By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com The Belle Vernon Area School Board discussed changes to career and technology education for about two hours Tuesday before deciding to add the matter to next we...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Charleroi students may have a more traditional prom than originally anticipated. With capacity restrictions on venues lightening up and vaccinations on the rise, stu...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Residents in Monongahela will see a familiar store return to the area this summer. The Washington City Mission recently announced its plans to open a new sto...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Bars, restaurants and other businesses in the fitness and hospitality industries are closer to getting back to normal, as the COVID-19 pandemic moves past the one-ye...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Anyone hoping to cool off at a community pool this summer is in luck. White Oak plans to open the Heritage Hill Park Pool on Memorial Day. Councilman George Pambacas a...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com New renovations at a park in Monongahela have caused residents to stand up to city officials and possibly form a recreation board. On Friday, Monongahela Cou...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The Coal Center man who is charged with the stabbing death of his neighbor in December will face the death penalty if convicted. Washington County’s First Assista...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com An ordinary fire in an unusual location is how Rostraver Central Assistant Fire Chief Justin Shawley describes the flames leaping from a catch basin Sunday nigh...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com North Charleroi Council will soon decide who will take care of refuse service in the borough. The borough’s contract with County Hauling was extended because the COV...

Father Kevin Dominik hands Irish coffee to Peggy Pellegrini, Rose Matianski and Tiffany Payne, all of Fallowfield Township after Sunday’s Irish prayer service at St. Andrew the Apostle Parish in Charl...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Pennsylvania is expected to receive $7.3 billion in discretionary funds through the federal American Rescue Plan stimulus bill, and local entities will be recei...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com White Oak council is expected to vote on awarding a paving project at tonight’s meeting and to discuss what to do with a large pile of old asphalt millings. At last we...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Charleroi Fire Chief Bob Whiten Jr. is amazed there were no injuries Sunday in a car accident and fire along Route 88 in Speers. The accident occurred around 5:...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Monongahela council approved two motions last week concerning the Mid Mon Valley Transit Authority. At Wednesday’s meeting, council members unanimously appro...

Grace Navarro reacts after Serra Catholic’s loss to Neshannock Friday night in the WPIAL Class 2A girls championship game at North Allegheny High School.

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Four inspections by the state Department of Environmental Protection over a 12-day period in February revealed seven violations at the Westmoreland Sanitary Lan...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com An Allegheny County councilman from the Mon Valley is urging local communities and others to look into applying for the ACT 152 Allegheny County Blight Removal Program...

By the MVI Sunshine Week, set for March 14-20, encourages Americans to recognize the importance of open government to a robust democracy.   Access to meetings, minutes and records of our elected and a...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com They decorate for Halloween and help Monongahela light up for Christmas, and this Easter, Angelo’s II and its employees will once again be the center of atte...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com New Eagle Council members heard complaints earlier this week from a resident who says local businesses routinely violate local and state environmental ordina...