By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com After a fire destroyed a Monessen home Saturday morning, a family of eight is now starting over with help from the Mon Valley community. Municipal Fire Chief Chris R...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The Charleroi Area School District Education Foundation is preparing for the sixth volume of the group’s biggest fundraiser. A Blast from the Past Volume VI, schedul...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Allegheny County has far fewer local races for the May 21 primary election that do not have enough candidates to fill open positions compared to other Mon Valley ...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com “Grease” is the word in Monessen School District this week. The Monessen High School/Middle School Group for the Performing Arts will host its annual spring musical ...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com Monessen narrowly avoided disaster Friday as a gas line on a demolition site started leaking.   The problem arose as crews from the Connellsville-based Ritenour and ...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com An ongoing Monessen road construction project continues to impact downtown businesses.   PennDOT officials have hosted meetings with elected officials, city resident...

By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmv.com After nearly eight years of contract negotiations, two neighboring municipalities have reached a new agreement on sanitary sewage service. On Friday, the Municipal Au...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com There are several hotly contested races in Westmoreland County as the May 21 primary draws near. Nine people are running for two, four-year seats on the county bo...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com McKeesport firefighters released this year’s design for the McKeesport Firefighters Public Safety Initiative fund T-shirt sale. The McKeesport Firefighters Public Safe...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Motorists who travel along Walnut Street in McKeesport will notice that the traffic flow during morning and evening rush hour has been improved, according to city elec...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Dr. Michele Dowell will not be leaving Belle Vernon Area School District after all. Dowell has accepted the position of BVA superintendent and has turned down the...

By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmv.com State Rep. Bud Cook, R-West Pike Run Township, will soon have two new office locations in the Mon Valley. Starting April 1, Cook will open a new district office in Be...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com As the May 21 primary draws near, the Mon Valley Independent will let voters know who is running for county and local races. In the race for Washington County Com...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com White Oak Mayor Ina Jean Marton commended two White Oak police officers and other first responders at this week’s borough council meeting for their role in preventing ...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com About 50 community members filled the Salvation Army’s Mon Valley Citadel in Monessen Wednesday for the city’s first comprehensive plan meeting. As part of the imple...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Elizabeth borough’s former police chief, who is accused of abusing his role to steal countless stamp bags of heroin from the evidence room and mishandling coins collec...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com While the demolition of two buildings next to the Coyle Theater in Charleroi will soon be complete, the fate of the iconic building is uncertain. The buildings at 33...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com The paraprofessionals of Ringgold School District are asking for a better compensation package and the administration said it must wait until the 2019-20 budget i...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com “One a penny. Two a penny. Hot cross buns.”   Those are some of the lyrics the children at Christy Park United Methodist Church sang Tuesday while they made hot cross ...

By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmv.com An investigation led by the Washington County District Attorney’s Office could soon begin at Mon Valley Sewage Authority.   During a meeting last week, board member Y...