By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The McKeesport Unit of the NAACP held its annual Freedom Dinner recently, honoring two Mon Valley residents, along with a community organization and an area business. ...

By EMILY BENNETT DILULLO ebennett@yourmvi.com October is usually decked out in pink ribbons for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but it is also designated with a purple ribbon for Domestic Violence Awar...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Over the past 46 years, Monongahela has had four mayors, myriad council members, two city halls and one Carole Foglia.   After all these years, Carole, the longti...

By EMILY BENNETT DILULLO ebennett@yourmvi.com Non-electronic voting systems in Pennsylvania are nearing the end of their life, and Washington County voters will cast their ballots on new electronic ma...

For the Mon Valley Independent Austin Davis grew up hearing stories about how prosperous the Mon Valley was in the 1950s and 1960s. “That’s never been my reality,” said Davis, who recently turned 30. ...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com In August, the World’s Largest Wedding Cookie Table established a Guinness world record in Monongahela with 88,425 cookies. The effort to finalize the paperwork t...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Allegheny County police are requesting the public’s assistance with finding two suspects linked to a shooting Thursday in McKeesport. McKeesport and ACPD homicide dete...

By eric seiverling eseiverling@yourmvi.com Firefighters face many hazards in the line of duty, such as smoke inhalation, burning buildings and collapsing ceilings. But thanks to a $60,000 grant from t...

By EMILY BENNETT DILULLO ebennett@yourmvi.com As winter approaches, the Belle Vernon Borough Friends of Recreation Board is already gearing up for next year’s Monongahela River Community Fest.   “We a...

Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent Olivia Cooper, Aaliyah Rice and Sydney Phillips, all of Monessen, were bundled up for Thursday’s Charleroi-Monessen middle school soccer game at Myron Pottios S...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com A member of the Mon Valley Sewage Authority submitted a letter of resignation in early September, but two board members won’t vote to accept it. A motion was made...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com A community meeting held by ArcelorMittal drew about a dozen members of the public to Monessen High School Thursday evening. Division manager Randy Shelton gave...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A fatal shooting at a Family Dollar store in McKeesport caused a large police presence on Versailles Avenue Thursday morning. Dwayne Fuller, 24, of Homestead was prono...

By EMILY BENNETT DILULLO ebennett@yourmvi.com Jim Smith and Wayne Vlasic are vying for an open position as magisterial district judge that encompasses the City of Monessen and the Pricedale and Webste...

By Matt Petras For the Mon Valley Independent A few groups, including the Donora Historical Society and Smog Museum, are offering a walk through what used to be the Donora Zinc Works, an important loc...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com McKeesport officials and city employees along with students from the University of Pittsburgh will spend Saturday cleaning up litter and debris in and around the city’...

By eric seiverling eseiverling@yourmvi.com Administrators in the West Jefferson Hills School District are tired of rumors and misinformation circulating on social media, and superintendent Dr. Michael...

By EMILY BENNETT DILULLO ebennett@yourmvi.com Mon River Arts in Elizabeth would like, if they may, to take you on a strange journey. Just in time for Halloween, scientists, aliens and heroes will perf...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Model Cleaners in Charleroi was struck by lightning Wednesday. Charleroi fire Chief Robert Whiten Jr. said the call – thankfully – was reported at 7:56 a.m. When lig...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The board of Donora Public Library, during a special open house Wednesday, showed off their plans for an expansion of the Meldon Avenue-based library. The board showed...