By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmvi.com North Charleroi residents may have to abide by new burning restrictions in the future. During a business meeting Monday, council discussed a proposed ordinance that ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Two of the counties that are part of the Mon Valley have seen increases in population, according to figures from the 2020 U.S. Census. Allegheny County’s population ha...

Thomas Jefferson lineman Nick Bryan, left, and Charleroi’s Jacob King enjoy a slice of pizza during the Mon Valley Independent sports department’s football photo shoot Sunday at Snapshot 47 studio in ...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The City of Monessen has made its curfew ordinance easier to enforce. The ordinance as it exists remains in place, but it has been amended to eliminate some of th...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Capital improvements are planned for the 2021-22 school year in the Elizabeth Forward School District, building on projects over the past year. Buildings and gr...

By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmvi.com A local charity that provides weekend food bags to students in the Belle Vernon Area hopes to restock its shelves in time for the first day of school. The Bag Brigad...

By Matt Petras For the MVI Antioch Baptist Church in Belle Vernon did not hold its annual picnic last year because of caution in the face of the pandemic. This made Sunday’s picnic even more special, ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com State Sen. Jim Brewster is trying to bring resources to veterans in the Mon Valley and other parts of his senatorial district. The Democratic senator from McKeesport r...

Brayden Stinogle, 10, of Charleroi, Brennon Lennex, 10, of Charleroi, Morgan Dodd, 10, of Carroll Township and Sienna Chiprich, 11, of Monongahela cooled off this week under the Big Bucket Splash at P...

By Eric Seiverling eseiverling@yourmvi.com With their spending habits and expenses under recent scrutiny, Pennsylvania senators announced a new reporting system this week to make all Senate expenses a...

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...