Arlinn Demers, 1, of New Eagle plays at Mingo Creek County Park Thursday morning. The park and several other locations in the region will host the EQT Washington and Greene Counties’ Covered Bridge Fe...

By JOHN RECTENWALD jrectenwald@yourmvi.com Cross-examination of an Olympus Energy witness was unfocused throughout a second public hearing regarding the proposed Heracles well pad and interconnect sta...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The City of Monessen and the Monessen School District have selected the members of the newly formed Tax Forgiveness Board. To read the rest of the story, please s...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com Everyone knows the unfortunate pain of losing a loved one, but a local group is looking to mourn and unite the community by holding a festival honoring those lost. Mia...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com McKeesport Area School Board is slated to vote next week on whether it will enter into an “automated stop arm enforcement program” with BusPatrol America. To read the ...

By TAYLOR BROWN and MAX ROBINETTE tbrown@yourmvi.com mrobinette@yourmvi.com Two homes were destroyed and several others are damaged in New Eagle after a man accidentally started a fire by burning weed...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com “We’re bringing the Outback to the ‘burbs out here in the east (of Pittsburgh),” Dr. Dawn Klejka joked as she watched two nurses holding a baby kangaroo in UPMC McKees...

By Rich Cholodofsky Trib Total Media Westmoreland County commissioners on Thursday are expected to terminate a contract with Monessen to coordinate a plan to remove blighted properties in the city. Of...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com For one South Allegheny High School student, Boy Scouts have been a crucial part of development throughout life, and now he is working towards an Eagle Project that se...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Monongahela leaders accepted a contract bid — pending review — to repave Country Club Road and voiced concerns about debris on Main Street created by recent roa...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A junction box that helps synchronize traffic signals with the railroad has gone missing in Charleroi. The box, which was installed neath 8th Street and McKean Avenu...

Students at Charleroi Elementary Center enjoyed “crazy hair day” on Tuesday. From left are second-grader Frankie Hatalowich and fifth-graders Olivia Kostelac and Cameron Olstein.  

By JOHN RECTENWALD jrectenwald@yourmvi.com Elizabeth may be looking to get out of the sewage treatment business.   The potential sale of Elizabeth Borough Municipal Authority assets to Pennsylvania Am...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Nonprofits across the Mon Valley depend on the generosity of the communities they serve.  D uring this year’s Day of Giving, dozens of organizations across the Mon V...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The Allegheny County Parks Foundation appears to be eying the possibility of creating a trail connector between a county park in the Mon Valley and another in the Sout...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Monessen City School District leaders congratulated students, faculty and staff Tuesday for a successful start to the school year and continued plans to work wi...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com When His Place coffee shop opened its garage doors to the public for the first time one year ago today, it had one goal in mind: to change the world one cup of coffe...

By JOHN RECTENWALD jrectenwald@yourmvi.com Two sand trucks contracted by Olympus Energy to service its Apollo well site crashed in separate incidents last week, Elizabeth Township officials confirmed ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com White Oak’s police chief is attempting to equip his officers with body cameras. During Monday’s council workshop meeting, Borough Manager John Palyo said Chief Mark Sa...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Forward Township Supervisors approved a four-year contract with the Elizabeth Township Police Department during Monday’s meeting. The contract runs through Dece...