Editor's Note: This story has been updated to include the link to register for the appointment-only clinic. By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A Monessen native will return to his hometown Wednesday t...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com An Easter egg hunt will be held with a twist Saturday in Elizabeth. Starting at 11 a.m., adults are invited to search for plastic eggs hidden throughout the dow...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Farmers markets on Friday afternoons have been a popular summer attraction in Monongahela for decades. And if the Monongahela Area Revitalization Corporation...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The McKeesport Area School Board recently looked toward beefing up its virtual learning platform for the 2021-22 school year. Elementary and high school students who p...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com New COVID-19 cases continue to trend upward in Pennsylvania now that the state has crossed the 1 million cases mark. The state has reported 7,178 new cases since ...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com R.J. Sokol was a fighter. For his friends, for his family and for his community. The former North Belle Vernon councilman was 64 when he died Friday after a battle w...

  By the Mon Valley Independent The winds whipped into the Mon Valley and across Southwestern Pennsylvania in the morning and afternoon hours Friday. “Strong wind continues to impact the region, with ...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com New Eagle received a surprise this week when the state Department of Environmental Protection told borough officials to close a popular dump site due to ille...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com North Belle Vernon will welcome spring this weekend, as area residents stroll Broad Avenue to find bargains, grab a bite to eat and enjoy the weather with their fami...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted this year’s trout fishing season and has resulted in things getting started two weeks earlier than usual. With hope that good times ...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com People living near the Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill had an opportunity Thursday to sit down with the new regional director of the state Department of Environm...

Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent Maddi Rae of North Belle Vernon, Mackenzie Habel of North Belle Vernon, Anabelle Grace of West Mifflin and Kaitlyn Waldmann of North Belle Vernon enjoyed the pl...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com There have been eight to 10 suspected drug overdoses in Washington County in the past three weeks, including two recently in Charleroi, and area residents are b...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Economic forecaster Joel L. Naroff used to be known in his field as “Dr.” Doom because of pessimistic outlooks.   However, as impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic begin ...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Charleroi Area students got a personal lesson Thursday on the early life of Andy Warhol. Earlier this year, Charleroi Area High School social studies teacher Mary An...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Students in the South Allegheny School District will soon have a bus transportation service. At a special meeting Thursday night, school directors unanimousl...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Greek-Americans from the White Oak and McKeesport area joined the worldwide celebration of the 200th anniversary of their ancestral homeland’s independence. Annunciati...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com White Oak council talked at last week’s meeting about several events taking place as the weather warms up. Aside from announcing Heritage Hill Pool is expected to open...

By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmvi.com As Mary Ann Konsugar hugged her mother Jean Ambrose in her apartment at the Residence at Hilltop on Wednesday, there was not a dry eye in the room. It had been more ...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Pennsylvania lawmakers on Wednesday finished a new first round of approvals for a constitutional amendment giving victims of child sexual abuse the power to fil...