By ADAM BREWER MVI Sports The Monessen boys’ basketball team was making its 43rd consecutive trip to the playoffs Friday night. And Coach Dan Bosnic knew that there are no easy games in the postseason...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com Serra Catholic had no issues ending No. 14-seed Brentwood’s season Friday night, dialing long distance early and often en route to an easy 59-23 victory in a WPIAL...

Members of the California Volunteer Fire Department staffed their kitchen during the annual fish fry fundraiser Friday afternoon. From left are junior firefighters Logan Hartley and Parker Griffin, fi...

By John J. Turanin For the MVI When John Matola Jr. joined the U.S. Army in 1937, he may have been seeking adventure beyond his hometown of Monessen. Instead, he was heading into a three-year nightmar...

By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter tbrown@yourmvi.com It’s been a long time since Charleroi has employed a designated full-time code enforcement officer — but after a year and a half, someone has stepped...

By Michael Richter mrichter@yourmvi.com White Oak officials discussed options for funding a pollutant reduction plan in order to make progress on the proposed stream bank stabilization of Long Run and...

By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter tbrown@yourmvi.com School districts can benefit from grants available this year through the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency’s school safety grant progr...

A. Patricia Sholtis Behanna, 97, of Rostraver Township, passed away peacefully on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. Born in Rostraver Township on Feb. 27, 1926, she was the daughter of the late George and Mary...

Harry James Bennett III, 73, of Coal Center, died Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024. Born in McKeesport on April 3, 1950, he was the son of the late Harry James Bennett Jr. and Dorothy V. Webster Bennett. Jim ...

Daniel “Dan” James Delsandro, 53, of Rostraver Township, passed away on Monday, Feb. 12, 2024, from a sudden illness. Dan was born on July 29, 1970, to parents John Richard Delsandro and the late Caro...

Mary Beth Sciore Secleter, 63, of Belle Vernon, passed away Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024, at AHN Jefferson Hospital in Jefferson Hills. Born Nov. 15, 1960, in North Charleroi, she was the daughter of the l...

By JEREMY SELLEW jsellew@yourmvi.com The No. 3-seed Serra Catholic girls basketball team gets their WPIAL championship hunt underway tonight when they host No. 14 Brentwood for a 7 p.m. start in a Cla...

By JEFF OLIVER MVI Sports If you listen to Belle Vernon coach Joe Salvino and South Allegheny coach Tony DiCenzo talk about their WPIAL Class 4A playoff game, it sounds like they drew up their game pl...

PennWest California University athletic trainer Mary Kathryn Schickel of Belle Vernon tapes the ankle of Nina Shaw, a freshman on the women’s basketball team, Thursday in the Convocation Center. Natio...

By Liam Belan lbelan@yourmvi.com When Elizabeth Forward and Ringgold took to their home ice at cfsbank Event Center Thursday night looking to get a big win over a rival, it was the Rams that dominated...

By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter tbrown@yourmvi.com After weeks of having more questions than answers, Washington County residents have finally learned details surrounding a cyberattack that nearly shu...

By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter tbrown@yourmvi.com Washington County Commissioners unanimously approved 50 recommended projects Thursday to receive Local Share Account funding.   LSA funds are generat...

By Michael Richter mrichter@yourmvi.com Monessen Middle/High School was evacuated in the early afternoon Thursday after a malfunctioning furnace motor in the building caused smoke to fill up a classro...

By Rich Cholodofsky Trib Total Media Prosecutors in Westmoreland County must turn over evidence to defense attorneys for a Philadelphia man charged with orchestrating a murder-for-hire plot. Common Pl...