Tyler Bunch, 3, of Charleroi made a new friend, Landon Senitta, 2, of Monessen while playing with trucks in the dirt at Veterans Field during a Charleroi Area High School baseball game.

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com A discussion on allocating additional funds to the Donora Library led council to a conversation about remaining American Rescue Plan money during a work session...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com The Monongahela Active Transportation Committee hosted a “walk around” Thursday to brainstorm ideas for walking, biking and wheelchair accessibility upgrades in...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Days after the Westmoreland County District Attorney’s office seemed to prematurely announce the continuance of a preliminary hearing for a Rostraver murder suspe...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The new home of the Mon Valley Academy for the Arts will officially open this month.   To read the rest of the story, please see a copy of Friday’s Mon Valley Indepe...

Elizabeth Forward graduate Kailey Larcinese, who pitched for the high school girls’ softball team, brought her 4-month-old puppy “Cash” to watch the Warriors play against Belle Vernon Area High School...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmi.com McKeesport council agreed to a four-year contract with the city fire department Wednesday. The new collective bargaining agreement will run Jan. 1, 2024, through...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com A student engineering team based out of McKeesport Area High School will compete in an international robotics championship in Houston, Texas, this month. Team 1...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com Residents raised concerns about a landfill as well as speeding drivers during Rostraver Township’s business meeting Wednesday night. Kruell questioned why citizens had...

By RALPH STONE MVI Columnist “Oh, I could write a sonnet about your Easter bonnet and of the girl I’m taking to the Easter parade.” Those were the closing lyrics of Irving Berlin’s very popular tune o...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com After a tumultuous two months for the Elizabeth Forward School District and its community, an open house Tuesday night unveiled the high school to the public for the f...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com The McKeesport NAACP held its third public forum in four months Tuesday, calling for local youth outreach to reduce gun violence in the city. To read the rest o...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The Finleyville Food Pantry has found a new home in Monongahela.   To read the rest of the story, please see a copy of Wednesday’s Mon Valley Independent, call 724-3...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The Westmoreland County District Attorney’s office says the preliminary hearing for a man accused in the Nov. 5 shooting death of a Rostraver Township man has bee...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Carroll Township supervisors don’t have plans to change their regular meeting time. To read the rest of the story, please see a copy of Wednesday’s Mon Valley Indepe...

Lashawna Patterson, 4, and Jayleona Harkcom, 4, both of Charleroi, played at the Monessen Public Library before Monday’s storytime.  

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Two members of the Pagans Motorcycle Club who were convicted in 2020 in the brutal assault of a former member in 2019 have lost their appeal in state Superior Cou...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Lt. Gov. Austin Davis visited the Pennsylvania Department of General Services Monday to meet with team members from the Bureau of Diversity, Inclusion and Small Busi...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Strap on your aprons, butter your pans and fire the ovens. The Wedding Cookie Table Community will host Cookie College 2023 on May 7 at the DoubleTree Hotel, Me...

By MATT PETRAS For the MVI One day in elementary school, Olivia DeRose Behanna drew a picture of her mother’s business, Frye Funeral Home in Monongahela. The drawing had birds in a blue sky, a big bro...