Sandra JoAnne McHugh, age 76, of South Yarmouth, Mass., formerly of Pittsburgh, passed away peacefully surrounded by her family on Jan. 29, 2019, at Cape Cod Hospital, after a long battle with chronic...

By Jeremy Tepper For the MV Independent Before the game even started, it was clear that the deck was stacked against the California boys basketball team. Going into its first round WPIAL playoff match...

By Dan Palm For the MV Independent It was a big weekend for   local high school wrestling as three of the 14 young men crowned as WPIAL 2A champions Saturday at Canon MacMillan High School represented...

By Jeff Oliver For the MV Independent When Elizabeth Forward opens the WPIAL Class 4A girls basketball playoffs tonight at Mt. Lebanon (6:30 p.m. tip), the Warriors will have a height advantage, albei...

By George Guido For the MV Independent The drought is finally over. Deer Lakes won a WPIAL boys basketball playoff game for the first time since March 2, 1985, with a 57-47 victory over Charleroi on S...

By JIM BUSCH For the Mon Valley Independent The McKeesport History and Heritage Center invited the public to its Renziehausen Park museum for a special Black History Month presentation. More than 50 l...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com Belle Vernon Area High School students may have an advantage in an upcoming robotics competition, thanks to a visit last week from U.S. Army soldiers.   BVA STEM tea...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Anything goes around the card table, except gossip. For the past 68 years, every other Wednesday a group of Roscoe women have gathered for their bi-monthly euchre ga...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Gray Paws Sanctuary of White Oak co-founder Darla Poole Brescia isn’t much of a gambler, but said she will “gladly facilitate it for the old dogs.” That’s why Gray Paw...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Monongahela city council had the first reading of amendments to several ordinances to implement a municipal recycling program and to prohibit leaf waste disposal....

By JIM BUSCH For the Mon Valley Independent The McKeesport History and Heritage Center is marking Presidents Day with a month-long celebration of the Tube City’s ties to our country’s leaders.   This ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com An old house that sat on the property of Equipment Connection & Party Rental Co. on Tyrol Boulevard in Rostraver Township was demolished following a fire early Friday ...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com Monessen Councilman Anthony Orzechowski came under fire Thursday for his denial of an alleged gender pay gap in Monessen.   Resident Donald Gregor took issue with Or...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Two McKeesport women were allegedly sliced with a knife during an altercation this week. Cynthia Mareene Wilson, 56, of Beaver Street, McKeesport, was charged with two...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The Authority of the Borough of Charleroi received good news Friday.   Water tests completed Thursday came back negative for bacteria. If tests completed Friday have...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com Belle Vernon Area High School students continue to work toward becoming impactful leaders through the Emerging Leadership program’s latest partnership.   Launched in...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Several area school districts, through a collaborative effort, are aiming to develop a state-wide model for STEM education using a nearly half a million dollar grant...

By JOSE NEGRON jnegron@yourmvi.com Fifth-seeded Serra Catholic overcame early shooting woes and used its stingy defense to claim a 59-29 victory over No. 12 Sto-Rox in a WPIAL Class 2A first round mat...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com The career of arguably the best girls basketball player to come out of Frazier came to an end Friday. Brooke Poling scored a team-high 20 points for Frazier, but t...

By Jeff Oliver For the MV Independent First impressions can be misleading. For example, Charleroi not only will take just an 11-10 record into its WPIAL Class 3A first round playoff game against Deer ...