By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com South Allegheny Middle and High School students and adults in the community were treated to a day of self care, mental health and employment resources Wednesday mornin...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Friday afternoons are pretty special in the Charleroi Area School District — and not just because everyone is ready for the weekend.   Each Friday, eligible students...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com In light of some hardships within the Belle Vernon Area School District during the school year, groups of elementary students were treated to a unique form of animal-b...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Property owners in the Charleroi Area School District will see a slight tax increase next year. On Tuesday, school board directors passed a $28.9 million budget for ...

By MAX ROBINETTE mrobinette@yourmvi.com Monongahela’s active transportation planning committee kept rolling along Monday with an open meeting at the city fire hall. Local residents and officials joine...

By MAX ROBINETTE mrobinette@yourmvi.com Belle Vernon Area Middle School student winners and participants of Pennsylvania’s National History Day competition were honored by the district Monday. Several...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Authorities could temporarily seize firearms and background checks would be expanded for gun buyers, under two bills passed Monday in the Pennsylvania House of Re...

Five-year-old Moses Baluch of Rostraver Township plays with his family’s Pomeranian dog, Lilly, along the Youghiogheny River at Cedar Creek Park in Rostraver Township Monday afternoon. He was visiting...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Belle Vernon Area school directors approved the 2023-24 preliminary budget Monday in a split vote. To read the rest of the story, please see a copy of Tuesday’s...

Staff and wire reports Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission officials broke ground Monday on the next phase of the Mon/Fayette Expressway, a $214 million contract for a three-mile section from Route 51 to...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The California Area School District is one of only six school districts across the country to be recognized as a 2023 Spring “Lighthouse System.”   To read the rest ...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Sometimes it’s OK to be a little trashy. Nearly 60 residents from across the Mon Valley headed to the Monongahela Aquatorium on Sunday for the third annual Trash Bas...

Multiple departments responded to a fire Saturday at the former Granville Elementary School in California. The school was empty at the time of the blaze, which is currently under investigation. Firefi...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Monessen City Council will sell the former city hall building that sits across the courtyard from the current municipal building, and a report from the appraiser ...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com For the first time in nearly 40 years, there will soon be new residential construction in Charleroi.   Ahmed Jasim, the owner of Black Lotus Group, has rehabbed two ...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com The Board of the Allegheny Regional Asset District (RAD) voted Thursday to grant $3.8 million to five Mon Valley libraries. The first-of-their-kind grants will ...

On Saturday, volunteers from Allegheny CleanWays started their cleanup of the Monongahela River in Donora. The nonprofit joined with local residents and the Donora Historical Society and Smog Museum t...

Jaxson Buzzo, 3, and his grandmother, Carolyn Humberson of Bruceton Mills, W.Va., got a closeup look at draft mules Jake and Kat, owned by Doc and Wanda Sherry of Farmington, during a wagon train lunc...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Sam McCrossin isn’t ready to permanently close his docks just yet — although they won’t be open this season.   McCrossin’s Landing would normally be welcoming boater...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Monessen School Board has passed a preliminary budget, but hasn’t decided if real estate taxes will increase or stay the same. The current draft of the budget cal...