By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com With the number of new coronavirus cases slowing, the Pennsylvania Department of Health has started to share different types of data. Some of that data deal with ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The McKeesport Area School District will utilize a portion of federal CARES Act relief aid to ensure students have a way to access online learning materials remotely f...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the Allegheny County Summer Concert Series to move from the South Park and Hartwood Acres Park amphitheaters to Pittsburgh’s...

By jose negron jnegron@yourmvi.com Andrew Pacak envisions a day when he receives an opportunity to play Division I football. It may not occur within the next year or so, but Pacak could be well on his...

By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com Elizabeth Forward was left with a sour taste in its mouth after a one-run loss to Belle Vernon Area in last year’s WPIAL Class 4A championship game. The Warriors cam...

Gertrude Williamson, 91, of Fallowfield Township, passed away peacefully on May 25, 2020, at Walnut Ridge Memory Care in Greensburg. She was born in Charleroi on June 3, 1928, the daughter of the late...

Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent Morgan Motycki of Charleroi is given a sign for being this year’s salutatorian at Geibel Catholic High School by biology and chemistry teacher Shelly Harner.

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The four counties that make up the Mon Valley will enter the green phase of reopening next Friday. Allegheny, Fayette, Washington and Westmoreland counties will j...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Shouting “No justice no peace, prosecute the police,” and eliciting honks of support from drivers passing by, protesters gathered Friday afternoon along East...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Gov. Tom Wolf said Friday there’s “no question” that Pennsylvania school districts will physically reopen in the fall. A few Mon Valley superintendents reacted Friday ...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Donora Mayor Jim McDonough has moved to enforce an ordinance that would require police Superintendent Jim Brice to retire, despite council’s vote this month to re...

By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com Tony Cook enjoys the usual hobbies of any other 15-year-old boy, especially basketball. The South Allegheny High School student, who will be a sophomore in the fall,...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com A resident of Tyrol Boulevard in Rostraver Township is circulating a petition in an effort to stop a leachate evaporation system from being installed at the Wes...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com The demand on the Greater Washington County Food Bank continues to increase, reaching what are believed to be record numbers in May. “By the end of April, we sa...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The Roscoe Volunteer Fire Company is finding new ways to raise money under coronavirus restrictions. The fire company will hold its first-ever outdoor “drive-in” cas...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com There may soon be an outlet for all those baseball players looking to get back on the field this summer.   Fayette County Baseball League President Ryan Encapera s...

By JEFF OLIVER Staff Writer WASHINGTON — Zack Jeney couldn’t believe what happened to him in the bottom of the fifth inning Tuesday. The California ace pitcher was sailing along with a 2-0 lead over G...

On May 15, 2020, heaven REJOICED as Charles Bernard Barcelona, of Pittsburgh and Boca Raton, Fla., a one of a kind patriarch, commander in chief and ‘the Nono’, passed away two months after celebratin...

Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent Chris Sesco gave his son, Danny Sesco, a ride to fourth-grade graduation Thursday at Ringgold Elementary School North on the back of his motorcycle. Teachers Ma...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Local officials voiced their opinions Thursday on the new $25.8 billion spending bill waiting to be signed by Gov. Tom Wolf. The bill arrived on Wolf’s desk ...