By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Third, fourth and fifth graders at Charleroi Elementary Center know how to cut a rug. The school hosted its first Valentine’s Day Date Night dance Friday. Sons ...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Declan Blair is a word whiz.   An eighth-grader at the Charleroi Area Middle School, he recently became the third student in the school’s history to win the spelling...

With temperatures at nearly 70 degrees Thursday afternoon, KayAleah Long, 10, of Monessen, joined her stepmother, Tina Hess, for a walk in Monessen City Park and paused for a moment to demonstrate her...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Surrounded by a large group of law enforcement — including multiple McKeesport police officers — the man accused of shooting two city officers was taken into custody T...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com A water main on Fourth Street in Monongahela broke again Thursday, just three weeks after the same line burst and flooded multiple local businesses. Witnesses a...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Monessen council approved a resolution last night that will mandate and organize the city’s repayment of funds that were improperly transferred out of the line us...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Donora council hired a bookkeeper Thursday, continuing to fill borough building positions after months of being short staffed. Council members approved Kelli Ke...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Hundreds of people who were gathered at Renziehausen Park for a candlelight vigil erupted with cheers and applause Wednesday night when a man called out that police Of...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The Superior Court of Pennsylvania has ruled that dockets related to the case against a man accused in connection with a November homicide in Rostraver Township m...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com After months of hearings and hours of testimony, the Rostraver Township Zoning Hearing board unanimously voted to deny a special request from Olympus Energy requesting...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Donora’s civil service commission held a second hearing Wednesday to determine if former police superintendent Jim Brice should be reinstated. Council fired Bri...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com As the General Assembly heads into the 2023-24 budget season, there is work to be done – particularly when it comes to funding public schools. A Pennsylvania judge r...

Charleroi Elementary Center held an assembly Tuesday morning for grades 3-5 as cartoonist Duane Abel brought his message of “Draw Your Destiny” to the students. Fifth-grader Arabella Davis receives an...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Following the shooting of two officers on Monday, messages and gestures of condolence continued to flood the McKeesport Police Department on Tuesday. Elected officials...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Democrats claimed control of the Pennsylvania House by sweeping three special elections Tuesday in Allegheny County. Democratic campaign strategists had been optimisti...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The Mon Valley Academy for the Arts has a new home in Brownsville.   Founded in 2015 by Mark Smith, the late former state Rep. Peter J. Daley and late maestro Joe Ca...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com A Monessen High School graduate is looking to honor some of the school’s most distinguished alumni in the form of an annual Wall of Fame red carpet event. Sarah Graby-...

By MAX ROBINETTE mrobinette@yourmvi.com McKeesport police Officer Sean Sluganski was fatally shot Monday afternoon while responding to a domestic disturbance. Another officer, Charles “Chuck” Thomas, ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A Mon Valley city is mourning after one McKeesport police officer was shot and killed while on duty Monday afternoon, and another officer was sent to the hospital with...

By PAULA REED WARD Trib Total Media Allegheny County police late Monday filed homicide and related charges against a man accused of killing one McKeesport officer and wounding another in an afternoon ...