1, 2025.
The Covington Board of Commissioners voted Tuesday to permit and regulate the growing, selling, and processing of medical cannabis under a statewide licensing system creat...
‘Exciting place to be right now’
COVINGTON, Ky. – The City of Covington is looking for an attorney to run its Legal Department.
With City Solicitor David Davidson retiring at the end of June, the City has posted an Opening for City Solicitor.
Davidson, who has been practicing law for 44 years, has overseen the City’s Legal operations since April 2022. He called the...
Use comment form, or attend public hearing Thursday
COVINGTON, Ky. – The City of Covington is collecting feedback on proposed new regulations for short-term rentals and changes to how rental licenses are obtained.
The feedback can be given in two ways:
One, detailed feedback can be given by submitting comments in writing using this Short-term rental comment form.
Two, brief comme...
COVINGTON, Ky. – The City of Covington has tweaked its noise ordinance to make it easier to understand and enforce.
The changes include separate regulations for daytime and nighttime monitoring and more objective evaluation of whether noise is unreasonably loud and thus violates the ordinance.
The specific changes were first brought to the Covington Board of Commissioners for discussio...
The release of a “chemical irritant” at Interplastic Corporation in March 2019 required a “shelter in place” order for residents and businesses of West Latonia.
Although options are limited, City taking steps
COVINGTON, Ky. – Even while acknowledging “limited options” and “tied hands,” Covington officials say they’re taking steps in...
COVINGTON, Ky. – Covington’s new City Solicitor is intimately familiar with the city – he’s practiced law in it for more than four decades.
“Every day of my career, I’ve practiced in Covington,” David Davidson said. “You learn a lot about a community in 42 years.”
Davidson’s passion for the city was readily apparent during the inter...
Lulu Northcutt’s 1924 yearbook photo at the University of Kentucky. (Photo used courtesy of UK Rosenberg College of Law.)
City’s legal conference room to bear name of female legal trailblazer
COVINGTON, Ky. – Covington’s Lulu Northcutt made headlines in a March 6, 1929, article in The Kentucky Post newspaper by doing what lawyers generally do – she filed an acti...
Landlords who operate outside the law will be fined, maybe shut down
COVINGTON, Ky. – Time is running out for landlords who are refusing to obtain the required rental dwelling license.
The City of Covington has begun issuing citations and $250 fines to property owners who rent out their housing – either on a long-term or short-term basis – and have ignored repeated warnings...