Monessen and California Area superintendents released statements regarding unauthorized access through PowerSchool. Several Mon Valley school districts have been impacted by a cybersecurity breach of ...

“Our commitment to ABM is firm, but again, our responsibility to the taxpayers prevails. (This) is the biggest expenditure this school district will have made in over 20 years probably.” Directors wil...

Mayor Craig Ambrose said ProWaste LLC has been “unbelievable” in its first two weeks on the job. While they are only two weeks into a new garbage contract, leaders in North Belle Vernon are already se...

The Edward V. Monaghan Charitable Youth Foundation recently made a donation to Michael’s Ovation, a local nonprofit organization that was formed to honor the memory of the late Michael Shaffer, a stud...

For the MVI The Westmoreland County Bureau of Parks and Recreation is offering grants to nonprofit organizations to support arts-related projects and activities that will benefit Westmoreland County r...

IS THE FUTURE OF U.S. STEEL at a fork in the road? More than a week after blocking the almost $15 billion sale of U.S. Steel to Japanese-based Nippon Steel, President Joe Biden’s administration made a...

President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced on Friday in the bookkeeping case brought against him by Alvin Bragg, the elected Democratic district attorney of Manhattan. The sentence was effectively not...

To the Editor: The following is a sonnet written in 1883 by Emma Lazarus. It eventually was cast in bronze and in 1903 was mounted on a pedestal on the lower level of the Statue of Liberty. The full t...

A man was found asleep in his Red Dodge Ram 1500 in Smithton by Belle Vernon State Police in December. Ronald Robert Hazlett, 53, of Export, Pa., was charged with DUI, disorderly conduct, an expired v...

Construction is expected to be completed in 2027. Pennsylvania Western University hosted an official groundbreaking Monday morning for a new building on the California campus. University, state and lo...

A student who was recently treated for tuberculosis has been cleared to return to school. A Charleroi Area High School student was isolated and sent home from school Monday as a precautionary measure ...

The company’s CEO plans to make another offer if the Nippon Steel sale doesn’t get approval. Cleveland-Cliffs CEO Lourenco Goncalves said Monday his company is ready to make another offer for U.S. Ste...

I hope everyone enjoyed their Christmas season with family and loved ones. That was a fast 2024. On to 2025. Every new year, we all seem to have a fresh start in mind. A way to set goals for the year,...

The change could be made at council’s Feb. 10 session. White Oak Solicitor Ashley Puchalski started discussions at Monday’s council workshop meeting for a possible recreation advisory committee. The b...

Mayor Ron Mozer would like to bring in Billy Price as the first performer. Monessen is considering holding concerts at the amphitheater in City Park. During Thursday’s work session, Mayor Ron Mozer me...

Some of them may wind up at the company’s New Stanton warehouse. Online retailer Amazon said Monday it will displace 432 of 500 workers at its Findlay sorting center in March as the company makes more...

Decreased funding and increased food prices led Southwestern Pa. Area Agency on Aging, Inc. to implement a waiting system for new requests. For the MVI Starting Wednesday, Southwestern PA Area Agency ...

If you want to hang out or use the restroom at Starbucks, you’re going to have to buy something. Starbucks on Monday said it was reversing a policy that invited everyone into its stores. A new code of...

Consider these European and American binaries. On December 20, 2024, a terrorist, Taleb Al-Abdul Mohsen, rammed his SUV into a Christmas crowd in Magdeburg, Germany. He killed six pedestrians and inju...

“We poured everything” into that house. Fran from Altadena was standing outside the remains of her home, destroyed by the most recent California fires, speaking to a reporter. “I don’t even know what ...