By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Trick or treating is “a go” in Washington Township. Supervisors Jan Amoroso, Scott Hileman and Chuck Yusko during Wednesday’s meeting unanimously passed a motion permi...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Some people are born to dance, others to sing. But it seems former Port Vue police Chief Bryan Myers, a man who held numerous other official hats in the borough and wi...

BY JEFF OLIVER For the MV Independent Seventeen years ago, Kim Heath sat in a Washington County Courtroom and heard Jason Benner admit to murdering her brother, Jo Jo Heath, over some crack cocaine Be...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com The Monongahela Area Library is feeling the crunch of the coronavirus pandemic. At its regular meeting Wednesday, Monongahela council discussed the possibili...

Gian Vero, 6, pushes his little sister Gilda Pryor, 3, both of Monessen, down the sidewalk while they play on a beautiful afternoon.

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com When a new Monessen City Council is seated in 2022, the members might be paid by the meeting if an ordinance set to be introduced next week passes. The ordinance ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Mon Valley municipalities such as Glassport, McKeesport and Versailles are urging residents to respond to the 2020 U.S. Census. In March, homes across the country rece...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Gov. Tom Wolf delivered a good-news, bad-news situation Tuesday for Pennsylvania restaurants impacted by coronavirus restrictions. Wolf announced that restau...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Some Mon Valley residents have taken their passion for floating and turned it into a mission to help the environment and their second home — the Yough River.   Ryan ...

By ERIC SEIVERLING seiverling@yourmvi.com Monongahela residents looking to make a difference in the community will have a chance Thursday when Allegheny Cleanways visits the Monongahela Aquatorium for...

By RON PAGLIA For the Mon Valley Independent A recent column about the end of trolley cars as a means of transportation in this mid-Monongahela Valley sparked welcome response from readers of this wee...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com State police are searching for two suspects who robbed a gas station convenience store at gunpoint in North Belle Vernon early Friday morning. In a public information ...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com To discuss the ongoing economic recovery of western Pennsylvania from the coronavirus pandemic, the Senate Majority Policy Committee will host a workshop wit...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com For many hard-working Americans, the Labor Day holiday is a three-day-weekend filled with cookouts, cold beverages, splashing in the pool, nature walking, hiking, fish...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com School looks a little – or a lot – different this year. For some students, the start of school meant sitting in a make-shift classroom inside of their living rooms w...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Angela Gallo Lancas is not one to gloat, but she has a lot to be proud of. After celebrating her 100th birthday Wednesday, she was hesitant to talk about her accolad...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The state Senate Education Committee on Friday voted 10 to 1 in favor of House Bill 2787, which would officially give local school districts the power to decide what f...

By Christine Haines chaines@yourmvi.com The Washington County Commissioners voted to hire Zelenkofske Axelrod LLC to oversee the COVID-19 Relief Block Grant program in a special meeting held Friday. T...

Kinsey Wilson, a junior at Monessen High School, picks up her school-issued Chromebook from Assistant Principal DJ Madzey outside the school Thursday afternoon.

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Charleroi Borough Council is seeking help from the public to identify a driver who is dumping contracting bags full of trash throughout town. “There are tons of them...