By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Magic City Riverfront Park is expected to open in time for the Fourth of July. The project, spearheaded by the Mon Valley Alliance, will be at the site of Charleroi’...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com It’s been almost four years since Donora began working on the potential rails to trails project pitched by state Rep. Bud Cook, R-West Pike Run Township, in the e...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Residents in New Eagle are fed up with a recent rash of vandalism at Tubby Hall Park, and the New Eagle Community Action Group will soon decide what steps to...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Just in time for Arbor Day, Tree Pittsburgh will be bringing a little shade, and the many benefits of trees, to the Tube City. Tree Pittsburgh, an environmental nonpro...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Rostraver Township and Smithton officials have the same goal in mind, when it comes to the Great Allegheny Passage: they want people to know exactly where the t...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com For Christians across the United States, Easter services on Sunday will reflect an extra measure of joy as the nation experiences rising optimism after a year of ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Former McKeesport Mayor Louis “Lou” Washowich had a tough job, but he always rose to a challenge, according to Senior Magisterial District Judge Tom Brletic, one of th...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Easter dinners were distributed to 200 senior citizens in four communities Friday in memory of a West Newton woman. The meals were packaged by the Monessen Salv...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Not all Easter Bunnies have long ears; in Forward Township, they come in police uniforms. Chief Travis Stoffer and Officer Frank Barrerio took a break from thei...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Twenty-five years ago today the FBI arrested Ted Kaczynski, the notorious “Unabomber,” ending his 17-year crime spree that killed three people and wounded 24 ot...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com State and federal health officials eased additional COVID restrictions Friday that will coincide with the loosening of other restrictions this weekend. The C...

Regina Kudla of Rostraver Township looks through the books Thursday afternoon at Rostraver Public Library. Wintry weather forced Valley residents to find indoor activities, and cooler temperatures wil...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Mon Valley school districts want to make sure funding through the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund is put to good use.   Th...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Rostraver Township Commissioners’ President John Lorenzo is pressing the state for more answers regarding Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill. Lorenzo said he contac...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Mother nature played a cruel April Fool’s Day joke Thursday, dropping the temperature as well as some snow. Falling temperatures and wet roads Thursday night made for ...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com President Joe Biden visited Pittsburgh Wednesday to reveal his $2.3 trillion plan to rebuild the country’s infrastructure, a move some local officials are ca...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com A 16-year-old Boy Scout approached Donora Council during Thursday’s work session to seek permission and support for his Eagle Scout project. Braydon Wilcher, who ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The Clairton Coke Works has been issued a notice of violation for exceedances of hydrogen sulfide ambient air quality standards. In a prepared statement Thursday, Alle...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The McKeesport Area school board unanimously voted last month to approve a tax amnesty program in an attempt to collect on delinquent real estate taxes. The program, w...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Bus companies currently serving two school districts in the region will receive state funding to purchase new buses. Among the statewide recipients of more than...