The former IRS parking lot on the west side of Johnson Street has been transformed into a free, by-appointment COVID-19 drive-thru testing facility.  Sign up online for no-wait drive-thru site at old IRS lot COVINGTON, Ky. – Need a COVID-19 test?   Here’s a reminder that you can get one for free with little wait in Covington … but you have to sign up online.   The...

Careful maneuvering, perseverance required on tight city streets   COVINGTON, Ky. – With scant inches of space between his mirrors and the parked cars on either side, Jason Roberts slowly maneuvered his Ford 250 down 28th Street, his plow scraping the road free of freshly fallen snow.   It was nearly midnight, Roberts was almost six hours into what promised to be a 16-hour shift, ...

COVINGTON, Ky. – Note to Covington residents looking to get rid of construction/home renovation debris and other bulk trash items:   The Covington Transfer Station will be closed Friday to drop-off traffic starting at noon and all day Saturday temporarily as Rumpke Waste & Recycling, which runs the complex, makes improvements to the site.   But Rumpke will be accepting bulk tr...

City welcomes project but fears impact on businesses   COVINGTON, Ky. – The Suspension Bridge will be reduced to one lane of traffic beginning Monday and closed to vehicles altogether starting Feb. 15, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet announced today.   The closure will last up to 10 months as part of a $4.7 million restoration project to fix crumbling sandstone on the north tow...

Lonnie Johnson, a light equipment operator with Covington’s Public Works Department, prepares to grab another load of salt at the City’s complex on Boron Drive this morning as crews continued to treat roads. COVINGTON, Ky. – The snow fell, the wind at times raged, and the slush on the ground froze and then refroze as surface temperatures fluctuated … but the snow-fighters ...

The top finishers in the Winter Reading Challenge (clockwise from top left): Preschooler Maliyah Collins with her mother, third-grader Addison Johnson with her mother, second-grader Carter Hansen with his grandfather, first-grader Lamarck Carter with his mother, and kindergartener Jordan Geyer with his mother and brother. 5 win grand prizes in Mayor’s Winter Challenge  COVINGTON, Ky. &n...

City seeks firms for demolition, environmental hazards removal   COVINGTON, Ky. – Three underground fuel tanks. A 3,000-gallon underground concrete “vault.” A sprawling one-story brick facility whose “footprint” stretches across most of 17 acres. Asbestos. Lots of asphalt.   And cavernous physical plant rooms filled with wires, compressors, greasy gears, gen...

Covington’s Small Business Program has been used over the last few years to help entrepreneurs and small businesses like The Roost in Latonia. City offering help renovating exteriors, paying startups’ rent COVINGTON, Ky. – Small businesses in Covington have until Friday, Jan. 29, to apply for the next round of City help in paying first-year rent or fixing up their exteriors. Si...

New Covington Police Officer Jacob Noe displays his new badge as Police Chief Rob Nader and Mayor Joe Meyer look on. COVINGTON, Ky. – Covington’s newest police officer is a military veteran who has served the public by enforcing the law and protecting citizens in Kenton County for 25 years.  Jacob Noe, who retired from Kenton County Police in 2016 and has patrolled in the city of ...

4 Kenton cities pledge continued focus throughout year   COVINGTON, Ky. – If you missed the Martin Luther King Jr. Day virtual event on Monday evening sponsored by Covington and sister cities Independence, Erlanger, and Elsmere, you can still watch it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x67WXRDCgDc&feature=youtu.be   It’s just 24 minutes long but full of candid assessment:...