By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The Mon Valley Career and Technology Center will offer a new program for students next year. To read the rest of the story, please see a copy of Tuesday’s Mon Valley...

By JOSH KING For the MVI The Mon Valley YMCA needed a 15-passenger van to help kids get back and forth to activities. To read the rest of the story, please see a copy of Tuesday’s Mon Valley Independe...

By Matt Petras For the MVI The City of Monessen held a ceremony Saturday renaming Ninth Street Park as Anthony Eric Madison, Sr. Veterans Memorial Park, commemorating a Monessen native killed at age 2...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com In the wake of Russia’s continued attack on Ukraine, Pennsylvania’s governor and a state senator from the Mon Valley called for Russian-sourced products, such as vodka...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Charleroi Area students will celebrate female voices of the 1960s when “Beehive the ’60s Musical: A School Edition” this weekend.   To read the rest of the story, pl...

By John Rectenwald jrectenwald@yourmvi.com February can be a brutal stretch for shopkeepers in the Northeast, but the owners of Graceful Style in Elizabeth aren’t waiting for warmer weather or tax sea...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com It’s never too early to start learning.   For students at California Area Elementary School, their newest peers were only six days old when they stumbled into a clas...

By MEGAN GUZA Trib Total Media As the federal government loosens masking guidance for a majority of healthy Americans, Pennsylvania officials said they will follow suit while keeping an eye on COVID-r...

By John Rectenwald jrectenwald@yourmvi.com A mechanic in Elizabeth was once a boy dreaming of cars 15,000 miles away.   To read the rest of the story, please see a copy of Saturday’s Mon Valley Indepe...

By CHASITY CAPASSO For the MVI Behaviorworx Center for Autism and Behavior will officially open its doors Tuesday in the Peasant Village Professional Plaza in Rostraver Township.   To read the rest of...

By Matt Petras For the MVI After more than two decades as Red Dawg’s All Star Clubhouse, the Rostraver Township restaurant has transformed into Dawg’s Sports Bar and Grill under new owner Martin Sivic...

Monessen basketball players Lorenzo Gardner and Dante DeFelices shake hands with students during a pep rally Thursday morning at Monessen Elementary Center for the Greyhounds boys and girls basketball...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com There hasn’t been a date set, but Monessen City Council members have their minds set on demolishing 500 Donner Ave. as soon as it’s safe and legal.   To read the ...

By John Rectenwald jrectenwald@yourmvi.com After 200-plus years, a seventh-generation Belle Vernon farm is selling milk directly to consumers again.   To read the rest of the story, please see a copy ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com U.S. Rep. Guy Reschenthaler had harsh words Thursday for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade in Ukraine. To read the rest of the story, please see a ...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Fr. Roman Yatskiv of St. Nicholas Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Monessen struggled to find words Thursday as he watched video footage of Russia’s attack on his homela...

Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent Cody Russell, 5, of Washington Township, Tanner Sypolt, 9, of Fallowfield Township, Max Russell, 9, of Washington Township, Nathan Dudzinski, 9, of Rostraver To...

Staff and wire reports Pennsylvania’s highest court broke a partisan deadlock Wednesday over a new map of congressional districts by selecting boundaries that broadly adhere to the outlines of current...

By CHRISTINE HAINES For the MVI The preliminary hearing for Rostraver Township Commissioner John Lorenzo, which had been scheduled for Wednesday, has been continued with no new date set at this time. ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Tensions flared once again at this month’s McKeesport Area School Board meeting as the board continued debating the validity of the process used to approve the superin...