By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Monongahela city council voted to purchase new Tasers for the police department, but a motion to buy a used car died for lack of a second. In a work session last ...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com Two more area communities have thrown their hats in the ring for the fourth annual America’s Main Streets Contest.   Downtown Elizabeth and downtown Washington, Pa.,...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Patrons who visit Grand Theatre in Elizabeth this weekend will be taking a journey to a far away swamp that is home to a big green ogre. Mon River Art’s production of ...

Long-term lane restrictions on the Elizabeth Bridge on Route 51 in Elizabeth, Jefferson Hills and West Elizabeth boroughs began Monday. Restrictions are implemented in each direction on Route 51 and t...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A preliminary hearing for a Braddock police officer accused of being under the influence of fentanyl while on duty will be held in McKeesport. Renee Christine Jones, 2...

By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmv.com The Washington County Chamber of Commerce announced the finalists Tuesday for the Washington County ATHENA Leadership Award and the recipient of the Washington County...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The Donora police department contract may be settled, but there is still discord between the officers and borough council. Police union steward and senior Officer...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com Monessen citizens, business owners and other community members are invited to weigh in on the city’s future.   As part of the implementation of the Early Interventio...

By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmv.com Pennsylvania counties are making the transition to more secure and accessible voting systems with paper records. According to a release Monday from the Department of ...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com Downtown Monessen is now a contender in a national community revitalization competition.   Last month, the Monessen Community Development Corporation scored a nomina...

By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmvi.com A handful of Elizabeth Township residents are not happy with current — and future — projects in the township, but money isn’t the issue. During Monday’s agenda meeti...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Donora is moving toward hiring a code enforcement officer. Borough administrator John Bedner told council last week that he plans to start interviewing candidates...

By JIM BUSCH For the Mon Valley Independent Gregory Nemchick will never forget saying goodbye to his brother as he left for Vietnam in 1965.   He asked Michael Nemchick, “When will you be coming back?...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com The Greater Rostraver Chamber of Commerce hopes guests will bring their appetites to the fifth annual Taste of the Town. Designed to promote area businesses, the eve...

By Renatta Signorini Poll workers are becoming hard to find, both locally and statewide. It’s important work, checking in voters and delivering results, that takes more than 40,000 volunteers across P...

By RON PAGLIA You know how it goes. One thing leads to another. So it was with a Pages of the Past history item the other day regarding a destructive fire 60 years ago at the Phillipsburg School in Ca...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com U.S. Steel has confirmed that it will be able to comply with a revised Allegheny County Health Department enforcement order issued Tuesday for the Mon Valley Works. In...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Hearings for two people charged in a pre-dawn drug bust March 1 in Monessen have been postponed. Eric Emerson, 30, and Kim Jackson, 45, both of Summit Avenue in M...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Monongahela’s solicitor believes the problem of continued slippage on Second Street after a landslide in September is a private issue. In the months since the ini...

By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmv.com Friday was the “best day ever” for Louden Stanko thanks to a sweet gesture by one of his classmates at Ringgold Middle School.   Eighth grader Karley Kray had been pl...