By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Under the shadow of today’s one-year anniversary of the death of a Mon Valley first responder, Pennsylvania is looking ahead to enforcing a new law that will...

By Christine Haines chaines@yourmvi.com Elizabeth Township Commissioners reorganized Monday, with Dr. Kyle Walk stepping down as chairman. “It has been a pleasure working with the township this year,”...

Tony Flocker of Buena Vista jumped into the cold water of the Youghiogheny River Saturday for a Polar Plunge challenge.

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com The Washington County Community Foundation has awarded a $50,000 grant to the Greater Washington County Food Bank to purchase shelf-stable protein for distri...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com In the first two days of 2021, there were 16,967 new cases of COVID-19 and more than 5,600 patients are hospitalized across the state.   Since March 2019, there h...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com There were concerns that COVID-19 would put a damper on this year’s light display for Make-A-Wish in Elizabeth Township, but the seventh year for the display at...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com During a Zoom meeting last month, the Allegheny Regional Asset District board   approved its $101.4 million 2021 budget. And as it has for several years in a row, the ...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Residents from across the Mon Valley will bring in the New Year by jumping into the Monongahela River. Organizations in Coal Center, Glassport and Belle Vernon will ...

By MARK SCOLFORO Associated Press Dick Thornburgh, who as Pennsylvania governor won plaudits for his cool handling of the 1979 Three Mile Island crisis and as U.S. attorney general restored credibilit...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com The members of local rock band SiLK9 are glad 2020 is over. To prove their mettle, the band is scheduled to release its first single of the new year, “Tear M...

By Christine Haines chaines@yourmvi.com Some family traditions can be a little untraditional, like the one Lori Sauritch of North Belle Vernon has carried out with her grandchildren for decades. Sauri...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Pennsylvania closed out 2020 with more than 640,320 confirmed COVID-19 cases and more than 15,970 deaths. The U.S. case counts hit the 20 million mark as the country r...

By staff and wire reports Virtual school. Shuttered businesses. Mask mandates. “Stay calm, stay home and stay safe.” Like the rest of the globe, the Mon Valley and the rest of Pennsylvania struggled m...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A new year is upon us, and a few Mon Valley lawmakers say they’re aware 2020 was a rough year for Pennsylvanians. Small businesses, families and individuals, municipal...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Monongahela is getting a small sampling of Asian art thanks to the city’s Main Street Program. The program’s Fine Art Gallery, located at 221 W. Main St., cu...

By Christine Haines chaines@yourmvi.com Rostraver Township’s fire departments received a bit of financial security in the 2021 budget, with the commissioners adopting a 3-mill fire tax for the first t...

By Christine Haines chaines@yourmvi.com Elizabeth Borough Council Wednesday adopted a $1.08 million budget with a 1.5 mill property tax increase. The new real estate tax rate will be 10 mills, up from...

By Christine Haines chaines@yourmvi.com The Forward Township Supervisors met in special session Wednesday to adopt the 2021 budget. The $1.5 million spending plan was adopted unanimously with no incre...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com For many children throughout the Mon Valley, Santa Claus has just left the building. After a 31-year tenure as coordinator for the Mon Valley Leathernecks’ T...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com After a nine-day search, the man accused of shooting a McKeesport police officer is in custody. In a release issued just before 7 p.m. Tuesday, Allegheny County police...