By Jeff Stitt jstitt@yourmvi.com A Monessen couple was rushed to area hospitals late Sunday night after a fire ripped through their State Road home, according to Municipal Fire Chief Delmar Hepple. He...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com After another two weeks of what he refers to as “drama,” Mayor Matt Shorraw threatened to dissolve Monessen’s Recreation Board. In Monday’s workshop meeting, Shor...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Warmer temperatures and rain over the weekend caused snow to melt and forced some Mon Valley waterways to run over into businesses, residents’ basements and ...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Elizabeth Township residents are encouraged to participate in the next step of the township’s comprehensive plan. Public input sessions have been scheduled for ...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com The Monongahela Police Department received a sweet delivery Monday afternoon at City Hall. As part of its Sweet Sunday Dessert Festival, members of the Washi...

Thomas Stephen Evans Sr., 58, of Long Branch, went to be with the Lord on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021. Son of the late Thomas D. Evans and Peggy Poprosky Rattay and stepfather Donald Rattay, who survive and...

Nellie Pearl Foster, 90, of Elizabeth, died Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, in Jefferson Hospital. She was born June 5, 1930, the daughter of Joseph and Margaret Boyd Campbell. Nellie spent her life taking c...

Ruth Esther Balas Levy, 88, passed away peacefully on Feb. 27, 2021, at The Residence at Hilltop Assisted Living Facility. Born on Oct. 17, 1932, in Monessen, Ruth is the daughter of Michael and Cathe...

Thomas E. Kruppa, 76, of Roscoe, passed away on Monday, March 1, 2021. Born on May 5, 1944, he was the son of the late Coleman and Margaret Kruppa. He was a member of St. Andrew the Apostle Parish and...

Richard Lee Jackson, 60, of Charleroi, passed away on Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021. A son of the late Jack Jackson and Mary Green Jackson who survives and resides in Charleroi, he was born in Rochester, Pa...

Ronald M. Sutton, 92, of Floreffe, passed away on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021, at Jefferson Hills Rehabilitation and Wellness Center. He retired as a truck driver for Mon River Supply in West Elizabeth and ...

Kenneth Turner, 91, of Coal Center, passed away Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021. A son of the late Loren and Mabel Ray Turner, he was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, on April 20, 1929. A resident of Coal Center sin...

Ronald J. Wood, 50, of Greensburg, formerly of Export and Belle Vernon, passed away Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021, at Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, after a lengthy battle with COVID-19. Born July 13...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com It has stood for 117 years, and thanks to local residents and lots of elbow grease, the mausoleum in West Newton Cemetery that houses Sutersville founder Eli...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com The Great Allegheny Passage winds through Rostraver Township along the Youghiogheny River from Van Meter to Collinsburg, but none of the trail signs tell people...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com McKeesport Area school board recently discussed White Oak council’s 2021 budgetary decision to stop paying for a crossing guard at Francis McClure Elementary School. T...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com McKeesport Area School Board on Wednesday granted permission to Superintendent Dr. Mark Holtzman to submit for a waiver for the National Occupational Competency Testin...

By JONATHAN GUTH MVI Sports Belle Vernon’s Cole Weightman won his second straight WPIAL Class 3A/Southwest Regional Championship Saturday at Canon-McMillan High School. Weightman (29-4, 69-11) earned ...

By DEAN DELLAMALVA JR. MVI Sports Serra Catholic’s boys team didn’t have the most successful regular season, but the playoffs got underway with a different result Saturday. It was the No. 18 Eagles wh...

By ADAM BREWER MVI Sports The California boys’ basketball team only played nine regular season games this winter.   To some that may seem like a short season, but it wasn’t as the Trojans had a late s...