For the MVI The Mon-Yough River Valley Rotary Club will sponsor an electronics recycling event from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oct. 17 at the Herman Mihalich Memorial Boat Launch, 1 Monongahela St., Monessen. ...

Meetings in local government next week Every week, the Mon Valley Independent editorial staff will share upcoming government meetings around the Mid-Mon Valley. If there’s an item or other event of pu...

WASHINGTON (AP) — During his first address to a Republican convention in 2016, Donald Trump had an audacious message to a nation yearning for change: “I alone can fix it.” A decade later and nearing t...

Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters says the GOP midterm election “convention” will be a “Trumpapalooza.” It’d be better if everyone called it that. American political conventions are o...

I-70 traffic impacts extended in Rostraver PennDOT District 12 announced upcoming traffic impacts on Interstate 70 between Exit 43 (Route 201 Fayette City) and Exit 46 (Route 51/I-70 Interchange), in ...

The state surpassed South Carolina, and doctors estimate the actual number of cases is even higher. Pennsylvania now leads the nation in confirmed cases of measles this year as an outbreak of the high...

A Rostraver Township woman is accused of stabbing her boyfriend following a domestic incident Thursday. Kelsey Ann Pinnell, 31, was charged by Rostraver Township police with attempted criminal homicid...

State police, Belle Vernon • Kristy Anna Crouse, 42, of Monessen was charged by Magisterial District Judge John Christner with intentional possession of a controlled substance by a person not register...

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States have different requirements about teaching the historic events of that day. By staff and wire reports For three days this summer, teachers converged at the Flight 93 National Memorial in remote...

Editor’s Note: Mon Valley Independent Managing Editor Stacy Wolford was a reporter for The Valley Independent when she covered the Flight 93 crash from Shanksville on Sept. 11, 2001. She has returned ...

They would address a longrunning issue in the borough if they’re approved next month. Donora is one step closer to taking another crack at regulating backyard chickens, ducks and goats. Three years af...

Charleroi firefighters responded to the State Street crossing in Lower Speers around 9:05 p.m. Thursday for a vehicle struck by a train. No injuries were reported, but several crossings in Speers and ...

A new poll finds that the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks are still among the most significant historical events in many Americans’ lives. By the AP Twenty-five years later, the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, are...

The school district will try to get someone from Krise Transportation to address the public next week. Krise Transportation was a no show Thursday during West Mifflin Area school board’s work session ...

The annual event will take place Saturday morning in Charleroi. Organizers of the Charleroi Little Great Race are warning participants about an unofficial registration website ahead of Saturday’s even...

Firefighters responded to a reported garage fire at 906 Lincoln Ave. in Charleroi at approximately 12:20 p.m. Thursday and found a burning garbage can that had spread to the exterior of the garage. Cr...

A Monessen student was among the artists who worked on the steel sculpture located at the college’s campus near Youngwood. By QUINCEY CATULLO TribLive A steel sculpture — an American flag flanked by h...

Glassport • Ashley Lucille Clarke, 38, of Glassport was charged with aggravated assault, simple sassily, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct stemming from an alleged incident Wednesday, court reco...

The new funding is to buy weapons detection systems, metal detectors and ballistic shields. By JUSTIN VELLUCCI TribLive Harrisburg on Wednesday granted $50,000 to the South Allegheny School District t...