By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The City of Monessen will apply for state American Rescue Program funds to wrap up expenses related to the demolition of 500 Donner Ave. earlier this year. The ci...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Lions from clubs in two local counties came together Friday night to bond over their shared passion for community service and to celebrate the holidays.   The annual “...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Jean Colbert Roberts doesn’t have a special birthday wish. For the North Charleroi native, who will turn 103 Wednesday, it’s just like any other day. She wants to ea...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Amari Altomore was more than just a friend, son, brother and teammate. He was the person who could light up a room instantaneously with his contagious smile and was ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Step inside The Jacob Woll (main) Pavilion at Renziehausen Park today, this weekend or Monday and you’ll be transported to a Christmastime wonderland. That’s because M...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Donora council discussed the suspension of a police officer during Thursday’s work session and will likely vote to overrule it at next week’s meeting. Council d...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com The Mid Mon Valley Salvation Army slides into the holidays Saturday with a community party and gift drive at the Roll ‘R’ Way skating rink in Donora. The organi...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com For the first time since 2019, the Howard Hanna Simon Chow Chow Luncheon will return today. “I’m very excited to be back,”   said Tom Simon, owner of Howard Hanna Simo...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com With winter weather upon us, the McKeesport Little Theater Juniors’ production of Disney’s “Frozen Jr.” is taking the local theater scene by (snow)storm. The show is b...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com A Monessen High School junior died Wednesday after he was shot in the city Tuesday night, according to police. Though Monessen police Chief Dave Yuhasz declined t...

By JOHN RECTENWALD jrectenwald@yourmvi.com Not every child appreciates Santa’s klutzy entrance on Christmas Eve or the chaotic mall settings where he listens to the naughty and nice. Children who are ...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Fallowfield residents will likely not face a tax increase next year. The township’s proposed 2023 spending plan, which is a little over $2 million as it stands, keep...

For the MVI Gene Doria and Don Yoder celebrated 150 years of life recently — 80 and 70, respectively — and decided to throw a birthday bash to honor their milestones with family and friends. Gene turn...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Renziehausen Park in McKeesport on Tuesday was “beginning to look a lot like Christmas.” The city and its recreation board kicked off a two-day tree-decorating spree i...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The mass demolitions that are coming Monessen’s way courtesy of Westmoreland County’s decision to spend a chunk of its American Rescue Program dollars on blight r...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Last week, three local newspapers — with representation from the Virginia-based Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press — asked a Westmoreland County judge to con...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com The daughter of a Dunlevy couple has started a GoFundMe account for her mother after losing her father and her childhood home in a fire last Friday. Tim and Ber...

By JOHN RECTENWALD jrectenwald@yourmvi.com Two parents delivered riveting closing statements Tuesday in opposition to fracking near Elizabeth Forward High School.   Conditional use hearings for Olympu...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Traveling south on Route 88 through the small riverside communities of Roscoe, Elco, Stockdale and Allenport, damage from Sunday’s hail storm may appear minimal.   H...

Lorenzo Altobelli of Lorenzo’s LA Effects in North Belle Vernon held a free hair cut clinic Monday afternoon at His Place in Monessen. Altobelli’s two employees, Dawayne Howell and James Gallaway, als...