By RICH CHOLODOFSKY Trib Total Media More than 500 Westmoreland County courthouse and nursing home employees ratified a union contract Monday. Approval of the three-year deal averted a strike that wou...

By JIM BUSCH For the MVI Public officials and other speakers voiced their opposition to a proposed rate hike by Pennsylvania American Water Company at a public hearing Monday in Port Vue. Emily DeVoe,...

By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter tbrown@yourmvi.com Residents of all ages will get a bit chilly this weekend for a good cause at the 11th annual Frosty Frolic. A major fundraiser for the California Are...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com While their faces are mostly serious, there’s a hint of smirk or two as the women of the Donora Wire Works Nail Mill in 1928 sit in their dirty work dresses and s...

By TAYLOR BROWN   Senior Reporter   tbrown@yourmvi.com Pennsylvania’s updated Dog Law took effect last week to increase public safety in communities, add consumer protections for those who buy or adop...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com State Sen. Camera Bartolotta joined a bipartisan effort this week to talk about a bill that would work along with legislation she introduced to modernize the prof...

By Michael Richter mrichter@yourmvi.com PennDOT recently announced the completion of Pennsylvania’s first federally funded electric vehicle station, with others planned to be constructed in the wester...

By Michael Richter mrichter@yourmvi.com A vacant house on Reed Avenue in Monessen collapsed Friday morning.   There were no reported injuries, and the house had been vacant for an indeterminate amount...

By Justin Vellucci   Trib Total Media A man charged with killing a 15-year-old girl when he crashed into her school van while drag racing in Dravosburg will stand trial following a preliminary hearing...

By Michael Richter mrichter@yourmvi.com Republican leaders n the Pennsylvania Senate expressed their support Friday for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s controversial approach to preventing illegal immigratio...

By PATRICK VARINE   Trib Total Media U.S. Steel officials have entered into a consent decree with the Allegheny County Health Department and two environmental groups to address a 2018 fire at its Clai...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com A head-on crash closed the Mansfield Bridge, which connects Glassport and Dravosburg over the Monongahela River, in both directions for several hours Friday after...

Charleroi Area High School basketball player McKenna “Boots” DeUnger stopped by to see her grandfather, Gary DeUnger, at Thursday’s game against Waynesburg.   To purchase this photo and more from our ...

By John J. Turanin For the MVI Private Ross Naccarato and his colleagues probably didn’t know what hit them on the morning of Jan. 26, 1944. Operation Shingle, the Allied amphibious landings at Anzio,...

By Michael Richter mrichter@yourmvi.com For the first time in quite a while, the Monessen Recreation Board held a meeting last week. Mayor Ron Mozer referred to the gathering as “very productive, posi...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Last year, Donora council proposed an ordinance that would regulate dangerous structures in the borough and this year, it might just get done. Councilman Fred Ber...

By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter tbrown@yourmvi.com An upcoming concert hosted by the Mon Valley Academy for the Arts has changed its venue.   Because of high demand, Gary Antol, accompanied by an open...

Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent Charleroi Area High School senior cheerleaders Bella Gorby, Laney Susick and Dominique Rawls snapped a selfie during halftime of the varsity boys basketball gam...

By Rich Cholodofsky Trib Total Media Mayors in two Westmoreland County communities said demolition of dozens of dilapidated structures has improved the health and safety of local residents and set the...

For the MVI Former Washington County commissioner and soon-to-be President/CEO of City Mission, Diana Irey Vaughan, recently ran seven races over seven days on two separate coasts for a total of 71 mi...