By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Sam McCrossin isn’t ready to permanently close his docks just yet — although they won’t be open this season.   McCrossin’s Landing would normally be welcoming boater...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Monessen School Board has passed a preliminary budget, but hasn’t decided if real estate taxes will increase or stay the same. The current draft of the budget cal...

By Renatta Signorini Trib Total Media A condemnation hearing has been set for June 14 in West Mifflin to examine the condition of the former Century III Mall. To read the rest of the story, please see...

By the MVI Motorists will be a seeing a lot of orange cones next week as numerous road work projects and lane restrictions will continue. To read the rest of the story, please see a copy of Saturday’s...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Neighbors became friends in the Magic City during a Haitian Flag Day celebration Thursday at Charleroi’s Market House.   The inaugural event – and the only one of it...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Rostraver Township Commissioner John Lorenzo was found guilty of harassing the township manager and two fellow commissioners at last year’s Halloween event. To re...

Serra Catholic softball players Lida Wos and Olivia Gergely stacked items on their heads in the dugout Thursday afternoon prior to their playoff game against Our Lady of the Sacred Heart.

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com PennDOT Engineering District 12 held a public information session Thursday on the proposed Interstate 70 reconstruction project that runs from Bentleyville to t...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com When Belle Vernon Area Middle School students studied a book depicting the struggles that people in Sudan suffer through in the fight for clean water, a group of them ...

California Area High School’s chapter of Students Against Destructive Decisions hosted a mock prom disaster exercise Wednesday. Junior firefighters from the California and Roscoe fire companies took p...

By the MVI staff Today's Mon Valley Independent includes a roundup of contested and uncontested municipal and school board races throughout the Mon Valley. To read the rest of the story, please see a ...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Like winter brings snow and spring brings rain, every voting season poll workers bring us our elections. With polls open across Pennsylvania 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. fo...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com Concerns about the Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill once again became the topic of discussion during the Rostraver Township commissioner’s work session Wednesday. Rostra...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Mon River Arts will put on a production this fall unlike anything it has ever done before. The organization has been chosen as a newly established replication site f...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Ringgold School Board members and a candidate in Tuesday’s primary election jousted over social media posts during Wednesday’s public meeting. Paula Harshaw, wh...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Michael Cherepko won his fourth nomination as the Democratic candidate for McKeesport mayor in a commanding victory in Tuesday’s primary. According to early uno...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com There will still be a Judge Christner overseeing the magisterial district court in Rostraver Township beyond this year — District Judge-elect John Christner. Magi...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com Rostraver Township’s Board of Commissioners will remain unchanged after Tuesday’s primary election as incumbents Gary Beck Sr., Devin DeRienzo and John Lorenzo all ret...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Dee’s Event Center in Charleroi was filled with cheers, tears and beers as unofficial primary election results rolled in Tuesday night — which led to a clean sweep f...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Amber Webb will likely be the new face on McKeesport council. In a race involving five Democratic nominees for four council seats, Webb snagged the nomination t...