By TAYLOR BROWN   Senior Reporter   tbrown@yourmvi.com   As Serra Catholic High School senior Drew Hairston walked into school Friday, he noticed a familiar truck parked nearby.   The pickup belonging...

By TAYLOR BROWN   Senior Reporter   tbrown@yourmvi.com   After months of discussion, Charleroi has decided to opt in for at least one year to help Rostraver West Newton Emergency Services cover expens...

By Michael Richter mrichter@yourmvi.com Monessen council decided Thursday to negotiate further before hiring an animal control officer for the city, as council was upset by the two companies’ policy o...

By the MVI The West Jefferson Hills School District Foundation for Education will distribute 10 grants to district teachers totaling nearly $10,000 through the Foundation’s fundraising efforts. All WJ...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com Elizabeth Forward assistant Superintendent Mary Carole Perry offered a long list of educational updates during Wednesday night’s school board meeting. Perry mentioned ...

By KRISTIE LINDEN Assistant Editor klinden@yourmvi.com Fire departments from three counties converged on Monessen last night just before 8:30 p.m. when Alumisource crews reported a fire. Municipal fir...

By KRISTIE LINDEN Assistant Editor klinden@yourmvi.com Donora Council agreed to reopen the 2024 budget and form a finance advisory committee, though the particulars of both are still being worked out....

By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter tbrown@yourmvi.com The Charleroi Area School District will take information gathered from a recent risk and vulnerability assessment to help improve the safety of stude...

By the MVI A day after state Sen. James Brewster announced he will retire at the end of the year and not seek reelection, a local legislator is the first candidate to throw his hat into the ring. Stat...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com The controversial onsite leachate treatment and evaporation system that the Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill hopes to install received a boost Wednesday when the state’s...

By Michael Richter mrichter@yourmvi.com McKeesport Area School Board accepted the resignation of the district’s security guard provider, Homeland Intelligence Protective Services, at Thursday’s meetin...

Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent Ringgold High School students Isabella Schnupp, Addison Jenkins, Brynn Davis and Morgan Bell cheered on the Ringgold wrestlers as they took on Norwin on Wednesd...

By the MVI A Mon Valley political fixture is stepping down from his state Senate seat, but he insists it won’t lead to a seat change in his district. State Sen. Jim Brewster, D-McKeesport, said Wednes...

By KRISTIE LINDEN Assistant Editor klinden@yourmvi.com Donora Council members wonder if the stained-glass windows of a church the borough owns are valuable or not. The long-vacant church, which sits a...

By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter tbrown@yourmvi.com During the first official voting meeting of the year, Charleroi council will have new leaders for the borough’s various committees. During Wednesday’...

By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter tbrown@yourmvi.com A Mon Valley teen has been named to the prestigious Junior Achievement of Western Pennsylvania’s “18 Under Eighteen” Class of 2024. Presented by EQT,...

Vinnie Shemansky, 6, and his brother Dominic, 9, of Dunlevy helped pick up rubber ducks off the court at Belle Vernon Area High School following a duck toss event at halftime of Tuesday’s basketball g...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com White Oak Borough Council will consider reopening its 2024 budget at Monday’s meeting to possibly add a slight tax increase in order to better balance the borough’s fi...

By Michael Richter mrichter@yourmvi.com For nearly a year, Beth Roth has searched for her son, looking anywhere she thought he could possibly be, hanging missing person signs and talking to anybody wh...

By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter tbrown@yourmvi.com North Belle Vernon council is on the lookout for a second interested person to fill a new vacancy on council. Councilwoman Barbara Day resigned unexp...