By Christine Haines chaines@yourmvi.com In a 2-1 vote Thursday,   the Washington County Commissioners agreed to purchase the Crossroads Center office building across the street from the county office ...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Students in the Monessen School District will soon have more accessible internet access outside of the classroom. Thanks to help from the Community Foundation of Wes...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Ringgold School District’s new Cyber Academy is growing, and officials are looking to expand the program to include its own teachers in the near future. Offi...

By Christine Haines chaines@yourmvi.com For the 17th straight year, it appears real estate taxes are holding steady in Rostraver Township, but property owners will be seeing a new tax on their bills t...

By Christine Haines chaines@yourmvi.com A Mon Valley business is taking steps to help make Christmas a little more cheerful for area children by hosting a holiday vendor show Saturday to benefit Toys ...

Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent Alan Roberts of Monessen rang the Salvation Army red-kettle bell Wednesday evening in front of Monessen Foodland. Each year, volunteers with seasonal bells stan...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com The Ringgold School District alerted parents Wednesday night that a decision to transition to full remote instruction due to the region’s rise in COVID-19 ca...

By PAULA REED WARD Trib Total Media An Allegheny County judge on Wednesday denied two petitions by Republican state Senate candidate Nicole Ziccarelli to throw out both provisional and faulty mail-in ...

Drivers dealt with snowflakes Tuesday afternoon as bands of snow moved through the Mon Valley. Another cold day is forecast today, with higher temperatures returning Thursday.

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com With Pennsylvania in the midst of a resurgence of COVID-19 cases, Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine announced a new mitigation plan Tuesday. “These targeted m...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com The COVID-19 pandemic will not stop Santa Claus from spreading holiday cheer in Monongahela this holiday season. The Monongahela Area Chamber of Commerce is ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com With case counts continuing to rise at the county, state and national levels, McKeesport Area School District announced Tuesday that — after consultation with public h...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Three Mon Valley school districts received a boost for improving student safety Monday when the Pennsylvania Department of Education awarded approximately $3...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Charleroi students will move to a two-week virtual learning model starting Monday in response to the rise of COVID-19 cases in the region. During Tuesday’s meeting, ...

By Christine Haines chaines@yourmvi.com The Belle Vernon Area School Board next week will consider a memorandum of understanding with the Belle Vernon Area Education Association that would allow teach...

By Christine Haines chaines@yourmvi.com Work began Monday on a new booster station for Pennsylvania American Water in Elizabeth Township. According to Heather DuBose, external affairs senior specialis...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com It wasn’t a rocket’s red glare, but flames lit the night sky Monday as local military veterans gathered to hold a flag burning and retirement ceremony at Mon...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The City of Monessen is months behind on getting its 2019 audit finished and there are conflicting stories about what may have caused the delay. When Councilman T...

By STACY WOLFORD swolford@yourmvi.com World War II veteran Frank Delia never talked about the horrors he faced after landing on Omaha Beach in Normandy two days after the historic June 6, 1944, invasi...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com High winds Sunday and early Monday tore down electric wires, felled trees and sent at least two area trampolines flying through the air. A trampoline ended up i...