Among elites across the ideological spectrum, there’s one point of unifying agreement: Americans are bitterly divided. What if that’s wrong? What if elites are the ones who are bitterly divided while ...

Donations will be accepted starting Monday to help out the Salvation Army. The Mon Valley Independent’s Christmas Cheer Club will kick off again Monday, continuing a decades-long tradition of fulfilli...

The popular event in Elizabeth Township raises money to aid families in area school districts. In what has become an annual spectacle for residents in the Elizabeth Forward area, the Zombek family Chr...

Visitors will notice some changes to Steelton when this year’s exhibition opens Saturday. The fastest growing “town” in the Mon Valley can’t be found on a map. But, the fictitious town known as Steelt...

The blaze also damaged a neighboring house belonging to the owner’s sister. Members of the same family living in two separate households were displaced Wednesday by an intense fire in Allenport. Stock...

The group provided about 140 free takeout Thanksgiving dinners for local residents. Elizabeth’s Guardian Angels held their annual free Thanksgiving takeout this week for around 140 families in need li...

Created 15 years ago by American Express, Small Business Saturday is held the Saturday after Thanksgiving to generate support for locally owned stores. Small businesses are the heart and soul of local...

City officials are working with a consulting firm in Pittsburgh to bring new life to the business district. Monessen is working with a consulting group to develop an entire block in the downtown area....

The arrangements with Carlow University and Pitt-Greensburg will each last for five years. The Belle Vernon Area school board voted to enter into two student teaching programs with local universities ...

Donald Trump has proposed many policies based on faulty assumptions and even outright lies. One of his most misleading falsehoods is his virulent denunciation of immigration. Repeatedly, he’s vowed to...

TODAY IS CONSIDERED the most important shopping day of the year, but tomorrow is equally vital for many Mon Valley businesses. After the Black Friday hysteria dies down, there will be many great barga...

This Thanksgiving, some families are thankful that someone else will do the cooking. Instead of spending hours in the store looking for canned pumpkin or fresh cranberries only to find the shelves emp...

The Matt Helon Farm in Washington Township has been in operation for nearly 70 years. Vicki and Mike Olexa have spent nearly half of the year preparing for Thanksgiving on the family’s farm in Washing...

The isolated Christmas tree is the subject of the latest children’s book by Lori VanKirk Schue. A notable Christmas Tree that sits along Route 201 in Rostraver Township will be getting its very own ch...

No injuries were reported in the early-morning blaze. By the MVI A Tuesday morning fire damaged a McKeesport building that houses a tattoo shop and apartments. Firefighters responded to Versailles Ave...

Monessen firefighters responded to a fire shortly before 9:30 p.m. Tuesday n the 400 block of Reed Avenue for a church fire. Municipal Fire Chief Delmar Hepple  no one was in the building, and said it...

More work is going to be done on the budget proposal before the final vote is taken Dec. 18. Elizabeth council had further discussions about its 2025 budget proposal at Tuesday’s meeting. Council memb...

A McKeesport man accused of shooting another in the face during an alleged road rage incident on the Parkway West this summer will remain in jail pending trial. Rashawn Hall, 22, asked the court earli...

The editorial department of the Mon Valley Independent encourages letters to the editor. Letters must be no more than 500 words, must be in good taste and must include the author’s name, town of resid...

It seems like years, but it was just one month ago that the media effort to stop President-elect Donald Trump reached its final, most desperate phase in the closing days of the 2024 campaign. The Atla...