By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The Mon Valley does not play around when it comes to fighting cancer. That was evident Friday as hundreds of students and residents with their game faces on walked t...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Four McKeesport families had to be evacuated from a crumbling apartment building in the city’s Grandview neighborhood Thursday night. The building, which was condemned...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com The annual Raise Your Voice Music and Arts Festival returns May 18 to Schooner Youth Center in Monessen. Presented by Monessen Communities That Care, the Mon Valley ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Walking into Clancy’s Pub on Sunday, guests couldn’t help but notice a sea of people wearing shirts that said “This T-shirt helped keep a police officer safe.” Those p...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts is searching for the state’s most creative communities. Through the new Pennsylvania Creative Communities initiative, the group ...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Donora is getting closer to having a park at the intersection of Seventh Street and McKean Avenue. The park will sit on a couple parcels of land that the borough ...

Edward M. Lis, 66, of Dravosburg, died Friday, May 3, 2019. He was born Jan. 2, 1953, in Munhall, the son of the late Edward and Jenny Bolger Lis. He is survived by his wife, Danae W. Lis; daughters, ...

Susan M. Sambol Petrus, of Maumee, Ohio, and formerly of Donora, trusting in God’s eternal love and living a grace-filled life of 107 years, was welcomed into His loving arms on May 3, 2019, at the ho...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com U.S. Steel announced Thursday it will invest more than $1 billion to create two state-of-the-art facilities at its Mon Valley Works. Company leaders say the investment...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com An audit of Monessen’s finances detailing its $7.2 million debt has been made public, but the city’s solicitor said its release is “premature.”   The Mon Valley Inde...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com A Monessen man’s federal lawsuit against California University of Pennsylvania and the borough’s police department has been dismissed.   U.S. Magistrate Judge Lisa P...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com American spirit lives in Washington County. That’s the slogan behind the new marketing campaign unveiled Thursday by the Washington County Tourism Promotion Agency, ...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The Charleroi Area School District will soon make an investment in safety involving more than a half-million dollars. The district announced Thursday that it was awa...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Donora is preparing to seek bids for the feasibility study of the potential Mon Valley Coal and Steel Heritage Trail.   The borough received $100,000 in grant fun...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com The Elizabeth Forward softball team checked another achievement off its list, finishing a perfect section season with a 5-3 victory over Belle Vernon Area Thursday...

By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com Serra Catholic’s Mark Black set a new single-season program record with his ninth home run of the season and Nico Eremic hit his second homer in as many days to lead...

By jeremy tepper For the MV Independent Belle Vernon Area head coach Daryl Hixenbaugh was worried his team might suffer a letdown Thursday. Less than 24 hours prior, Belle Vernon Area had beaten Ringg...

By zack zeigler For the MV Independent Entering the top of the seventh inning of Thursday’s WPIAL Section 1-4A softball matchup against Uniontown, Yough pitcher Kierra Waywood was working on a no-hitt...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com Next to section-champion West Greene, there may not be hotter team in softball’s Section 2-A than the Monessen Greyhounds. First-year coach Carlee Wickstrom’s team...

The Honorable James Lee Pascoe, 72, former mayor of Carnegie, passed on Wednesday, May 1, 2019.  Beloved husband of Patricia Costella Pascoe; son of the late James C. and Norma (Brewer) Pascoe; loving...