By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com The controversial onsite leachate treatment and evaporation system that the Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill hopes to install received a boost Wednesday when the state’s...

By Michael Richter mrichter@yourmvi.com McKeesport Area School Board accepted the resignation of the district’s security guard provider, Homeland Intelligence Protective Services, at Thursday’s meetin...

Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent Ringgold High School students Isabella Schnupp, Addison Jenkins, Brynn Davis and Morgan Bell cheered on the Ringgold wrestlers as they took on Norwin on Wednesd...

By the MVI A Mon Valley political fixture is stepping down from his state Senate seat, but he insists it won’t lead to a seat change in his district. State Sen. Jim Brewster, D-McKeesport, said Wednes...

By KRISTIE LINDEN Assistant Editor klinden@yourmvi.com Donora Council members wonder if the stained-glass windows of a church the borough owns are valuable or not. The long-vacant church, which sits a...

By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter tbrown@yourmvi.com During the first official voting meeting of the year, Charleroi council will have new leaders for the borough’s various committees. During Wednesday’...

By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter tbrown@yourmvi.com A Mon Valley teen has been named to the prestigious Junior Achievement of Western Pennsylvania’s “18 Under Eighteen” Class of 2024. Presented by EQT,...

Vinnie Shemansky, 6, and his brother Dominic, 9, of Dunlevy helped pick up rubber ducks off the court at Belle Vernon Area High School following a duck toss event at halftime of Tuesday’s basketball g...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com White Oak Borough Council will consider reopening its 2024 budget at Monday’s meeting to possibly add a slight tax increase in order to better balance the borough’s fi...

By Michael Richter mrichter@yourmvi.com For nearly a year, Beth Roth has searched for her son, looking anywhere she thought he could possibly be, hanging missing person signs and talking to anybody wh...

By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter tbrown@yourmvi.com North Belle Vernon council is on the lookout for a second interested person to fill a new vacancy on council. Councilwoman Barbara Day resigned unexp...

Staff and wire reports The Mon Valley woke up to snow and rain Tuesday, creating slippery roads and prompting area school districts to impose two-hour delays and cancellations.   The Monessen Public S...

From left, Joanna, 6, Ruth, 9, and Abel Hovanec, 4, of Washington, Pa., came to the Belle Vernon Area High School swimming meet Monday evening to cheer for their cousins, Emily and Grace Newbould. To ...

By TAYLOR BROWN Senior Reporter tbrown@yourmvi.com Change was inevitably coming to the Forward Township board of supervisors after the election of Dave Levdansky in November. After the township’s reor...

By MATT PETRAS For the MVI Dottie Atkins has always loved building.   “It’s stupid how much joy it brings me to just cut a random piece of metal or wood,” the 16 year-old said. “I don’t know what’s so...

By Michael Richter mrichter@yourmvi.com This year’s Mid Mon Valley Model Railroad Club train show could wind up being one of its largest in history.   The club expects around 115 vendor tables to be o...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com As Donora continues to try to unravel the correct start and stop dates of the borough’s seat on the Mid Mon Valley Transit Authority, council members want to take...

By KRISTIE LINDEN Assistant Editor klinden@yourmvi.com The region braced for a winter storm Saturday, and the Mon Valley got between a half-inch and 3 inches of snow. According to the National Weather...

By TAYLOR BROWN   Senior Reporter   tbrown@yourmvi.com Firefighters from several Mon Valley communities participated in a live burn training   session Saturday along Route 837 in Carroll Township. Car...

By Michael Richter mrichter@yourmvi.com Just six days after its crowdfunding campaign began, an upcoming horror film by a McKeesport filmmaker accumulated more than $25,000.   Mark Cantu’s “Grind” sur...