Jeff Helsel / Mon Valley Independent Kristy Jackson, assistant store manager at Duritza’s Market in North Belle Vernon, is shown working at the lottery register on Tuesday afternoon. The Powerball jac...

By LADIMIR GARCIA lgarcia@yourmvi.com Mon Valley veterans and first responders will be honored once again in Monongahela with a patriotic musical tribute. Warriors Rock, featuring Gary Racan and the S...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com If stories were water, the Mon Valley might float away. Over the past year, writers from the McKeesport Community Newsroom have worked to tell the stories of lo...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com The Washington County District Attorney announced Tuesday his office will return control of the Donora evidence room back to the police department. After nearly...

By Liam Belan lbelan@yourmvi.com Six Mon Valley fire departments responded to a residential structure fire Tuesday morning that left the resident in a local hospital with minor burns and smoke inhalat...

By Liam Belan lbelan@yourmvi.com A familiar face will return to the Belle Vernon Area School District in a leadership role. During a combined workshop and voting meeting Tuesday, the Belle Vernon Area...

Maximus Ribich, 3, smiles for the camera while his brother, Keith Ribich, 5, drinks from the water fountain Monday afternoon at the Boston trailhead of the Great Allegheny Passage. They were walking t...

By Liam Belan lbelan@yourmvi.com Lincoln Borough unanimously appointed Richard Buehrle as the borough’s new police chief at a special meeting Monday. Buehrle, who grew up in Lincoln and has been an of...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Rostraver Township received a substantial economic boost from Local Share Account funded grants awarded this week. Live! Casino, located at Westmoreland Mall alon...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com White Oak council honored a young lifeguard for his role in saving a man’s life at Heritage Hill pool in June. Mayor Ina Jean Marton and council President Chuck...

By Rich Cholodofsky Trib Total Media Former Westmoreland County Commissioner Ted Kopas will return to the job he held for more than a decade. The county’s 11 Common Pleas Court judges on Monday appoin...

Odette Fisher, 4, of Franklin greets Michele Ink’s dog, Roxy, at the inaugural Elizabeth Area Development Corporation Pooch Parade on Saturday. The event, sponsored by Candelore’s Barking Beauties, fe...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Monessen will hold a public hearing Thursday to allow residents to express their opinions on how the city’s Community Development Block Grant money should be spen...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Donora council voted Thursday to reimburse Councilwoman Cindy Brice for three years of unclaimed stipend. Brice requested the reimbursement after council voted ...

By LADIMIR GARCIA lgarcia@yourmvi.com From a car show to musical entertainment, Belle Vernon’s 10th annual block party on Saturday had a lot to offer for those who attended. To read the rest of the st...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com “Pomp and Circumstance” filled the chapel Friday at Bethel AME Church in Monongahela as nearly two dozen local residents graduated from an eight-week computer l...

By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmvi.com Charleroi Borough has received a second invoice from Obermayer, Rebmann, Maxwell & Hippel, the firm hired in March — and fired in June — to handle matters related to...

By Liam Belan lbelan@yourmvi.com Citizens Hose Company #1 of Glassport kicked off its yearly street fair Friday night with festivities that included the return of the Battle of the Barrel competition....

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Back in McKeesport, world renowned photographer and wordsmith Duane Michals said the place filled him with memories. “I’m proud of my black and blue collar root...

By Renatta Signorini Trib Total Media Five men are interested in completing the remainder of departing Westmoreland County Commissioner Gina Cerilli Thrasher’s term when she moves on to a new job in a...