By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A feeling of pride in being an American radiated from the McKeesport Lions Club Bandshell in Renziehausen Park Friday night as the city marked its annual Patriotism Da...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Janice, a cat at White Oak Animal Safe Haven looking for a forever home, enjoyed sunbathing Thursday as the White Oak Rotary revealed a “purr-fect” project it recently...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Many people around the Mon Valley know there are a lot of “Cheap Old Houses” in Monessen but now, when the HGTV show bearing that name airs Monday night, an inter...

A state police officer drives under a flag held by ladder trucks from the Donora Volunteer Fire Department and Carroll Township Volunteer Fire Company during Thursday’s funeral procession for Washingt...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Mandatory mask wearing will continue on Mid Mon Valley Transit Authority buses at least until Jan. 18. That’s under a mandate from the Federal Transit Administr...

By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmvi.com With many Pennsylvania students back to class or about to return, Republican legislators don’t have any intention to pass a bill that would mandate mask wearing insi...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com There’s a big celebration coming to the Boston trail head of the Great Allegheny Passage.   This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Mon/Yough Trail Council being e...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com The Rostraver Township office of state Rep. Eric Davanzo is open for business, but not exactly as usual. Extra precautions are being taken following an incident...

On Wednesday, the Mon Valley YMCA, in partnership with Mon Valley Paws, hosted a “Doggie Paddle” at the Carroll Township facility. From the looks of it, humans and hounds alike enjoyed cooling off as ...

Staff and wire reports Gov. Tom Wolf has asked state Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman, R-Centre, and House Speaker Bryan Cutler, R-Lancaster, to call lawmakers back to Harrisburg immediately t...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com The Rostraver Township Commissioners are being asked to consider allowing police officers to live outside the township. Officers currently must either be reside...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com RADical Days are here again. On Tuesday, the Allegheny Regional Asset District — known around Allegheny County as RAD — announced the line-up of free events and activi...

Pennsylvania’s opioid disaster declaration expired Wednesday after state lawmakers, newly empowered to help manage statewide emergencies, declined the governor’s request for another extension. Democra...

Second-grader Charles Evans and fourth-grader Ari’Onna Verline-Jones wave as they get off the bus at Monessen Elementary Center for the first day of school Tuesday.

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com One day after classes started in the Ringgold School District, the middle school had to send home a letter alerting parents that people were inside the building w...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Beverly’s Birthdays brought the phrase “it takes a village” to life Tuesday as its “Itty Bitty” program set up shop in Monessen for a community baby shower. It’s an ag...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The federal judge assigned to a lawsuit filed against the City of Monessen, its mayor, two councilmen and city administrator has set an initial case management co...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Problems with vicious dogs were brought up again at Tuesday’s council meeting in Elizabeth. Resident Margaret Fleischauer said she and her small dog were attack...

Mon Valley NAACP Unit #2274 and D’s Barber Shop in Charleroi sponsored free back-to-school haircuts Monday. Barber Jimmy Young gives Tristin Yuille, 4, of Monessen a trim. The free haircuts will conti...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com McKeesport Area School District students headed back to school Monday and thanks to efforts all over the city, hundreds of students have new book bags and school suppl...