By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com McKeesport council recently approved a new contract with the city’s firefighters. The four-year pact requires firefighters to pay a deductible for their health coverag...

By Matt Petras For the MV Independent Joined by more than 30 people Saturday, Rev. John Parker held a cross made of frozen holy water and tossed it into the Monongahela River to dissolve.   This act c...

By Eric Seiverling eseiverling@yourmvi.com It may be hard to believe today with players swearing, spitting and serving suspensions, but baseball was once called “a gentlemen’s sport.” Monongahela nati...

By EMILY BENNETT DILULLO ebennett@yourmvi.com To help offset any financial stressors for the family of Tyler Garrity, a family friend has organized a restaurant benefit in honor of the Monongahela tee...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Line painting will take place this week along Route 48 (Scenery Drive) in Elizabeth Township.   The work will take place between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. today through...

By Paul Peirce Trib Total Media More than 300 emergency medical technicians, paramedics, firefighters and police officers gathered under a steady rain Friday in Monongahela to honor Matthew C. Smelser...

By EMILY BENNETT DILULLO ebennett@yourmvi.com Monessen Councilman Anthony Orzechowski plans to ask council member Don Gregor and City Administrator John Harhai to step down from their positions in lig...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Representatives from U.S. Steel joined state Sen. Jim Brewster, state Rep. Bill Kortz, leaders of the West Mifflin Community Foundation and local officials on Friday t...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com After receiving several complaints from McKeesport residents earlier this week that their garbage hadn’t been picked up, County Hauling has increased its number of res...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Two men have been charged in connection with a bar fight in McKeesport last month that nearly turned fatal. Brock Juwan Cochran, 29, of McKeesport, was arrested by All...

Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent Grabbing some food during halftime of Thursday’s girls basketball game at Belle Vernon Area, from left, are Andrew Pacak of North Belle Vernon, Zade Zadrozny of...

By EMILY BENNETT DILULLO ebennett@yourmvi.com After a tumultuous reorganization meeting Monday, some members of Monessen city council and new city employees are working to restructure the city, while ...

By the Mon Valley Independent On Thursday, WTAE — a Mon Valley Independent news partner — discovered that new Monessen city administrator John Harhai is a board member at Grandview Cemetery, where Cou...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The U.S. Honor Flag has arrived in Rostraver Township to honor Matthew Smelser, a local paramedic, father and friend to many who was killed in the line of duty while...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com At least one of U.S. Steel’s legal battles over the Clairton Coke Works may soon be coming to a conclusion. On Dec. 4, the company reached a proposed settlement agreem...

By Rich Cholodofsky Trib Total Media Westmoreland County Commissioners Sean Kertes and Gina Cerilli on Thursday appointed a new member to the county’s housing authority board of directors, a move that...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The Mon Valley Sewage Authority lost its second board member this week as Donora’s newest appointee resigned Thursday. Rick DeLattre was appointed by Donora counc...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A Rostraver Township man is accused of beating his girlfriend after leaving a bar in the township early Thursday. Braxton M. Stedman, 36, of Debbie Lane, is charged ...

By Eric Seiverling eseiverling@yourmvi.com UPMC is preparing for round two of its plan to build a new medical complex in Jefferson Hills. The medical giant was turned down by the borough’s zoning boar...

These Ringgold Elementary School South students spent a cold evening warming up their roller skates at the Valley Skating Center in Donora. Shown, from left, are Ryker Koval, 6, of Carroll Township, L...