By the MVI During a short online special meeting Tuesday, the Belle Vernon Area school board hired a new special education teacher for Rostraver Elementary. The board unanimously approved Natalie Monc...

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republican leaders are determined to push ahead with a GOP health care bill that excludes efforts to address the soaring monthly premiums millions of Americans will soon endure...

• Brian Lewis, 47, of Donora was charged with criminal trespass enter structure stemming from an alleged incident on Oct. 26, court records state. • Kizzi Gaza, 46, of Monongahela was charged with DUI...

DO YOU HAVE TWO SPARE hours each week that if you don’t put them to good use, they will be lost forever? Two hours that could be put to good use by doing something special to help some of your neighbo...

For months now, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein has been the Democratic Party’s go-to subject for attacks on President Donald Trump. Yes, other events have presented an occasional target of opport...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration announced Tuesday it was expanding travel restrictions to an additional 20 countries and the Palestinian Authority, doubling the number of nations affected b...

The awards celebration was held Dec. 5 at the Nemacolin Country Club in Beallsville. For the MVI The Mon Valley Regional Chamber of Commerce proudly announced the winners of its annual Celebrate the S...

BRUSSELS (AP) — Over the course of 2025, a new reality has sunk in for Europe. The United States, long its strongest ally, has chipped away at the European Union’s unity, economies, security and even ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said in a court filing Monday that the president’s White House ballroom construction project must continue for unexplained national security reasons and beca...

Belle Vernon Area’s Curty Wade, Cameren Jenko, Trevor Kovatch and Dominic Ghilani display the rings they received Monday for winning the 2025 WPIAL Class 4A basketball championship. Mike Darnay / MVI ...

State Sen. Nick Pisciottano and Rep. Andrew Kuzma helped secure the funding for Saddlers Hollow Road. Forward Township officials shared welcome news Monday night: the township has been awarded statewi...

The tentative spending plan includes a 3-mill increase, but that number could change before a final vote is taken. Rostraver Township’s 2026 budget plan includes a 3-mill tax increase, but some commis...

Charleroi Fire Department responded to a single-vehicle accident on 13th Street Monday, along with a reported commercial structure fire involving a furnace motor and a carbon monoxide incident at a re...

Council may have to take money from the general fund to help cover health insurance costs for borough employees. White Oak Council approved a preliminary budget Monday night that will keep taxes at th...

City Administrator Michael Korposh said there was enough on hand to handle the weekend snowfall, and more has been ordered. Monessen officials on Monday refuted claims by a city resident that crews ra...

Care bags were recently donated to police and fire departments in Charleroi, Donora and Monessen. For the MVI Following a survey conducted last Rotary year among local police and fire departments, Rot...

Four-year-old Myles Voit, left, son of Serra Catholic basketball coach Mike Voit, and 8-year-old Ellie Pearce share a smile in the stands as the Eagles hosted Bishop Canevin in a girls basketball game...

THERE IS A PARTICULAR HORROR in violent attacks on holy days and in holy places. This is terror in its purest form, rendering a people not only fearful to express their faith, but also to forever asso...

Nothing bothers the European elite as much as American conservatives praising the European foundations of their shared, but threatened, Western civilization. Europeans especially resent having their s...

Joy has long been a component of the retail landscape this time of year. I’ve seen it on department store windows in Manhattan — most amusingly nearby St. Francis of Assisi Church. Of course, even if ...