By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Two arrest warrants have been issued in connection with the murder of Nicholas Tarpley at Anna Lee’s Convenience Store in Donora on Feb. 24. First Assistant Distr...

Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent Cousins Mason Rose, 7, Evan Smith, 7, Halle Smith, 10, and Hudson Rose, 2, had a picnic Monday afternoon in the gazebo at Chess Park in Monongahela. The Smith c...

By Eric Seiverling eseiverling@yourmvi.com Mon Valley roots run deep, and for Allenport natives and lifelong friends William “Spike” Shannon and Chuck Colditz, their never-ending ties to each other ha...

By Eric Seiverling eseiverling@yourmvi.com City officials in Monongahela continue to move forward with the repair or replacement of a collapsed drain pipe behind the city’s fire station that caused fl...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com White Oak’s 2021 paving project is underway, but during Monday’s council workshop meeting the borough engineer and a councilman brought up issues that have been experi...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com A hearing date has been set for a coal company that wants to begin operating in Forward Township on land zoned for conservation. Tom DeRosa, chairman of the tow...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The City of Monessen, its mayor, two councilmen and city administrator requested that a lawsuit filed against them be moved from county to federal court. Ed Lea, ...

By JEFF OLIVER For the MV Independent Earlier this year, because of the uncertainty of COVID-19 regulations, Larry Price was forced to cancel his biannual Ringgold, Donora, Monongahela Mon Valley Cath...

By Eric Seiverling eseiverling@yourmvi.com Monongahela Mayor Greg Garry ordered an emergency declaration Friday night for a portion of the city after a collapsed sewer drain and heavy rains flooded th...

By Eric Seiverling eseiverling@yourmvi.com Everything was just ducky at Monongahela’s Noble J. Dick Aquatorium Sunday. With the largest crowd the event has ever had, the Monongahela Rotary Club’s four...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A long-standing tradition for area walkers and runners will return after being canceled last year due to COVID-19.   For the previous 34 years, on the first Saturday...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com A portion of a Forward Township farm has been declared one of just 18 wild plant sanctuaries in the state. The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation of Natura...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Like many boroughs, cities and other municipalities, Donora has gotten its first payment from the American Rescue Plan Act and is figuring out what to do with the...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com This week marks the 82nd and 83rd annual conventions for the Fayette County Firefighters Association, the first time ever the association has combined conventio...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The Allegheny County Health Department is requesting public comment on its 2022 Air Monitoring Network Plan. The annual report/plan, which is required by the U.S. Envi...

By Eric Seiverling eseiverling@yourmvi.com After 3 feet of water flooded its station during Thursday night’s rainstorms, the Monongahela Fire Department took its fight with Norfolk Southern Corp. to H...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Camaraderie, to members of the McKeesport Past and Present group, can’t be broken or diminished by long distances or time spent apart. There’s a party going on in McKe...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Monessen police are searching for a man accused of robbing a bank in Monessen. City police Officer Rebekah Shrader said the suspect took an unspecified amount of money...

By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmvi.com Charleroi Fire Capt. Matt Prentice is eagerly await the day he can be back in the seat of a fire engine. Prentice was severely injured July 3 after falling through t...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Elizabeth Township police are investigating a report of vandalism at Mount Vernon Park. Elizabeth Forward Youth Athletics Vice President Chris Thoma said someon...