By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Four McKeesport families had to be evacuated from a crumbling apartment building in the city’s Grandview neighborhood Thursday night. The building, which was condemned...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com The annual Raise Your Voice Music and Arts Festival returns May 18 to Schooner Youth Center in Monessen. Presented by Monessen Communities That Care, the Mon Valley ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Walking into Clancy’s Pub on Sunday, guests couldn’t help but notice a sea of people wearing shirts that said “This T-shirt helped keep a police officer safe.” Those p...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts is searching for the state’s most creative communities. Through the new Pennsylvania Creative Communities initiative, the group ...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Donora is getting closer to having a park at the intersection of Seventh Street and McKean Avenue. The park will sit on a couple parcels of land that the borough ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com U.S. Steel announced Thursday it will invest more than $1 billion to create two state-of-the-art facilities at its Mon Valley Works. Company leaders say the investment...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com An audit of Monessen’s finances detailing its $7.2 million debt has been made public, but the city’s solicitor said its release is “premature.”   The Mon Valley Inde...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com A Monessen man’s federal lawsuit against California University of Pennsylvania and the borough’s police department has been dismissed.   U.S. Magistrate Judge Lisa P...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com American spirit lives in Washington County. That’s the slogan behind the new marketing campaign unveiled Thursday by the Washington County Tourism Promotion Agency, ...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The Charleroi Area School District will soon make an investment in safety involving more than a half-million dollars. The district announced Thursday that it was awa...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Donora is preparing to seek bids for the feasibility study of the potential Mon Valley Coal and Steel Heritage Trail.   The borough received $100,000 in grant fun...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com There is officially a new captain in at the McKeesport Fire Department. Mayor Michael Cherepko promoted firefighter Jason Arndt to the position of captain at Wednesday...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Rostraver Township commissioners told residents Wednesday night they are investigating complaints about the Westmoreland Sanitary Landfill. Several residents spok...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A Charleroi council agenda meeting turned tense on Wednesday after a local legislator switched the script for his intended discussion and began campaigning for chang...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The actors of the Mon River Arts group are gearing up to tell a musical fable about “the ultimate show biz mother.” Mon River Arts will present “Gypsy” Friday and Satu...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Plans are almost finalized for the fourth annual Bring Your Child to Work Day next week at Charleroi Area School District. The student-led program began in 2016 unde...

By Rich Cholodofsky For the MV Independent A Monessen man could serve up to six years in prison as terms of a guilty plea pitched Tuesday for his role in an early-morning shootout in which police say ...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Fresh produce won’t be in short supply for Mon Valley residents thanks to a new partnership between the Greater Washington County Food Bank and Grow Mon Valley. The ...

By Matt Petras For the MV Independent The need to make an unexpected career change prompted Mon Valley native Gina Geffert Beck to start an animal sanctuary. She learned in 2015 that she has Guillain-...

By Matt Petras For the MV Independent Mon Valley drug overdose deaths declined 59 percent from 2017 to 2018 after a 21 percent increase the previous year, the Mon Valley Opioid Coalition revealed at i...