By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com It’s almost Fourth of July — time to get rollin’, rollin’ on the Monongahela River. The Monongahela Area Chamber of Commerce and the Monongahela Main Street Pro...

Jeff Helsel / Mon Valley Independent The Belle Vernon Public Library hosted magician Steve Haberman and his “All Together Now Magic Show” at Community Bank Park in North Belle Vernon on Wednesday. Hab...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The wait is over — a dissolution is off the table, rates will stay the same and jobs are secure at the Authority of the Borough of Charleroi. After months of back an...

By Liam Belan lbelan@yourmvi.com Pennsylvania’s state Senate passed legislation Tuesday sponsored by three Senators, including Sen. Camera Bartolotta, R-Carroll Township, that is designed to reduce th...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com McKeesport Area School Board held a scattered final meeting of the fiscal school year Wednesday. The meeting’s published agenda sparked dissent from district re...

By MATT PETRAS For the MVI The Monongahela Aquatorium will debut its 2023 summer concert series this Saturday with a stacked show, featuring Six Gun Sally alongside Artimus Pyle, opened by Bon Journey...

Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent Police officers lined the street Tuesday to escort the body of Glenn Porter to the Carl J. Spallino Funeral Home in Charleroi. All area law enforcement agencies...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com About 100 concerned local residents piled into the West Newton Gymnasium Tuesday night to learn more about a proposed natural-gas powered power plant in Elizabeth Town...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Monongahela suffered another water line break Tuesday. Around 12:15 p.m., a line on Chess Street between Third Street and Lynn Alley burst, cracking pavement an...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com When Sarah Graby graduated from Monessen High School in 1999, her class had 68 members — a small graduating class by any measure. This year’s class had 44 graduat...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Charleroi Area School Board honored two retirees at Tuesday’s meeting.   Custodian Sharon Johnson and second-grade teacher Mary Kay Sidary were celebrated by directo...

Area residents came to the McKeesport Area High School auditorium Monday night to watch the Jimmy Awards featuring McKeesport’s Kaitlyn Majewski and Elizabeth Forward’s Tyler Guinto-Brody. Displaying ...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com After decades of community and behavioral health services, Angora Gardens will close July 31. The long-time White Oak institution operates from a 19th century f...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission’s distribution of impact fees from natural gas producers totals more than $279 million this year — almost $45 million m...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com The Belle Vernon Area school board approved a tax increase Monday in a meeting that also saw the retirement of Superintendent Dr. Ken Williams. To read the rest of the...

The Mon Valley Independent is expanding its electronic edition to offer our readers, subscribers and advertisers even more.   We will be debuting our new MVI Extra edition on Saturday. It’s a special,...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com What started out as a vacation turned into a horrific tragedy for a Charleroi family and has triggered an outpouring of love and support from the community. Glenn Po...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com When Monessen City School Board approved its 2023-24 budget last week, it also approved a resolution to provide the option of installment payments for real-estate...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com All the world’s a stage — but it’s a little bigger on Broadway. McKeesport Little Theater will hold a Jimmy Awards viewing party today at the McKeesport Area Hi...

Collinsburg Volunteer Fire Co. responded to a fire just before 11 p.m. Saturday in the 200 block of Cypress Street. No injuries were reported, but the house was a total loss. West Newton, Turkeytown, ...