By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Somebody cashed in with the purchase of a lottery ticket Saturday at Par Mar, the convenience store at the BP gas station next to Bart’s on Grand Boulevard in Mon...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com The WPIAL basketball postseason is upon us and the girls championship tournament brackets are set, as the WPIAL announced the playoff field Friday afternoon. Betwe...

By Liam Belan lbelan@yourmvi.com The WPIAL released the boys basketball playoff brackets Monday afternoon, where 10 Mon Valley schools will look to run the gauntlet and claim glory across five classes...

By Liam Belan lbelan@yourmvi.com Hours after the WPIAL boys basketball playoff brackets were released, two postseason squads with a history converged at Thomas Jefferson as the Jaguars hosted rival Be...

By JIM BUSCH For the MVI The Elbow Room in McKeesport welcomed guests for the last time Sunday. Hundreds of people packed the restaurant/bar to say goodbye to old friends and to an establishment that ...

By Michael Richter mrichter@yourmvi.com At Thursday’s meeting, McKeesport Area School Board approved a contract with security guard provider Kellington Protection Service. Last month, the board accept...

By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter   tbrown@yourmvi.com A Forward Township man who fled from officers on a motorcycle and hid in the woods is behind bars after police allegedly seized more than $21,000 o...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com When Mr. Donora — Dr. Charles Stacey — passed away nearly two years at age 90, he was still an active member of the Donora Public Library Board, even as his healt...

By the MVI Fourth-graders from Turtle Creek Elementary STEAM Academy took a trip to Elizabeth Forward recently to battle their peers in a VEX Go Competition. The students spent the day at Mount Vernon...

By Adam Brewer For the MVI The last time the California University men’s basketball team played Slippery Rock, the Vulcans posted their lowest point total in PSAC play this season. The second time aro...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com The Cal U women’s basketball team used two long runs and dominated the paint and the boards to pick up a 72-53 win over visiting Slippery Rock Saturday at the Conv...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com Both coaches – Elizabeth Forward’s Nolan Larry and Belle Vernon’s Joe Salvino – saw an eerie resemblance between Friday night’s game and last season’s section fina...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com Yough has built a strong team by relying on defensive tenacity, and it was able to impose its will in a battle of the Cougars during Friday night’s 52-26 win at Charle...

By ADAM BREWER MVI Sports Whether you remember Wilt Chamberlain’s 100-point game in 1962 or even Kobe Bryant’s 81-point effort in 2006, some scoring records are indescribable. Monessen’s Lorenzo Gardn...

Charleroi Elementary Center hosted a grades 3-5 date night Friday for students to bring a special person for dancing, photos, food and fun. Carson Colditz brought his mother, Dena; Dominic Shemansky b...

By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter   tbrown@yourmvi.com Valentine’s Day will be extra sweet this year for members of the Wedding Cookie Table Community as a national spotlight is cast on a tradition they...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Donora Council will hold a special meeting Monday to approve the final version of its 2024 budget after it was reopened and revised last month. The borough’s new ...

By MATT PETRAS For the MVI For a new project based on the concept of “civic empathy,” two Donora historians could have focused on the borough’s historic smog disaster — but they figured that would be ...