By Beth Hope-Cushey For the Mon Valley Independent About two years ago, Josh Taylor and fiancee Danielle Femc Vogt found the perfect home for their family in Carroll Township. Across the street from t...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Charleroi Mayor Edward Bryner and volunteer fire Chief Robert Whiten Jr. gave borough council a brief update Wednesday night about a situation that has been causing re...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Monongahela council will consider a new mixed-use zoning plan that would leave the Monongahela Elementary Center and surrounding parcels as they are and would ins...

By Eric Seiverling eseiverling@yourmvi.com For months prior to the Nov. 5 general elections, municipal and school board candidates spent countless hours campaigning and getting their messages across t...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com The Ringgold School Board Wednesday voted to table action on naming the middle school auditorium after being petitioned by parents and students in the district ...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com An odor of gas has returned in Charleroi, and Charleroi Volunteer Fire Department Chief Robert Whiten Jr. said his crew has exhausted all options and resources to he...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A new appointment allowed the Mon Valley Sewage Authority to resume business Tuesday night after several weeks of gridlock. Last week, Monessen City Council appointe...

By EMILY BENNETT DILULLO ebennett@yourmvi.com Fifteen-year-old Devon McGhen wants to make Christmas the most wonderful time of the year for those who might not feel that special cheer year-round. For ...

By eric seiverling eseiverling@yourmvi.com North Belle Vernon officials are moving forward with the first phase of the borough’s streetscape project, with council setting an opening bid date and appro...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Another member of the Pagans Motorcycle Club charged in connection with a brutal attack in Charleroi earlier this year has accepted a plea agreement. Brian Kerusk...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Monessen school board unanimously voted Tuesday to reschedule its reorganization meeting. It was slated to be held Dec. 2, but instead will be moved to 5 p.m. Dec. 3. ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The City of McKeesport collaborated with McKeesport Area School District and the Boys & Girls Club of Western Pennsylvania on Monday to honor veterans in a big way. Th...

By Brian C. Rittmeyer Trib Total Media A record-breaking bitter cold snap and a bit of snow are on tap for the Mon Valley and the entire Pittsburgh region today. Temperatures during the day and into t...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Veterans Day was marked Monday at Elizabeth Forward Middle School with a patriotic assembly honoring area veterans. About three dozen veterans from the communit...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com The Forward Township supervisors adopted a resolution Monday that would allow volunteer firefighters in the township to receive a tax credit of up to $250 for t...

By eric seiverling eseiverling@yourmvi.com Jefferson Hills residents will soon see new pavilions located throughout the borough’s parks. The question is, who will build them? At its public meeting Mon...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com McKeesport was among the stops earlier this year on a “Poverty Listening Tour” conducted by state Sen. Art Haywood, D-Wyncote. Haywood, the Democratic chairman of the ...

By Beth Hope-Cushey For the MV Independent Carroll Township residents may face a nominal tax increase next year as supervisors approved a tentative 2020 budget last week.   Carroll Township secretary ...

By Gina C.   Lynn Twin Rivers Chamber of Commerce For the third year in a row, the Twin Rivers Chamber of Commerce (formerly Greater Rostraver Chamber) has sponsored a day trip around the Mon Valley t...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The morning of Nov. 2 was cold and frosty, but McKeesport Trail Commission volunteers and city administrators and workers were hard at work beautifying Renziehausen Pa...