By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com Fayette City Borough council has been hard at work taking down blighted buildings recently, but Vice President Dianna Vargo says that there’s still several more that n...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Food banks in Western Pennsylvania are bracing for a surge of requests following government benefit rollbacks this month. The federal government announced in De...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Charleroi Area Superintendent Dr. Ed Zelich is developing a proposal to address attendance problems in the school district. During a business meeting Tuesday, Zelich...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com Citizens in opposition to the proposed Champion compressor station in Elizabeth Township spent the last two nights in public hearings continuing to plead their case ag...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com McKeesport was recently approved to receive $500,000 in preliminary engineering funds for repairs to the Versailles Avenue bridge. The Southwestern Pennsylvania...

First responders were called to a structure fire on Jackson Street in Monongahela just after 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. According to information on the scanner, a caller reported flames and smoke coming from ...

One-year-old Brayden Viehl was with his father, Dean Viehl of Liberty Borough, as they arrived at the field to watch South Allegheny’s season-opening baseball game against Serra Catholic Monday aftern...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com Elizabeth Township commissioners offered updates on their “preferred last line” address efforts as well as potential tree replacements for the ones that came down at t...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com North Charleroi will continue to operate with a one-person street crew, but hopefully not for much longer.   At last month’s meeting, council heard a positive report...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com White Oak council announced continuing action regarding the White Oak to South Park connector trail project at Monday’s meeting. Councilwoman Julie Opferman sai...

By PATRICK VARINE Trib Total Media A few years ago, Randy Santucci’s deer hunting season would begin at a leisurely pace once Thanksgiving was over. “People would start trickling into camp on Saturday...

Carissa McMurphy, left, leads story time for children Saturday at Monongahela Area Library as she reads from a selection of books about spring. Listening are Luca, Leo and Laney Bowker of Monongahela,...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A popular, slightly competitive and community-driven event will allow elementary students in the Belle Vernon Area School District to play with their food for a good...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com Elizabeth Township will be awarded an $862,000 Local Share Account grant from the Commonwealth Financing Authority for landslide and   repairs on Forest Hill Road. Sta...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The landscape of Westmoreland County’s Mon Valley municipal governments will likely look a little different next year as there are new faces throughout the local ...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com A new boutique is turning heads in Monongahela. Wool and Wick opens this Thursday, bringing curated gift cards, homemade candles, independently produced handbag...

Keystone Bakery’s Clarie Lazzari hands a shamrock-shaped cookie to Ruby Roberts, 12, as her brother Ridley, 7, and sister Rosewyn, 10, wait to eat their cookies. They are from Rostraver Township.

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com The Allegheny County District Attorney’s office announced Friday that it will pursue a death penalty conviction against the man accused of killing a Mc-Keesport...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The Charleroi Area School District and the Mon Valley chapter of the NAACP have developed a partnership with the needs of students at heart.   The program, which kic...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com Washington County Commissioners have approved projects to place internet lines in Jefferson Township, Canton Township and Taylorstown in the third phase of its broadba...