By JIM BUSCH For the MVI Students and faculty of the Young Scholars of Greater Allegheny (YSGA) Charter School gathered this week to celebrate “A Turkish Night with a Spanish Twist.” The event represe...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Ringgold School District administrators held their mid-year review Wednesday, detailing the successes and shortcomings of the district’s post-pandemic curriculu...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com As the Charleroi Area School District community mourns the loss of one of its students, a neighboring district — and its four-legged friends — stepped in Wednesday t...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Mon Valley EMS in Monessen will remain open despite some changes in the operation’s financial structure this week. Mon Valley EMS Chief Karen Newman said Wednesda...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Ringgold school officials insist that rumors about the high school dropping honors classes are just that — rumors. Leading up to Wednesday’s meeting, word sprea...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com After 40 years of serving the California community, Ron and Sherry Messick locked up the doors to their Redstone Pharmacy for the last time Tuesday. The couple, who es...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Technology is more important than ever in and outside of the classroom, and Charleroi Elementary Center physical education teacher Amanda Bashioum has found a way to...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com HARRISBURG, Pa. (MVI) —Pennsylvania officially has a new governor. And his lieutenant governor is a son of the Mon Valley.   Democrat Josh Shapiro on Tuesday became th...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com A Charleroi family is reeling after an accident late Sunday night took the lives of a father and son traveling on Interstate 83 in Dauphin County. Greg Stupar, 49...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Firefighters responded to a structure fire early Tuesday morning in Charleroi. According to Charleroi Fire Chief Robert Whiten Jr., crews were called to the 700 bloc...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Dunlevy council honored a local firefighter Tuesday for his heroic rescue of an elderly resident from a house fire in November. Mayor J. Ross Landman praised Ch...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com A group of fifth-grade students were in the spotlight at Tuesday’s meeting of the Monessen School Board. Teacher Jennifer Gardner brought three of her students — Avery...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Three members of North Charleroi Council, the mayor and the long-time borough solicitor resigned Monday — and a mysterious, anonymous letter is partly to blame. Soli...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com From a young age, Andrew Takach wasn’t interested in toys or dolls like other kids. His interest was in knives. “I always had a passion for knives since I was about 6 ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The McKeesport NAACP Unit is calling on city residents to attend a “community meeting” later this week to productively discuss gun violence prevention efforts and solu...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The Superior Court of Pennsylvania has granted an application to expedite the appeal filed by the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press, the Mon Valley...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com The Donora Public Library has established a new scholarship in the name of a life-long educator and borough resident. The Dr. Charles E. Stacey Commuting Studen...

By Matt Petras For the MVI Mt. Calvary Baptist Church in Monessen commemorated Martin Luther King Jr. on Sunday with a sermon from the church’s pastor, Bishop Karl Jackson, and speeches from five of h...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Monongahela council heard multiple public comments last week, ranging from complaints about obstructed road ways to concerns about police department protocols. ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com By responding promptly, multiple area fire departments on Saturday prevented a Fallowfield Township house from being destroyed. That’s according to the Fallowfield Fir...