By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Donora council hired a bookkeeper Thursday, continuing to fill borough building positions after months of being short staffed. Council members approved Kelli Ke...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Hundreds of people who were gathered at Renziehausen Park for a candlelight vigil erupted with cheers and applause Wednesday night when a man called out that police Of...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The Superior Court of Pennsylvania has ruled that dockets related to the case against a man accused in connection with a November homicide in Rostraver Township m...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com After months of hearings and hours of testimony, the Rostraver Township Zoning Hearing board unanimously voted to deny a special request from Olympus Energy requesting...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Donora’s civil service commission held a second hearing Wednesday to determine if former police superintendent Jim Brice should be reinstated. Council fired Bri...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com As the General Assembly heads into the 2023-24 budget season, there is work to be done – particularly when it comes to funding public schools. A Pennsylvania judge r...

Charleroi Elementary Center held an assembly Tuesday morning for grades 3-5 as cartoonist Duane Abel brought his message of “Draw Your Destiny” to the students. Fifth-grader Arabella Davis receives an...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Following the shooting of two officers on Monday, messages and gestures of condolence continued to flood the McKeesport Police Department on Tuesday. Elected officials...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Democrats claimed control of the Pennsylvania House by sweeping three special elections Tuesday in Allegheny County. Democratic campaign strategists had been optimisti...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The Mon Valley Academy for the Arts has a new home in Brownsville.   Founded in 2015 by Mark Smith, the late former state Rep. Peter J. Daley and late maestro Joe Ca...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com A Monessen High School graduate is looking to honor some of the school’s most distinguished alumni in the form of an annual Wall of Fame red carpet event. Sarah Graby-...

By MAX ROBINETTE mrobinette@yourmvi.com McKeesport police Officer Sean Sluganski was fatally shot Monday afternoon while responding to a domestic disturbance. Another officer, Charles “Chuck” Thomas, ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A Mon Valley city is mourning after one McKeesport police officer was shot and killed while on duty Monday afternoon, and another officer was sent to the hospital with...

By PAULA REED WARD Trib Total Media Allegheny County police late Monday filed homicide and related charges against a man accused of killing one McKeesport officer and wounding another in an afternoon ...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com Several residents showed up at Monday night’s Elizabeth Township commissioners meeting to voice their displeasure at the handling of recent parking lot construction at...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Several fire departments and other emergency service agencies across the Mon Valley have received grant money that will help them continue to keep their communities ...

By Matt Petras For the MVI Solomon Ortiz was excited about jumping in the Monongahela River with his fellow Cal U football players at Saturday’s Frosty Frolic.   “We’ve been talking about it for the p...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A Monessen man was among those looking to the skies in the Carolinas over the weekend as a suspected Chinese spy balloon first floated by and then was later shot down ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com McKeesport Area School District, with support for the plan from its local police departments, is seeking to hold motorists accountable for illegally passing school bus...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@your.mvi.com Monessen council recently voted to schedule several events in the city for its 125th anniversary. With celebrations planned throughout the year, getting events a...