By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Tenacity and persistence appear to be the key words in the Belle Vernon Area School District. After more than a year of contract talks, including two marathon s...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com In response to the coronavirus pandemic, the Authority of the Borough of Charleroi is adopting a series of temporary policies and procedures. Now through April ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com In an effort to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus, the Office of Commonwealth Libraries has directed all public libraries in Pennsylvania to close for routine serv...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The day before Washington County became the first in Western Pennsylvania to have a positive case of coronavirus, Donora council formed its committee to combat th...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Allegheny County medical centers are responding to the outbreak of the coronavirus. Allegheny Health Network’s Jefferson Hospital in Jefferson Hills and Kane...

enn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent Fifth-grade Girl Scouts from Charleroi Area Elementary School were out in the spring-like weather Thursday morning to raise the flag. From left are Kasmira Banks...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com The Belle Vernon Area Education Association and Belle Vernon Area School Board reached agreement on a new five-year contract late Thursday, preventing a strike ...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Local school districts will likely update their coronavirus response plans once superintendents participate in a video conference this morning with the Pennsylvan...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com As the coronavirus spreads throughout the state, physicians are urging area residents to take precautionary measures — and some religious and educational organizatio...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Last month, parishioners from Sampson’s Mills Presbyterian Church celebrated “being blessed” by performing acts of kindness for their neighbors and the people who serv...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A majority of the criminal charges filed this week in an animal abuse case have been withdrawn. More than 1,300 charges were filed Tuesday against Christie Dee Harr,...

By Eric Seiverling eseiverling@yourmvi.com Annual high school spring musicals are always a special time, allowing students to display their talents while signifying the end of the school year is neari...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The Monongahela Area Revitalization Corp. and the city police department will team up to raise money to outfit all officers with bulletproof vests. Out of the dep...

By ERIC SEIVERLING AND JEFF STITT eseiverling@yourmvi.comjstitt@yourmvi.com With the COVID-19 strain of coronavirus on the minds of people across the globe and with the World Health Organization decla...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com McKeesport Little Theater will mark Friday the 13th with the opening of a mystery/thriller play written by Louise Fletcher. The theater’s production of “Nightwatch” pr...

By the MVI Monessen firefighters spent nearly three hours at the scene of a fire in a vacant house early Wednesday. According to Municipal Fire Chief Delmar Hepple, firefighters battled the fire at 62...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com In a show of solidarity 75 to 80 members of the Belle Vernon Area Education Association lined the sidewalks around the Belle Vernon Area Administration Building...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com It took longer than expected, but former Monessen city controller Wayne Vlasic is now a certified district judge. Vlasic, elected judge in November’s general...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com In a move Charleroi officials claim is way overdue, the Authority of the Borough of Charleroi will soon help the borough financially with the maintenance of sewer li...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com You might see one or two fish — maybe a red one and a blue one; a cat wearing a hat who’s hanging out with two blue-haired creatures that can only be described as thin...