By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Monongahela residents were given an update on the city’s proposed renovations as the Monongahela Main Street Program held its annual meeting Tuesday night. H...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Belle Vernon borough council adopted a new rental ordinance Tuesday that requires landlords to pay annual inspection and licensing fees for each rental unit they own. ...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Tuesday’s redevelopment authority meeting in Monessen lacked the drama — and police presence — of January’s meeting. Last month, city Administrator John Harhai an...

By Beth Hope-Cushey For the MV Independent Glassport borough council thanked state Rep. Bill Kortz, D-Dravosburg, Tuesday night for all his hard work on behalf of the borough.   Kortz announced last m...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A man attempting to repossess a vehicle in McKeesport was killed after he got pinned under a tow truck early Tuesday.   Andrew Sester, 42, was pronounced dead at the...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Three students from Mon Valley Career & Technology Center have been charged after allegedly working together to create a fake social media account to bully another stu...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com White Oak drew a standing- room-only crowd for Monday’s meeting as about three dozen animal lovers came to ask council to take steps to change an ordinance concerning ...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Property owners in North Charleroi Borough will be seeing an increase under the new tax ordinance adopted by council. The 2020 budget was reopened and a 1.3 mil...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Area business are teaming up to help veterans in need. Nearly a dozen businesses across the Mon Valley are participating in a winner-take-all fundraiser to benefit t...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com It may look like fun and games when students use i- Pads, robots and 3-D printers in the classroom. But to Dr. Todd Keruskin it looks like the education of the ...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Two men who are already being held at area jails were charged Monday with criminal homicide in connection with the death of a woman whose body was found last Se...

By STACY WOLFORD swolford@yourmvi.com As a young boy growing up in his tiny village on the Greek island of Chios, Meletios Gianniodis listened with wide eyes as his grandmother told him stories of a “...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Donora council expressed concern last week over a proposed skate park and the way fundraising started for a project that isn’t approved. Chantal Bey, who founded ...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com After teaching himself the blacksmithing trade, Andrew Takach is opening his workshop to other Mon Valley residents who might be interested. Takach, a West Newton re...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com A civil suit has been filed against Geibel Junior Senior High School, its principal and two male students, alleging that one of those students attempted to sexu...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@tribweb.com A Uniontown area woman was hurt after her vehicle went off the road and into the woods in Rostraver Township early Sunday morning, authorities said. Rostraver p...

Mike Darnay / Mon Valley Independent South Allegheny fan Abel Cook holds up a picture of Wesley Digiorgio during Friday’s WPIAL playoff game.

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com More homes will soon be torn down in Elks Place. Heavy flooding has plagued the area for more than a decade and township supervisors have been working to fix the pro...

By ERIC SEIVERLING eseiverling@yourmvi.com Valley residents will soon have a chance to step back in time — 1834 to be exact — when Rostraver Township’s historic Fells Church opens its doors after a le...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Monessen council voted this week to appoint a new fire chief and hire a new full-time police officer. Delmar Hepple was appointed as municipal fire chief, having ...