A long-abandoned home will likely be torn down. Donora will likely have to demolish a borough-owned house on Thompson Avenue regardless of ongoing disagreements over how the property was purchased. La...

Darren Vaccaro will replace Zachary Just. The Belle Vernon Area school board approved several hirings Tuesday, including a new principal for Rostraver Elementary. Darren Vaccaro will take over after t...

Major goals for both parties fell by the wayside in Pennsylvania’s new $47.6 billion budget. By STEPHEN CARUSO, KATE HUANGPU and KATIE MEYER Spotlight PA HARRISBURG — As they wrapped up votes on Penns...

The Belle Vernon Rotary Club celebrated Presidents’ Night recently at Cedar Creek Park in Rostraver Township. Outgoing President Brian Mentzer was honored for an outstanding year of service, and incom...

The pools at Boyce Park, Settlers Cabin, South Park and North Park are open daily from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. A new chaperone policy at the four pools operated by Allegheny County that goes into effect ...

Ted Cruz, Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis were among Tuesday’s convention speakers. MILWAUKEE (AP) — Donald Trump was feted Tuesday at the Republican National Convention by former rivals who once leveled...

Council agreed to seek an LSA grant to post eight historical placards throughout the park. Belle Vernon has a plan to update Veterans Memorial Park to include various displays of the borough’s history...

To the Editor: If you have not seen the Grizwells cartoon in the Mon Valley Independent on July 3, the gist of the cartoon was when we become a dictatorship the immigration problem will be solved beca...

Former President Donald Trump can’t stop thinking about the way he moved his head in the split second before a gunman, intent on assassinating him, pulled the trigger during his speech in Pennsylvania...

THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A TIME when it was this important to consume the news critically. It is important to know what is happening. This is an Olympic year and an election year. There are wars raging in...

Three-year-old Connor Rozik helps his father, Washington Township Volunteer Fire Co. Chief Josh Rozik, hose down the tug of war pit on the third day of the Fayette County Firefighters Convention. To p...

Additions have been made since council expressed concerns about a severe manpower shortage last month. Donora Council has made some progress toward hiring police officers to fill its department’s rank...

Races were held Sunday for area businesses and the general public. Toy ducks filled the river on Sunday as the Monongahela Rotary Club hosted its sixth annual Rubber Duckie Derby at the Aquatorium. Do...

It will be stored at the municipal building, where it can be accessed at any time of the day. Gray Paws Sanctuary presented a donation of a pet microchip scanner to the Borough of White Oak during Mon...

The annual event was held at Butler’s Golf Course in Elizabeth Township. For the MVI More than 100 golfers and volunteers gathered recently at Butler’s Golf Course in Elizabeth Township to raise funds...

More than 1,200 people lost power in Elizabeth. By PATRICK VARINE Trib Total Media More than 850 West Penn Power customers were without electricity as of 8:45 p.m. Monday after strong isolated storms ...

Butler Memorial Hospital’s president was at a bridal shower when she found out the hospital could be treating former President Donald Trump after he was shot at a campaign rally. Karen Allen, presiden...

VIOLENCE AND DEMOCRACY cannot exist in the same arena. On Saturday, former president and GOP candidate Donald Trump was struck by a bullet as he spoke to an enthusiastic crowd of supporters in Butler ...

Leonid Brezhnev led the former Soviet Union as General Secretary of the Communist Party until 1982. But like most Russian apparatchiks who excessively smoked, drank, and gained weight, he aged prematu...

Pro-life people believe abortion to be the human rights issue of our lifetime, one with eternal stakes. With the Republican Party’s changes to its platform regarding abortion, it’s hard to believe the...