By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Students from Charleroi quickly made friends with fellow high school students from Italy who became Cougars for a day during their visit to the Charleroi Area School...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com PennDOT said it is taking steps to make safety improvements at an intersection in the 5-Town area.   An accident Monday evening in the Elco Hill section of Long Branch...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com In the early 1980s, community organizers in East Brooklyn, N.Y., began building blocks of the American dream where nothing worth a dime had stood for decades — th...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Our friends have our backs in times of joy and in times of strife. And a good friend is always in your corner to support you, your causes and your dreams. On Tuesday, ...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Fall is here and so are decorations across the Mon Valley. To build season spirit, the Monongahela Area Revitalization Corporation is holding its fourth annual ...

Keli, Ed and Shelley Rosensteel blow bubbles Monday night in a tribute to their late daughter, Kaitlyn “Moe” Rosensteel, at a Ringgold soccer game.  

By JOHN RECTENWALD jrectenwald@yourmvi.com Forward Township supervisors heard concerns at Monday’s meeting about noisy dirt bikes and quad-runners. Long-time township resident Howard Fleming asked whe...

By LIAM BELAN lbelan@yourmvi.com Belle Vernon Area High School is looking to open the eyes of the audience as it prepares to put on its fall play, “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.” ...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Germaine Sickles’ famous apple dumplings will be available this week in Monongahela while supplies last. For the past two years, St. Andrew the Apostle Parish has sp...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Firefighters from Roscoe, Stockdale and California Borough were called to a busy and seemingly dangerous intersection in Long Branch Monday after a car flipped over an...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com The Penn Highlands Mon Valley Hospital Foundation held its 19th annual Lois Orange Ducoeur Breast Cancer Walk on Saturday. In the first in-person walk held sinc...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The McKeesport Police Department is mourning the loss of one of its K-9 officers. “It is with heavy hearts we announce, after a medical emergency, Lieutenant (Bob) Eas...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The City of Monessen is still working toward filling its deputy treasurer position, which has been vacant much of the year. “It’s not easy,” Mayor Ron Mozer said....

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com McKeesport is home to a large cemetery that serves as the final resting place for a lot of history makers. And the McKeesport Regional History & Heritage Center believ...

By JOHN RECTENWALD jrectenwald@yourmvi.com Amy Reed awoke to find a black bear sauntering around her Rostraver Township residence around 10:30 a.m. Friday.   While inside her house — on a quiet street...

Dashawn Carter and Angelina Cortazzo were crowned homecoming king and queen at South Allegheny High School Friday night.

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The Monongahela police officer who fatally shot a 29-year-old man in July was justified in doing so, according to Washington County’s district attorney. Representative...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The name of the game in Monessen these days is blight removal, and Mayor Ron Mozer decided it was time to make it a little more interesting. There are two buildin...

By JOHN RECTENWALD jrectenwald@yourmvi.com California Borough officials hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday for a new pavilion that rose from the rubble of the old Hollywood Theater. California re...

By MAX ROBINETTE mrobinette@yourmvi.com The season of spirits is here, and the Monongahela Area Historical Society knows a ghost story or two. “In these houses, people have seen children who aren’t th...