By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com For the past eight years, McKeesport residents and families and friends of Kane Community Living Centers residents have been taking to the street once a year for the J...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com When Hurricane Katrina made its way toward the U.S. Gulf Coast in 2005, residents of the area couldn’t imagine the havoc that would unfold. The deadliest and costlie...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com We’re at 11 straight section championships and counting for the Frazier Commodores volleyball team. But this year, the cast is much different for Mandy Hartman’s t...

By jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com It’s comeback season for Thomas Jefferson’s DeRon VanBibber.   The senior running back/defensive back is working his way back to 100% heading into the fall football ...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com The Belle Vernon Area School Board Tuesday in special session passed a resolution to continue with the district’s fall sports programs. The board voted 8-1 in f...

By ADAM BREWER MVI Sports Last season was a year of chances and near misses for the Bentworth boys soccer team. Five of their seven losses were decided by two goals or less. They were 5-4 in one-goal ...

Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent Danielle Clements gives her daughter Phalon Spradley a kiss as she arrives for her first day of kindergarten at California Area Elementary School Wednesday morn...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Ken and Brooke Ramsdell fell in love New Orleans. That’s why the Charleroi couple tied the knot in a romantic and intimate ceremony in the French Quarter Aug. 26, 20...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com The Mon Valley will be represented at the White House tonight when President Donald Trump accepts the Republican National Convention’s nomination to seek re-...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com One person was injured after an explosion Wednesday morning at Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill in Rostraver Township. According to Rostraver Central Fire Dept...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The “We Can Do It! WWII” exhibit has left Donora after its pandemic-induced extended visit, but the impact will continue to be felt in town. The Donora Historical...

Rudy Phillips of Monongahela and Al Anderson of Fallowfield Township took a break and enjoyed the beautiful weather as they rode their motorcycles on a recent afternoon.

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Gov. Tom Wolf announced his fall agenda Tuesday, asking both Republican and Democratic lawmakers to put aside their differences so families and businesses im...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Game on — at least in Cougar Country. The Charleroi Area School Board unanimously voted Tuesday to move forward with fall sports. It’s the first school district in t...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Monessen Mayor Matt Shorraw and two councilmen will ask a judge Friday to reconsider his ruling against them in a lawsuit alleging Sunshine Act violations.   West...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The first fundraiser for a pack of area Cub Scouts was a bubbling success over the weekend. Pack 1542, based out of Mingo Presbyterian Church, took over the parking ...

By Christine Haines chaines@yourmvi.com The COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact operations for the courts. Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala is looking into creating a centralized c...

By Christine Haines chaines@yourmvi.com A digital billboard company is proposing a partnership with Elizabeth Borough that would provide the community with a percentage of the advertising profits. “Yo...

By DEAN DELLAMALVA Jr. MVI Sports The Elizabeth Forward girls volleyball program has a proven track record for success in recent years.   Now, the perennial playoff qualifier has the return of a highl...

By JEFF OLIVER MVI Sports Going into his second season as Monessen girls soccer coach, Bill Phillips’ biggest concern is not the COVID-19 pandemic. He just doesn’t want to see the trainer. And for goo...