By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter   tbrown@yourmvi.com Students in the Belle Vernon Area School District will soon have a new option for health care while at school. On Monday, the BVA school board appr...

Road crews responded to a large sinkhole on Versailles Avenue in McKeesport that opened up sometime Tuesday. According to the City of McKeesport Mayor’s Office Facebook page, Versailles Avenue is clos...

By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter   tbrown@yourmvi.com A 31-year-old Pittsburgh man died after being shot in Charleroi late Monday.   Washington County Coroner Tim Warco said Tev Jerod Mungo was pronoun...

By Sarah Pellis spellis@yourmvi.com A haven and place for camaraderie for the veterans community in Belle Vernon is in dire straits. A post on the The Belle Vernon American Legion - Post #659’s Facebo...

By Justin Vellucci Trib Total Media Allegheny County officials on Monday hit North America’s largest coke-manufacturing facility — which is also the county’s top source of air pollution — with a $1.9 ...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com A group of students was determined to stage a fight last fall at Monessen High School, and the district has been looking creative solutions ever since. The studen...

By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter tbrown@yourmvi.com Students were the highlight of Monday night’s Belle Vernon Area school board meeting. Before directors got down to official business, they took time ...

Many Mon Valley residents were outside enjoying the warm temperatures Monday afternoon. Marcus Webster and Nicole Anderson were walking in Monessen’s City Park just before sunset with Nicole’s daughte...

The McKeesport chapter of the NAACP hosted its annual Pancake Breakfast Saturday at McKeesport Presbyterian Church on Versailles Avenue. Above, Efrem Butler, Samantha Glenn, Lolita Garcia and Wilhemen...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Donora has made a commitment to blight removal and started out 2024 by forming a blight advisory board that has a serious goal in mind — to go after any grant dol...

By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter tbrown@yourmvi.com Students in the Charleroi Area School District will have new opportunities next year. The school board recently approved three new courses   for 2024...

Rev. Paul Waite of St. Paul AME Church McKeesport and Larry Bridges of McKeesport worked at the McKeesport food bank on Saturday. The food bank is held every other week, and a meal for those seeking a...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The Mon Valley lost one of its most dedicated first responders when paramedic supervisor Matthew Smelser died in the line of duty Jan. 5, 2020, but his friends an...

From left, Belle Vernon Volunteer Fire Company #2 Captain Zach Zupan, First Captain Bill Batton, Engineer Amanda Zupan and Winnie Wassilchalk pose for a photo in the company’s kitchen during the fish ...

By Bill Schackner Trib Total Media The Biden administration this week canceled $1.2 billion in student debt nationwide. In Pennsylvania, that means 5,600 borrowers with a total of $45.1 million in deb...

By Sarah Pellis spellis@yourmvi.com The Rostraver Township Historical Society will celebrate the role of coal mining in the Mon Valley’s history with an upcoming exhibit. The historical society recent...

Three Monessen police officers were promoted and one new officer was hired during a city council meeting Thursday. Officers Chris Gray, Brian Mickens, and James Stoken were each promoted to sergeant a...

By Sarah Pellis spellis@yourmvi.com Monongahela is buzzing about the impending closure of one of its busiest downtown businesses in a few weeks for a major renovation project. According to a sign on t...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Last night, Monessen Mayor Ron Mozer gave a “State of the City” address that updated residents and taxpayers on the progress that’s been made in the first two yea...

By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter   tbrown@yourmvi.com When the weather gets warm, school lets out and the sun doesn’t set until late at night, Chess Park is the perfect place to be on a Friday. This ye...