By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com A major roach infestation is once again a topic of frustration for Donora residents. This time it’s in the area of the 200 blocks of Meade Street and Castner Aven...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Every year since she turned 4, Kennedy Curcio has used her birthday as a way to give back to others. At her birthday party last month, Kennedy, an incoming fourth-gr...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Students in the McKeesport Area School District get to choose whether they wear a mask in school for the 2021-22 school year. In a 6-3 vote at Wednesday’s meeting, McK...

By Matt Petras For the MVI After closing like other districts around the country at the start of the pandemic, Clairton School District brought its elementary students back full-time in the fall of 20...

Rylee Sartori, 4, of Richeyville slides down the frog on a hot Thursday afternoon at Pine Cove Beach Club. More warm weather is in the forecast for today.

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The festival grounds were packed Thursday as McKeesport’s 61st installment of International Village came to a close. For three days, people from the McKeesport area an...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Donora Council voted to reinstate the position of police chief and then to promote an officer to fill the role, while keeping police Superintendent Jim Brice in h...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com For 26 days, people at five addresses in McKeesport’s Lower 10th Ward were unable to drink water from the tap. On Thursday morning, they got refreshing news. Following...

By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmvi.com Volunteers are needed to help kick start the second year of Big Brothers Big Sisters in the Charleroi Area School District.   Pam Slomiany, program manager for the C...

By Eric Seiverling eseiverling@yourmvi.com For veteran blues rocker George Thorogood, it wasn’t a question of if he’d ever become a rock star, but a matter of when. “When I was 19 or 20, my parents sh...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com After a humid day where the temperature neared 100 degrees, heavy storms poured onto the Mon Valley Thursday night. The National Weather Service in Pittsburgh spent th...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Ego, the California Borough K9 officer, is officially a retiree today. The 9-year-old Belgian Malinois will settle into civilian life with his career partner, P...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com The Belle Vernon Area School board could be back to full strength Monday. Last month, then-board president Dan Engstrom resigned because he was moving out of th...

By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmvi.com Charleroi Borough Council has opted not to offer street department services to one of the largest employers in town, creating a divide among council members who worr...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Parents and guardians in the Elizabeth Forward School District will be receiving an update letter today from Superintendent Dr. Todd Keruskin, but it may not be...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Monongahela residents and children looking forward to using the newly renovated Mounds Park may have to wait a few more weeks to see its completion. After a ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com McKeesport’s International Village is about fellowship, tradition and community. Yesterday marked the second day of the three-day ethnic food, dancing and music festiv...

By Eric Seiverling eseiverling@yourmvi.com In 1964, the Beatles made their historic appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show and Elvis Presley released his blockbuster film, “Viva Las Vegas.” But Belle Vern...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Your nose, taste buds, eyes, ears and dancing feet are a passport around the world this week in McKeesport. The city’s 61st International Village festival kicked off T...

By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmvi.com The Monessen School Board has approved a health and safety plan for the upcoming school year that will require all teachers, staff, students and visitors to wear mas...