By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com After a tumultuous path navigating through the difficulties and complexities of mental illness, Belle Vernon author Jennifer Silbaugh decided to tell her story of self...

By Michael Richter mrichter@yourmvi.com When visitors walk into the Jacob Wall Pavilion at Renziehausen Park over the next few days, they will be greeted by a dazzling display of decorated Christmas t...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Donora Council was unable to hold its scheduled budget meeting Thursday night because finance Chairman Gib Szakal left before it began.   Donora advertised that c...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The Mon Valley Alliance Foundation, in partnership with cfsbank, awarded a $1,000 Town-2-Town Mini Grant to the Daisytown Community Center. The center was founded in...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com More concern was expressed by residents over the Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill and its repeated violations during the Rostraver Township commissioners meeting Wednesd...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Leadership of the Charleroi Area School Board will remain the same next year. During Tuesday’s annual reorganization meeting, the board reappointed its directors to ...

PennDOT partnered with the Highway Safety Network and AAA East Central to host a Yellow Dot Clinic Wednesday at the Monessen Center for Active Adults. The Yellow Dot program is designed to assist citi...

The Festival of Trees, presented by the City of McKeesport and the McKeesport Recreation Board, will run from noon to 8 p.m. today through Monday. Above, Lolita Garcia, executive committee member of t...

By Michael Richter mrichter@yourmvi.com As part of the city’s preliminary budget for 2024, McKeesport property owners will experience an increase in taxes, which will “solely” go towards investing mor...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com The Rostraver Township Board of Commissioners will hold a special meeting 6 p.m. Dec. 28 to vote on the 2024 budget and tax levy. The meeting was announced during Wedn...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Charleroi Council will consider ways to help Rostraver West Newton Emergency Services (RWNES) as the agency continues to face to staffing, equipment and funding hurd...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com About $70 million in funding for public libraries is being held up in Harrisburg by state legislators in the House and Senate wrestling over language in the bills...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com The Belle Vernon Area School Board selected Jason Gross to return to the board to fill a two-year vacancy during Tuesday night’s combined work session and voting meeti...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Carroll Township supervisors have passed a budget that will hold the line on taxes in 2024. During a business meeting Tuesday morning, supervisors Thomas Rapp, Kenne...

The Monessen Downtown Fire Department hosted a Stuff a Fire Truck toy drive to benefit the Monessen Family Center. Loading donated toys onto the truck Tuesday evening were firefighters Jordan Moux and...

By Bill Schackner Trib Total Media PennWest University interim President Lorraine “Laurie” Bernotsky is one vote away from being named the next president of West Chester University in suburban Philade...

Caleesi Thompson, 4, of Monessen, tells Santa and Mrs. Claus about the dollhouse she’s hoping to find under the tree this Christmas during Monday’s Light-Up Night at Penn Highlands Mon Valley.  To pur...

By Michael Richter mrichter@yourmvi.com The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania has filed a lawsuit on behalf of Take Action Advocacy Group against the City of McKeesport, McKeesport Police...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com Elizabeth Township commissioners approved a 2024 general fund and sanitary budget Monday that doesn’t include a tax increase.   The township has now kept the same tax ...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com There will be a new vice president helping to lead the Monessen School Board in 2024.   During a reorganization meeting Monday, directors agreed that Doreen Smith wi...