By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Donora held its first End of Summer Block Party on Saturday, featuring a petting zoo, pony rides, a bounce house, a Velcro ax-throwing game, Chuck-a-Luck, beer,...

By Jeff Himler Trib Total Media The state Department of Environmental Protection has cited the Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill for leachate that leaked from the Rostraver facility on Wednesday and made...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Members of local environmental organizations have asked Monessen city officials and residents to attend this week’s public meeting on Westmoreland Sanitary Landfi...

By TAYLOR BROWN Trib Total Media The Class of 2026 at Thomas Jefferson High School headed back to class today after going through orientation over the weekend.   On Friday, incoming freshman visited t...

By Matt Petras For the MVI First Baptist Church of Monongahela joined other local churches for its third “Faith Night” Saturday, welcoming a large group for an evening of Christian worship music at th...

Ringgold make their entrances Friday at Joe Montana Stadium for the kickoff of a new football season.

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Monessen council plans to hire an exterminator to alleviate the city’s rodent issues. Earlier this month, Mayor Ron Mozer said the city has a serious problem with...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The Aug. 2 explosion at the Common Ground Building in McKeesport did more than shatter windows and blow holes in walls. It sent two people to area hospitals and displa...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com With many of the communities they protect lining the Monongahela River, local firefighters got together Thursday for a refresher course on water rescue training. To ...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com Strength and kindness, hard work and perseverance.   These are a few characteristics of new Monessen Communities That Care assistant program coordinator Rayna W...

Jeff Helsel / Mon Valley Independent California Area Elementary School Principal Rachel Nagy escorts third-grade student Wylie Werner and second-grader Taylor Pritchard, both of Roscoe, to the school ...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Almost a month after Mon Valley EMS visited Monessen Council to address rumors about response times and staffing concerns, the city is going to ask Westmoreland C...

By JOHN RECTENWALD jrectenwald@yourmvi.com West Deer Township’s denial of Olympus Energy’s Dionysus Well Pad was fully upheld in Allegheny County Wednesday in a decision handed down by Court of Common...

By the MVI Members of the West Jefferson Hills School District honored one of their beloved retired educators and community leaders. Superintendent Dr. Janet Sardon and West Jefferson Hills School Dis...

By John Rectenwald jrectenwald@yourmvi.com A crackdown on messy property owners who violate borough code ordinances and abandoned vehicles could bring more income to Elizabeth Borough. The consensus a...

By Max Robinette mrobinette@yourmvi.com The Donora Smog Commemorative Committee will host the Donora End of Summer Block Party from 2 to 11 p.m. Saturday on McKean Avenue between Fifth and Seventh Str...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A student-involved art project years in the making was unveiled Sunday at Madonna Catholic Regional School in Monongahela, and the artist who helped create it hopes ...

Staff and wire reports More than 40 million Americans could see their student loan debt reduced — and in many cases eliminated — under the long-awaited forgiveness plan President Joe Biden announced W...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Motorists surprised by the newly installed traffic signals in Belle Vernon Borough near the I-70 ramp will only have to get used to them for the time being. Accordin...

For the MVI Three Mon Valley businesses were honored along with retired chamber Executive Director Debra Keefer, at the 2022 Annual Mon Valley Regional Chamber of Commerce Awards Gala. Nearly 80 guest...