A fire on McKee Avenue in Monessen Thursday night pushed firefighters out of the house when fireworks or pistol rounds began going off inside. Crews were called to a three-story wooden house around 10...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com About 20 members of the public attended a virtual Zoom meeting Thursday night to hear more about the rails to trails feasibility study. Dennis Martinak of D. Mart...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com State representatives from the Mon Valley weighed in on proposed legislation that would protect retail businesses from closing in case of an emergency disaster decla...

Submitted Members of the Elizabeth Forward Youth Athletics Tribe baseball team surround their 10-year-old teammate Dominic Grebur after staging a welcome home parade to his Elizabeth Township home Wed...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com After a month-long investigation that followed environmental complaints in the Borough of New Eagle, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection ...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Lue Ann Pawlick never met a stranger. Both professionally, and personally, she loved deeply and cared about people whom she met in all walks of her life. Pawlick, 60...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Ringgold school officials continue to move forward with renovations to the high school’s athletic equipment. At their meeting Wednesday night, school directo...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation says it will address a water problem on a section of Finley Road in Rostraver Township as part of the I-70 improve...

Joey Johnson, Alexia Ciaccia, Eva Ciaccia and Nellie Johnson, all of Rostraver Township, enjoy a sunny evening Tuesday at the DiVirgilio Complex playground in Rostraver Township. Today’s temperatures ...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com After three guilty verdicts were returned Tuesday against former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd, leaders across the Mon Valley...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com State officials joined together Tuesday to show their support for health care workers and frontline employees. Department of Labor and Industry Acting Secret...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com People who walk inside any building on the Charleroi Area School District campus next year will be able to breathe a bit easier thanks to a multi-million dollar inve...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Support continues to pour in for an Elizabeth Township boy injured in a crash involving his bicycle and a car earlier this month.   Dominic Grebur, 10, was ridi...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com The Belle Vernon Area School Board countered rumors Tuesday that the district was planning to close all four school buildings following Monday’s closure of Bell...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The Allegheny County Health Department has launched a new air quality online dashboard in an effort to provide more easily digestible and understandable data for area ...

Just before 6 p.m. Monday, both Monessen volunteer fire departments were called to the 600 block of Reed Avenue for a residential fire. The fire started in the kitchen and was knocked down fairly quic...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A new police contract for White Oak officers was approved at Monday’s council meeting. With council deadlocked in a 3-3 vote, Mayor Ina Jean Marton cast a tie-breaking...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com The Washington County Community Foundation recently announced it is taking applications for a special $150,000 grants program from its Community CARE Fund to...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The focus has been on the COVID-19 pandemic, but drug addiction is still affecting Mon Valley communities. The Mon Valley Opioid Coalition will partner with local an...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Jamie’s Dream Team is looking for a few more volunteer team members. The McKeesport-based nonprofit group is seeking one or more occupational therapy specialist...