By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com The Belle Vernon Area School Board selected Jason Gross to return to the board to fill a two-year vacancy during Tuesday night’s combined work session and voting meeti...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Carroll Township supervisors have passed a budget that will hold the line on taxes in 2024. During a business meeting Tuesday morning, supervisors Thomas Rapp, Kenne...

The Monessen Downtown Fire Department hosted a Stuff a Fire Truck toy drive to benefit the Monessen Family Center. Loading donated toys onto the truck Tuesday evening were firefighters Jordan Moux and...

By Bill Schackner Trib Total Media PennWest University interim President Lorraine “Laurie” Bernotsky is one vote away from being named the next president of West Chester University in suburban Philade...

Caleesi Thompson, 4, of Monessen, tells Santa and Mrs. Claus about the dollhouse she’s hoping to find under the tree this Christmas during Monday’s Light-Up Night at Penn Highlands Mon Valley.  To pur...

By Michael Richter mrichter@yourmvi.com The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania has filed a lawsuit on behalf of Take Action Advocacy Group against the City of McKeesport, McKeesport Police...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com Elizabeth Township commissioners approved a 2024 general fund and sanitary budget Monday that doesn’t include a tax increase.   The township has now kept the same tax ...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com There will be a new vice president helping to lead the Monessen School Board in 2024.   During a reorganization meeting Monday, directors agreed that Doreen Smith wi...

For the MVI Belle Vernon Area Middle School will present holiday comedies, Chestnuts Roasted: Part Two, at 7 p.m. Wednesday.   Audiences will jump start their giggles with “2020 Hindsight: A Storied C...

By Michael Richter mrichter@yourmvi.com Area residents braved harsh winds Sunday night to have a holly jolly time at Rostraver Township’s Christmas celebration. The celebration included a fire truck p...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com State Rep. Nick Pisciottano (D-West Mifflin) recently announced a new bill that would assist local small businesses against larger corporations in an evolving marketpl...

Lincoln Altemara accompanied Santa in a Monessen Downtown fire truck during the city’s Christmas parade Saturday.  To purchase this photo and more from our online photo gallery, go to our website at w...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The Allegheny County Department of Human Services continues to work to improve its plans to help those in need of shelter as the temperatures keep dropping. Last ...

By TAYLOR BROWN   tbrown@yourmvi.com Eligible organizations can apply for more than $40 million in grant funding through the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency to help reduce gun violenc...

By Michael Richter mrichter@yourmvi.com After a two-week delay, droves of people took in the sights and sounds of Merry and Bright Night to kick off the holiday season Friday in Monongahela.   Hundred...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com McKeesport’s Renziehausen Park will receive a little more than $1.3 million in 2024 operating and capital expenses from the Allegheny Regional Asset District’s re...

By Ryan Deto Trib Total Media Western Pennsylvania lawmakers were split on the vote to expel George Santos from the U.S. house on Friday. Rep. Guy Reschenthaler, R-Peters, was one of two from the Penn...

For the MVI The Carnegie of Library of McKeesport kicked off the holiday season Thursday night with a program of music and readings. About 50 people attended the event to listen to the Valentino Vasqu...

By the MVI Members of the Rotary Club of West Newton met Tuesday with state Senator Kim L. Ward, R-Hempfield Township, and local attorney Christopher Huffman in West Newton to discuss a handicap fishi...

George E. “B.J.” Johnson III, 46, of Myrtle Beach, S.C., formerly of Monongahela and Charleroi, passed away unexpectedly on Friday, Nov. 10, 2023. George was born in Monongahela on June 9, 1977, the s...