Monessen, North Belle Vernon and Rostraver Township also received a slice of the $19 million in Local Share Account revenue. Several community projects in the Mon Valley will benefit from 2024 Local S...

Overwhelmed by the outpouring of support after a fire damaged their home last week, the Hewitt family of Forward Township wants to help other families. A Forward Township family displaced after a fire...

Council is working with an architectural firm for a proposed community center where the former West Mifflin Middle School once was. West Mifflin Borough Council is hoping to move ahead with plans for ...

January is School Board Appreciation Month. With January being School Board Appreciation Month, Elizabeth Forward Superintendent Keith Konyk used Wednesday night’s voting meeting as an opportunity to ...

The Ringgold School Board approved the issuance of bonds to not exceed $10 million to fund the projects. Ringgold is preparing to make renovations to Joe Montana Stadium and the Ginger Hill transporta...

Here’s what you’ll need to get your Pennsylvania driver’s license updated to meet the new federal security standards. By Staff and Wire reports The Real ID deadline is coming in a few short months, so...

Westmoreland County is one of 10 counties in Pennsylvania, along with Allegheny and Beaver, that oversees inspection and licensing of scanning devices. Westmoreland County’s department that ensures lo...

By FARNOUSH AMIRI AND MATTHEW LEE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Florida Sen. Marco Rubio on Wednesday painted a dark vision of the consequences of America’s “unbalanced relationship” with China, ...

In January 1981, Jimmy Carter nodded politely toward Ronald Reagan as the new Republican president thanked the Democrat for his administration’s help after Reagan resoundingly defeated Carter the prev...

The new mobile health facility was unveiled Tuesday in McKeesport. Allegheny Health Network unveiled a new mobile women’s health van Tuesday morning in a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Carnegie Library of...

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...