By Sarah Pellis spellis@yourmvi.com Starting May 1, Allegheny County library card holders will be eligible to participate in the   Allegheny Regional Asset District’s RAD Summer Staycation program. Of...

By the MVI   This spring, volunteers and members of the American Red Cross will team up with community partners to install free smoke alarms for local families vulnerable to home fires during Sound th...

By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter tbrown@yourmvi.com Home sweet home took on more of a meaning for residents of Char House thanks to a $4.5 million renovation project. On Wednesday, local and county lea...

By Sarah Pellis spellis@yourmvi.com An Elizabeth Township family devasted over the suicide of their son is turning their grief into something positive and creating awareness in hopes of helping others...

By Matt PETRAS For the MVI Planet Roof, a small Canonsburg-based roofing business run by Mon Valley natives, recently completed two free roof jobs for the nonprofit recovery group Club Serenity, which...

By RALPH STONE MVI columnist A couple of weeks ago, my story indicated that the Milky Way caper at Janosik’s Drug Store had taught me the lesson that you just don’t take or steal something that does n...

For the MVI Smithton Mayor Christine Tutena announced that work has finished at Play Smithton, and the public is now able to enjoy the improvements. The facility is located at 105 Skyline Drive in Smi...

By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter   tbrown@yourmvi.com It appears Bud Cook will remain the Mon Valley’s voice in Harrisburg as representative for the 50th Legislative District. In Tuesday’s Republican p...

By Michael Richter mrichter@yourmvi.com Nick Pisciottano and Jen Dintini will face off in November for the 45th District seat in the state Senate after earning their parties’ nominations in landslide ...

By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter   tbrown@yourmvi.com Chris Dziados is the winner of the Democratic nomination for U.S. House in Pennsylvania’s 14th Congressional District, the Associated Press declare...

By Sarah Pellis spellis@yourmvi.com With around 35% of the vote, Democrat John Inglis earned the party’s nomination for the 38th Legislative District seat in the state House. Inglis, 37, of West Miffl...

By the MVI The Mon Valley will have several contested races in the Nov. 5 general election, but some incumbents who are seeking reelection had no competition in Tuesday’s primary. Barring any successf...

California Area School District students in Brieann Klima’s fourth grade class celebrated Earth Day in the school’s new greenhouse by preparing flowers, herbs and vegetable plants that they’ve been gr...

By Michael Richter mrichter@yourmvi.com Two men have been charged in connection with the shooting death of a Ringgold High School senior.   State police charged Karon Whitlock, 20, and Windale Barfiel...

By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter   tbrown@yourmvi.com Two names have been added to a sign leading to Veterans Memorial Field in Charleroi in honor of dedicated volunteers who keep the facility up and r...

By Sarah Pellis spellis@yourmvi.com The Belle Vernon Area school board approved preliminary budgets for the Central Westmoreland Career and Technology Center and the Westmoreland Intermediate Unit at ...

By JIM BUSCH For the MVI In 1874, Ulysses Grant was president, Levi Strauss patented his design for work pants and a group of Christians in the small country town of Belle Vernon founded a new church....

By MATT PETRAS For the MVI The annual Mutt March from the Monongahela Area Revitalization Corporation returns May 4, this year with a “Star Wars” costume contest and onsite dog adoption from Cross You...

By Sarah Pellis spellis@yourmvi.com White Oak welcomed Sarah Koenig, conservation director at the environmental nonprofit Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania, to its April 15 meeting to discuss a ...

By the MVI Bridge Educational Foundation and its donor, U.S. Steel, donated $618,000 in scholarships to help families residing near U.S. Steel’s Mon Valley operations.   School officials, scholarship ...