By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com West Penn Power removed a security camera from a telephone pole near the incinerator and former illegal dump site on Pine Alley in Donora because the electric com...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The effects of a new initiative to further creativity and expression in towns along the Monongahela River will soon be seen around the Valley thanks to a Pittsburgh-...

RANDY DIPIAZZA didn’t waste any words in announcing his departure from Charleroi council. He informed his colleagues at Thursday night’s meeting by leaving a handwritten note on his desk that simply r...

By Trib Total Media News Wire Services A final group of United Steelworkers members were scheduled to vote last night to give union leaders permission to call a strike. Locals in Indiana met throughou...

By Paul Peirce A Donora couple was jailed Friday after state police and agents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security arrested them for having a package containing suspected fentanyl delivered ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Gov. Tom Wolf and state Sen. Jim Brewster, D-McKeesport, announced Friday the state is releasing funding to help two cities in the Mon Valley reduce gun violence. Brew...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com When Lori “Lulu” Kendall finds a fur-ever home for one of her “babies” it is always bittersweet. Kendall, of Charleroi, who has always had a passion for rescuing cat...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com North Belle Vernon will host its second annual Community Fest Sept. 15 at Community Bank Park. Cody Ambrose, a North Belle Vernon resident and California University ...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com It will all be about man’s four-legged best friend when Cedar Creek Park unveils its newest attraction later this month. At 11:30 a.m. Sept. 26 a grand opening cerem...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com One week after her family’s Rostraver Township business was destroyed by a fire, Lee Gilmore is dealing with a new problem – looters. Hours before its usual Thursday...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A Charleroi councilman abruptly resigned from his elected post Thursday by leaving a letter that simply stated, “I quit.” During Thursday’s business meeting, council u...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com A Charleroi woman who accused her boyfriend of striking her toddler with a baby gate told a judge Thursday she fabricated the entire story because she was blackma...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Members of a Fallowfield Township family already facing charges of selling drugs to confidential informants have been charged again. Last month, Donald Franks, 49...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com Rumors surrounding the sale of the Rostraver Township Sewage Authority were seemingly put to rest Wednesday. During their monthly meeting, Rostraver commissioners un...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com A man is wanted by Donora police in connection with an alleged armed robbery on Murray Avenue just after 4:30 p.m. Tuesday. Lawrence Martin, 56, whose last known ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com While votes and talk of renovations of city-owned or maintained facilities largely dominated the McKeesport council agenda meeting Wednesday, there was also talk of de...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The Mon Valley Academy for the Arts will wrap up its second annual summer concert series at Chess Park in Monongahela this Sunday. MVAA President Mark Smith said the...

CONTRABAND HAS ALWAYS been a problem in prisons, but with the substances getting more dangerous, Pennsylvania is responding with tougher policies. State prisons were put on lockdown last week after a ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Firefighters in Glassport were feeling the heat in more than one way Tuesday. With temperatures in excess of 90 degrees, and the humidity making it feel closer to 95 d...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com Monessen School Board came under fire from residents and teachers Tuesday. The work session, which was attended by at least 20 members of the Monessen Education Asso...