By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Thanks to a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, elementary students in the California Area School District will learn about farming, eatin...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Mon Valley firefighters battled a heavy blaze over the weekend in Elizabeth Township. Firefighters from Elizabeth Township Fire Department were called shortly after 2 ...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Fourth-grade students in the Belle Vernon Area School District participated in a poster contest sponsored by the Rostraver Township Commissioners to address wat...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com College is going to be a song for Elizabeth Forward senior Caedon Vogel. The Mount   Vernon teen is the recipient of a Board of Governors scholarship that will ...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Senior girls in the Charleroi Area School District shared tea with a special guest Friday. For the past 74 years, the Athene Club has hosted a senior tea for graduat...

For the Mon Valley Independent Monongahela Valley Hospital and United Steelworkers Local 8041 have a new three-year contract that begins July 1 and runs through June 30, 2024.   Local 8041 represents ...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com There are eight candidates in the race for four seats on the Charleroi Area School Board, and all of them have cross-filed. Incumbents Barbara Pepper, Thomas Nutting...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com In the race for Monessen City Council, there are four men running for two open seats.   All are Democrats, so the race could be decided in Tuesday’s primary, barr...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Ringgold Middle School students received an out of this world learning experience Wednesday. A group of students from grades 7 and 8 participated in the nati...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Residents within the McKeesport Area School District will have a lot of options when casting their votes for school board in Tuesday’s primary election. Eleven candida...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Many storybooks take children on a literary journey where words, pictures and illustrations allow their imaginations to roam into another world. Kids from McKeesport a...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com The Elizabeth Forward School Board is expected to give preliminary approval next week to a $46,387,194 general fund budget with a 2.5% property tax increase. Al...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com One of the consultants working on the Rails to Trails project about the master site plan for Palmer Park talked to Donora Council Thursday. The majority of the pr...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Shoppers, foodies and chocoholics will descend upon Monongahela Saturday when the city holds its first-ever World of Chocolate tour. The event, sponsored by ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com More than 100 people gathered Wednesday at Renziehausen Park to pay tribute to a late McKeesport Area teacher, who was also a McKeesport city councilwoman. The group o...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com The ballot will appear as if the race for supervisor in Forward Township is uncontested when voters go to the polls Tuesday, but that would ignore the somewhat ...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The mayoral race in Monessen is hotly contested and has only grown more contentious as the primary draws closer. Mayor Matt Shorraw, 30, a Democrat, is running fo...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Two new employees clocked in for their first shifts for Charleroi Borough this week. On Monday, Jeremy Hepple, a Charleroi volunteer firefighter, started training fo...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Five additional businesses will soon benefit from the Monongahela Main Street Program’s facade project. In a 3-0 vote Wednesday, Monongahela council approved...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com The Monongahela Area Chamber of Commerce held its first in-person meeting in over a year Wednesday, and its staff is hopeful future meetings will only get bi...