The state DEP is monitoring out-of-control fires in the Manitoba area. Smoke and haze from wildfires in Canada are again hovering over Western Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental ...

The drug store chain has shut down numerous locations, including Charleroi, Monongahela and Rostraver Township. By PAULA REED WARD TribLive Giant Eagle will take over pharmacy prescriptions from 78 Ri...

California Area and Charleroi Area students created posters with that message for the Mon Valley Opioid Coalition. Students from the California Area and Charleroi Area school districts accepted first ...

Edward Denney and Leilana Speney were recently crowned Elizabeth Forward High School’s prom king and queen. Submitted

The school board will vote on the 2025-26 budget next month. Elizabeth Forward School Board met during a special meeting this week to seek more information about the 2025-26 school year budget. During...

Graduation ceremonies are scheduled for 7 p.m. today for 182 graduates. Belle Vernon Area High School will hold its 2025 commencement 7 p.m. today at James Weir Stadium. In the event of inclement weat...

The Rotary includes communities within the Belle Vernon Area and Frazier school districts. They only added one extra word to their club’s name, but members of the newly rebranded Belle Vernon Area Rot...

Elizabeth Forward won in two categories for “Hadestown: Teen Edition.” During his tenure as executive director of Pittsburgh CLO, Charlie Gray steered the creation of the Gene Kelly Awards, which annu...

The Charthene Club of Charleroi recently announced three Charleroi Area High School seniors as the last girls of the month for this school year. Fernanda Andrade was named the March Girl of the Month....

Democratic and Republican voters in Westmoreland County nominated the same row office candidates to represent their parties in the fall general election. Republican challengers Katie Pecarchik and Joh...

Tyler Duerstein was responsible for several township projects during his year in office. At Elizabeth Township’s May workshop meeting, Junior Commissioner Tyler Duerstein was honored for his service t...

Charleroi firefighters and police responded to a rollover crash Tuesday morning in the 900 block of Lincoln Avenue. One person was taken to a local hospital. Charleroi VFD

Elected officials, city employees, veterans and community members gathered Monday for the annual service honoring Memorial Day. City of McKeesport Mayor’s Office photo

Shown during West Mifflin’s annual Memorial Day service, from left, are state Sen. Nick Pisciottano, D-West Mifflin, Maj. Gen. John R. Pippy, Pennsylvania’s 55th adjutant general and head of the Depar...

Mid-Mon Valley Shipmates Darrell Molinari is shown during the two-bell ceremony during Memorial Day services in Monongahela. See more photos on A7. Heather Hart / Mon Valley Independent

A crash on Lincoln Avenue Extension in Charleroi at old Route 71 caused the road to be closed Monday afternoon. Charleroi VFD

Sophia Smith, 11, of Monongahela and Jackson Trilli, 8, of Monessen participate in the wreath-laying ceremony at Sunday’s Memorial Day observance in Donora.  Heather Hart / For the Mon Valley Independ...

Monessen Magisterial District Judge Wayne Vlasic, a veteran, reads the names of Monessen veterans who died serving the United States from World War I through the Persian Gulf War during Monday’s servi...

Brendan Parsons was formerly a star athlete at Clairton High School. By the MVI A McKeesport man was fatally shot Sunday night at a picnic in Clairton, according to authorities. The Allegheny County M...

Rostraver Township firefighters and police were called to a multi-vehicle crash Saturday on Interstate 70 west near Exit 41. Two people were transported by Rostraver West Newton Emergency Services to ...