By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com Monessen City Council will hold a special meeting tonight to discuss the emergency demolition of a former fire department social hall. City solicitor Joseph R. Dalfo...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A textile manufacturing and production company is expanding its business into McKeesport, and is promising to bring some new jobs with it. American Textile Company, a ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The McKeesport K-9 Unit made the sad announcement a couple of weeks ago that K-9 Farkle was diagnosed with cancer. Farkle, an 8-year-old Dutch shepherd who was donated...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com Fayette County became the first in the state to grant land bank powers to its redevelopment authority Thursday, making it easier for local officials to fight communi...

Opportunity is returning to the Mon Valley, as we saw Thursday in both Donora and McKeesport. Donora celebrated the expansion of Tech Met with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The current owners bought the ...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com A Donora personal care home is set to lose its license after multiple state inspections revealed nearly 90 violations, including alleged patient abuse. The Pennsylva...

By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com A University of Pittsburgh Medical Center representative made a presentation to the Elizabeth Forward School Board Wednesday night regarding the potential negative e...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com A Washington Township firefighter was transported to an area hospital following a Rostraver Township house fire Wednesday morning. The unidentified firefighter was a...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Ringgold School District has launched its own app and it’s available for both Android and iPhone smartphone devices. The app is available in Google Play and the A...

By Bob Pajich For the Mon Valley Independent South Allegheny School Board hired a new high school principal Wednesday. The board unanimously voted to hire David McDonald at an annual salary of $105,00...

By ZACK ZEIGLER For the MV Independent And now there is one at the top. In a matchup of the two top teams in the Section 2-3A, the Belle Vernon Area girls took sole possession of first place with a 4-...

By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com Justice Rice, a 2017 Monessen graduate, will enter his sophomore season with the Grove City College men’s basketball team this fall. Rice started all 26 of his team’...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com Welcome to daytime TV and radio in the City of Pittsburgh. That’s not General Hospital on your TVs and your radio dials. It’s the daytime drama that is the Pittsbu...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Two state officials were impressed Tuesday after a visit to a Center of Excellence facility in Monessen. Department of Human Services Secretary Teresa Miller and Dep...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Millions of state-disbursed grant dollars aimed at repairing sewer systems and upgrading recreational facilities are headed to Mid-Mon Valley communities and municipal...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com Belle Vernon is still recovering from last week’s heavy rains, fire Chief Rich Saxberg said Tuesday. “It was a river coming down the hillside,” Saxberg told his fell...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Ringgold School District is holding an active-shooter drill during a two-hour delay this morning, before students arrive at school for the day. Superintendent Meg...

By Bob Pajich The remnant rains of Tropical Storm Gordon caused another landslide in Glassport, forcing its mayor to declare an emergency and council to hold a meeting with an engineering firm. The De...

Apple Fest will feature BBQ, apple dumplings and folk music while Greenock Log House Days will host colonial reactors and vendors when the two events occur next to each other Saturday in Elizabeth Tow...

ROSTRAVER AIRPORT OFFICIALS received great news to the tune of $657,162 — thanks to a grant from the Federal Aviation Administration. The money will permit the Westmoreland County Airport Authority to...