By Joseph Augustine For the Mon Valley Independent If you’re a fan of the board game, “Clue,” then Howling Hills Corn Maze Adventures will be fun for the whole family to partake in this fall season. I...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com McKeesport Area School District continues to deal with a bus driver shortage that is impacting charter school students who live within its boundaries. But the school b...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Elizabeth Forward’s gridiron was alive with activity Tuesday as high school life skills students from around the Greater Pittsburgh region — and a couple of Steelers S...

By JOHN RECTENWALD jrectenwald@yourmvi.com The opposition camp in Elizabeth Township’s contentious fracking debate will have another week to prepare its cross-examinations of Olympus Energy witnesses....

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com High school students from Italy will become Cougars for a day or two when they visit the Charleroi Area School District campus next month. Superintendent Dr. Ed Zeli...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com After nine and a half months of protests from the public and appealing to council, Donora Mayor Don Pavelko has claimed the traditional mayoral office space in ...

By JEFF OLIVER For the MVI When Robbie Graw was gutting the vacant property he recently purchased in Monessen, he came upon something odd behind old cabinets in the basement of the dilapidated structu...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Monongahela residents learned about a new software platform intended to aid community development Monday at the Monongahela Area Revitalization Corporation’s 15...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com White Oak’s council president admitted Monday night that “we know there’s a problem” with code enforcement in the borough. Councilman Chuck Davis made that statement a...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com It can be hard for most people to relate to the devastating news of a cancer diagnosis, but Nikki Williams can and it has inspired her to raise money for the battle ag...

By JOHN RECTENWALD jrectenwald@yourmvi.com A select group of Elizabeth Forward elementary students demonstrated their robotics knowledge for more than 2,000 students from all over the Pittsburgh area ...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com North Charleroi’s two-man street crew will soon take over some responsibilities of code enforcement in the borough. To read the rest of the story, please see a copy ...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Valley residents welcomed the fall season and celebrated regional history over the   weekend with EQT Washington and Greene counties’ 51st annual Covered Bridge...

By JOHN RECTENWALD jrectenwald@yourmvi.com Yough-n-Roll is here to stay.   At least that was the spirit felt at the Mon Yough Trail Council’s “Party on the Trail” event Saturday. To read the rest of t...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Some of White Oak’s leaders expressed concerns during last week’s workshop meeting related to seemingly low attendance during a portion of the Community Day celebratio...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com For the first time in nearly two decades, live music will return to the Stockdale Fire Hall. Only 300 tickets will be sold for at the fire department’s annual oldies...

Serra Catholic players Zach Karp and Zach Black show off the rings they received Friday for winning the WPIAL Class 2A baseball championship.  

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com September is Hunger Action Month, and Feeding America, local food banks and lawmakers across the state are continuing to encourage people to do their part to combat hu...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Last week, the nonprofit Guardian Angels Medical Service Dogs showed up to support the Mon Valley Paws Pet Walk and Vendor Show in Monessen, as well as the annu...

By the MVI Charleroi’s Little Great Race celebrated its 35th year this year. The event, which is 100% coordinated and manned by volunteers, is held the second Saturday of every September. To read the ...