By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A portion of Bunola River Road in Forward Township will close indefinitely beginning today. According to Forward Township police, the road will be closed between Reg...

Photo courtesy of Monessen No. 1 Fire Dept. A Monessen house located on the 1100 block of State Street was damaged following a chimney fire Wednesday afternoon. Monessen No. 1, Monessen Hilltop and Ch...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Rudy loves to run down the halls in the dairy barn, or any where else his hooves will lead him. The Brown Swiss bull calf was born at Round Hill Park 6:35 p.m. ...

Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent The Pirate Pierogies stopped by Ringgold High School Wednesday as part of a special visit by several Pittsburgh Pirates. Shown with a few of the Pierogie mascot...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com McKeesport Area School Board hired two police officers for the district run police force. Board directors Joe Lopretto, Mindy Sturgess, James Brown, Tom Filotei, Ivan ...

Mike Darnay / For the Mon Valley Independent Thomas Jefferson boys basketball head coach Dom DeCicco’s wife and twin daughters showed their support by wearing jaguar apparel to Tuesday’s game. From le...

By EMILY BENNETT DILULLO ebennett@yourmvi.com Three Monessen police officers, along with City Administrator John Harhai and Councilman Gil Coles, attended Tuesday night’s Redevelopment Authority Board...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com An Elizabeth man is being held at the Allegheny County Jail on charges of arson following a fire Tuesday morning in Elizabeth. The Elizabeth Borough Police Depa...

By EMILY BENNETT DILULLO ebennett@yourmvi.com Belle Vernon Borough Solicitor Krisha DiMascio said plans to arrange a local and public meeting with PennDOT concerning the Route 906 closure have been un...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com State Rep. Bill Kortz, a Democrat who represents Pennsylvania’s 38th Legislative District, announced Tuesday that he will retire at the end of November. Kortz, 66, of ...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com The Charleroi Area School District is taking a close look at its security measures following an in-depth study conducted by the Pennsylvania State Police. “It w...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Nikki Calloway, a mental health counselor at UPMC McKeesport, understands the “questions and frustrations associated with living with an individual with a substance ab...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The Charleroi Regional Police Department is mourning the death of one of their own — retired K-9 Officer Rex. Rex, 14, died Monday. The beloved canine was taken to F...

By Matt Petras For the Mon Valley Independent Washington County Court of Common Pleas Judge Traci McDonald Kemp, the county’s first black woman elected to county-wide office, gave a Martin Luther King...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Students from five different Penn State University campuses in Western Pennsylvania joined forces in McKeesport Monday to complete service projects in memory of the li...

By EMILY BENNETT DILULLO ebennett@yourmvi.com Every girl deserves to feel like a princess on her prom night. That’s why Diann Donaldson, owner of Jazzy Boutique in North Belle Vernon, has made it her ...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A resale ministry based in West Newton and Elizabeth is having a months-long sale to clear out inventory to make room for new items. Marci Elsbury and her husband, R...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com This month, three churches in the Mid-Mon Valley officially joined forces in a merger to form St. Andrew the Apostle Catholic Church. The Rev. Kevin Dominik said the m...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com It seems that whenever or wherever Mon Valley residents see a need, they are quick to help. That quality applies even if the need is half a world away. Wildfire...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com A Ringgold High School senior has been recognized for a poem he wrote about Martin Luther King Jr. Roderick Wilson Jr. will be honored tonight by Carnegie Mellon ...