COVINGTON, Ky. - A $3.7 million plan to invest in Covington’s low- and moderate-income areas includes $1.2 million in programs designed to help people buy homes and to create, repair and maintain affordable housing.
The Covington City Commission on Tuesday night approved both the budget for the CDBG/HOME Annual Action Plan for program year 2018-19 and guidelines for three of its housi...
Director Rick Davis has focused on modernizing Covington's Department of Public Works and improving customer service.
COVINGTON, Ky. - Covington Public Works Director Rick Davis has a clear and succinct explanation for why his job is satisfying:
“We fix stuff,” he said.
Being able to see the tangible embodiment of his Department’s work - in the form of smooth-surface...
COVINGTON, Ky. - A new phone app and online tool going live today will make it easier for the public to not only report infrastructure problems in the City of Covington but also follow up to see if those problems are being fixed.
Take this scenario:
It's a Saturday morning and while walking in, say, MainStrasse Village, you notice a crumbling curb. Or a pothole. Or a loose sewer grat...
COVINGTON, Ky. – The Latonia Water Park/Splash Pad is fixed and will be open today.
The complex at 43rd Street and Decoursey Avenue was closed Friday after the water filtration system broke.
Employees from the City’s Public Works Department and local electricians spend Friday afternoon and early evening working on the pump and electrical system and got it fixed.
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The OSHA heat index, designed to protect workers during hot weather
COVINGTON, Ky. - On brutally hot days, the garbage trucks may be driving down Covington streets an hour earlier than usual.
In an effort to protect workers at Rumpke Waste & Recycling from heat-related illnesses like heat stroke and heat exhaustion, the City of Covington has agreed to let Rumpke begin residential and commercia...
Some 300-400 people a day come to the Latonia Water Park/Splash Pad on weekends.
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Since the publication of this article, the Water Park has been repaired and is open.)
COVINGTON, Ky. - Electricians and Covington Public Works technicians are working furiously to fix the water filtration system at the Latonia Water Park/Splash Pad heading into what is expected to be the hottest weeken...
Volunteers of all ages help keep Covington beautiful, and visitors notice the effort.
COVINGTON, Ky. - With green-colored “map pins” arrayed like a general’s strategic deployment of resources, a new map on the City’s COVDATA website identifies a veritable army of volunteers working in neighborhoods across Covington to beautify their surroundings.
It’s called the...
You don't have to be Superman to save the earth. On World Environment Day, we tell you how.
COVINGTON, Ky. - Bet you didn’t know today was World Environment Day.
What can you do to celebrate? Change your habits, of course.
By ourselves, “saving the earth” seems like an awful big and discouraging task (ever heard of Sisyphus and his boulder?). So we’ve c...
Crews from Duke Energy examine the gas line break at 35th and Latonia.
COVINGTON, Ky. - Residents of a two-square-block area of Latonia were forced out of their homes for about two hours on Friday afternoon after a contractor working on the reconstruction of Latonia Avenue ruptured a natural gas line.
No one was hurt in either the incident or the evacuation, Covington Fire Chief Mark Pierce ...
COVINGTON, Ky. - Covington officials want help finding street lights that aren’t working.
“We have about 4,000 street lights in the City, plus some 300 to 400 decorative street lamps,” said Rick Davis, Covington’s interim Public Works Director. “They’re important for safety and security, and so we try to keep up with them. But that’s a lot easier if...