By JIM BUSCH For the Mon Valley Independent Julia Amendola has had a busy week. In addition to volunteering at the Saint Vincent de Paul Society, making pirogies at her church, bingo and her weekly gi...

By Beth Hope-Cushey For the Mon Valley Independent Carroll Township supervisors heard about storm-water runoff concerns from three residents this week. Residents Dennis Fedorchak, Gary Leavengood and ...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com Monessen’s police pension fund saga has reached a partial conclusion. Last week, council members Dave Feehan and Anthony Orzechowski and Lois Thomas unanimously appr...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Although none of its members were present, Versailles Mayor Jim Fleckenstein commended the borough’s volunteer fire department at Tuesday’s council meeting for a quick...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Elizabeth Forward School District has improved its financial rating, according to district officials. Moody’s Investors Service, a business and financial services...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com McKeesport’s K-9 Unit is one of eight in southwestern Pennsylvania-based receiving cash thanks to Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. An announcement was made Mon...

By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmvi.com Monessen School Board will vote on the 2019-20 operating budget for the Westmoreland Intermediate Unit next week. The proposed spending plan of $6,044,170 is about 1...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The Allegheny Land Trust is again encouraging nature enthusiasts who live in the Mon Valley to lace up their boots, get outside and lend a hand in helping improve the ...

By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmvi.com Two Mon Valley high schools will be part of a regional science competition today. The Southwestern Pennsylvania Regional Science Olympiad will be held in the Convoca...

By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmvi.com A Belle Vernon business owner is hoping to put the Mon Valley on the map as a go-to tourist destination.   Melanie Stringhill Paterson, owner of the Good Ol’ Days Ho...

By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmvi.com Monongahela Police are searching for the driver of a vehicle that crashed into a 7-Eleven Monday morning.   Owner Rhonda Miller-Rachocki said a white jeep, driven by...

By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmvi.com A hillside in Forward Township won’t stop moving. Bunola River Road is closed once again, just three days after it was re-opened following a Feb. 13 landslide.   Mor...

By JEFF OLIVER For the MV Independent Larry Covino has only lived in Donora a short time, having moved into the community in late November 2018. But, when you talk to the Boston, Mass., native, he can...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com A local police chief was honored Monday during the annual Friends of Scouting breakfast. Carroll Township police Chief Paul Brand received the 2019 Mon Valley Dis...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com Rostraver Township residents will soon experience changes to their garbage collection statements.   Township planner Tamira M. Spedaliere said Monday that in 2019, r...

By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com The president of the Elizabeth Township Board of Commissioners announced a pair of agreements with a Chicago-based company that intends to develop a 550-megawatt gas...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A Charleroi man was killed early Saturday morning in a fire at his residence, and police said he was in the front yard covered by flames when they arrived. Washington ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Southwestern Pennsylvania saw snow accumulation Sunday, and the Mon Valley wasn’t immune from it. Snow started falling in the Valley early Sunday afternoon and continu...

By Rich Cholodofsky A Westmoreland County judge on Friday rejected the appeal of a Rostraver man serving a life prison term for the 2015 murder of his sister’s boyfriend. Billy Ray Boggs Jr., 52, has,...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com One firefighter was injured during a two-alarm house fire in Elizabeth Township that broke out early Saturday morning. The Elizabeth Township Fire Department could not...