By KRISTIE LINDEN Assistant Editor klinden@yourmvi.com With just four members attending the meeting, Donora Council approved its final 2024 budget with no tax increase Thursday night. Council Presiden...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com White Oak Borough Council approved its 2024 general budget without any tax increase during a special meeting Thursday night. The general fund is balanced at $6,482,115...

By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter tbrown@yourmvi.com A Charleroi kindergarten student who lost her mother a few days before Christmas is being cared for by her community.   Ruth Sara Simeon, 6, arrived ...

By KRISTIE LINDEN Assistant Editor klinden@yourmvi.com A devastating fire on McKean Avenue in Donora on Christmas Eve has rocked four families, and the community has banded together to try to offer wh...

By Michael Richter mrichter@yourmvi.com Despite concerns in October of ending the year with a deficit, council announced during Thursday’s meeting that Monessen will finish in the black.   The city fi...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com The Rostraver Township Board of Commissioners had an extensive discussion with Rostraver West Newton Emergency Medical Services during Thursday night’s work session. R...

By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter tbrown@yourmvi.com Residents with warm hearts will take a chilly dip in the Monongahela River on Monday to ring in the New Year at the Glassport American Legion’s fifth...

Jeff Helsel / Mon Valley Independent Melanie Gibbons of Charleroi reads a children’s holiday book titled, “Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Sleigh” to her son, Jameson Gibbons, 4, at the Monessen Public...

By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter tbrown@yourmvi.com Charleroi High School Advanced Placement biology students will have their work recognized as model projects for other learners. The project got its s...

By the MVI Several local counties saw a decrease in crashes during the holiday weekend from last year, according to state police. State police from Troops A and B covering Westmoreland, Allegheny, Fay...

By Michael Richter mrichter@yourmvi.com Monongahela council passed the 2024 city budget at Wednesday’s meeting, including an uptick in taxes for property owners. Council raised the tax millage rate fr...

By Angela Couloumbis Spotlight PA What began in 2022 as a one-paragraph public records request has morphed into a full-blown court fight over who owns digital copies of Pennsylvania’s historical recor...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com Elizabeth Borough council unanimously approved a budget without a tax increase and an ordinance to disband the borough’s police department during Tuesday night’s meeti...

By Michael Richter mrichter@yourmvi.com A Monongahela resident is searching for her family’s cat, which has been missing since her Park Avenue home was severely damaged by fire last week.   Kimber Cre...

By JULIA FELTON Trib Total Media Pittsburgh and Allegheny County officials are encouraging residents not to let their live Christmas trees end up in a landfill after the holidays. Both the city and th...

By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter tbrown@yourmvi.com A new playground at Gallatin-Sunnyside Park in Forward Township is almost finished.   Playground equipment has been installed, and the surface is the...

By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter tbrown@yourmvi.com A Jefferson Hills man shot by police after allegedly firing shots into a bar in Monongahela over the weekend is charged with attempted homicide.   Jo...

Elves Amelia Medlen, left, and Brynn Geary pose with Santa (Nick Barron) at the Stockdale VFD and Roscoe VFC Santa Parade, which was held Saturday and traveled through Elco, Roscoe, Stockdale and Alle...

By KRISTIE LINDEN Assistant Editor klinden@yourmvi.com A fire claimed the lives of two people early Christmas Eve in the 1000 block of McKean Avenue in Donora and displaced families from at least two ...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com Many educational leaders throughout the Mon Valley are pushing the boundaries of modern academia by experimenting with the newest curriculum and resources at their dis...