By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Last month, a local fuel and energy group sold ownership shares to an employee stock ownership plan, or ESOP. After nearly a century of being privately owned, G...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a 16-year-old Monessen resident who is accused of shooting his friend and football teammate, Amari Altomore, in the ci...

By STEPHANIE RITENBAUGH Trib Total Media Trulieve, a medical marijuana company with locations throughout Pennsylvania, is laying off an unspecified number of people at its growing facility in McKeespo...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Charleroi Area Elementary students are on their way to developing their own personal libraries.   Students in the elementary center were given free books by the Coug...

By Anna Lisa Haughwout For the MVI Michelle Tomczyk, looking more like a fashion model than a farmer, attacked the weeds at the McKeesport Garden Club with a vengeance worthy of an avid gardener. Tomc...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Charleroi was beaming with pride Wednesday at the newly opened Dee’s Event Center on McKean Avenue, as community leaders gathered to make a historic announcement. Th...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Charleroi Borough Council doesn’t frequently agree on anything, but council members surprised those in the audience Wednesday night by unanimously deciding to table ...

Alexander Forrest, an eighth-grader in the South Allegheny School District, creates a stop-motion animated movie using the Stop Motion App in the middle school’s newly created innovative technology cl...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A Westmoreland County judge on Wednesday declined to unseal court records related to a fatal shooting that occurred in early November in Rostraver Township. Keven Van ...

By MAX ROBINETTE mrobinette@yourmvi.com Monongahela council approved a five-year police contract at Wednesday’s meeting. Council members agreed to the deal with Teamsters Local 205 that runs from 2023...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Members of the Corning/World Kitchen Retirees Association are more than just former co-workers — they are family. On Tuesday, gathered around a small, but festive, t...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com One juvenile is dead and another is in critical condition after a double-shooting Tuesday afternoon outside of a gas station/convenience store on Versailles Avenue in ...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com North Belle Vernon council approved the 2023 budget, heard a complaint about sewer payments and spoke about the upcoming parade for the state champion Belle Ver...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com Monessen’s Ethel Peshok maintains an extremely grateful attitude towards life as she approaches her 100th birthday on Monday. The lifelong Monessen native — minus just...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Donora police arrested a wanted man early Tuesday after he attempted to evade a traffic stop and crashed his vehicle along the ramp to the Stan Musial Bridge. O...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Deputies from the Allegheny Sheriff’s Office partnered with McKeesport and North Versailles police departments Monday for the annual “Shop with a Cop” at Walmar...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com There were a couple of common themes Monday night during a forum on gun violence in the McKeesport area.   At least two of the panelists, McKeesport Mayor Michael Cher...

By JOHN RECTENWALD jrectenwald@yourmvi.com The timing of Pennsylvania American Water’s $138 million revenue increase settlement could be especially troubling for municipalities that own sewage systems...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Joe Klimchak, in-game host for the Pittsburgh Pirates, is just an ordinary guy who happened to land an extraordinary dream job.   Klimchak visited Monessen High Scho...

By Jeff Himler Trib Total Media Someone who purchased a Mega Millions lottery ticket in Rostraver Township is $1 million richer. A ticket sold at the Shop ‘n Save supermarket at Willowbrook Plaza matc...