By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County is encouraging its customers to make a New Year’s resolution to drink more water. MAWC is partnering with Illinois-based...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com As Fayette County residents set their New Year’s resolutions, many are dedicating themselves to bettering their overall health.   In 2019, the Fayette Living Well Co...

By KAYLIE MOORE kmoore@yourmvi.com Half a dozen fire departments responded to a fully involved structure fire at 1319 Sycamore St., Monessen, Thursday night.   As firefighters from Monessen Hilltop, M...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com With the new year under way, Monessen council hopes state legislators’ resolutions will include removing Mayor Matt Shorraw and Councilman Gil Coles from office.   C...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Donora borough’s solicitor and council members want to know more about what is going on at the Mon Valley Sewage Authority. Ever since Donora resident Ruth Koontz...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Investigators believe an early Thursday morning fire in downtown McKeesport was deliberately set. McKeesport fire and police departments were called out 1:53 a.m. to t...

By Taylor brown tbrown@yourmvi.com A Carroll Township man accused of possessing more than 20 videos depicting child pornography is behind bars.   Chris R. Schibik, 51, of Nantucket Road is charged wit...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Improvements are coming to a local section of the Great Allegheny Passage, and trail council leaders say the upgrades will make for a more enjoyable bicycle ride as tr...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration has announced a new state program aimed at helping formerly incarcerated or arrested individuals “get their lives back on track.” Gov. T...

By Beth Hope-Cushey For the Mon Valley Independent New Eagle’s public works department will have to keep a daily work log for council’s review in 2019.   Council approved a motion by George Tirpak for...

Rockin’ on the Mon has become a summer tradition at the Monongahela Aquatorium, but that annual concert series and other events at the venue may be in jeopardy. Monongahela Aquatorium Innovations, the...

By taylor brown tbrown@yourmvi.com A Charleroi man accused of smashing his girlfriend’s head into the wall and assaulting her while she was holding her 3-year-old toddler on New Year’s Eve has been re...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com McKeesport Mayor Michael Cherepko fought back tears at Wednesday’s council meeting as he announced police Chief Bryan J. Washowich will be retiring next month. “He jus...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com A Smithton man accused of attacking police after fleeing the scene of a Washington Township vehicle accident is in jail. Joseph Michael Ballough, 36, of Skyline Driv...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com State police on Wednesday released its statewide enforcement statistics for the New Year’s holiday weekend. Troop B, which encompasses Allegheny, Fayette and Washing...

By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmvi.com Charleroi borough may have a multi-million dollar decision to make in 2019: To sell or not to sell the Authority of the Borough of Charleroi. Last month, Councilman ...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Last week, a Monessen high school junior with a passion for music was one of several students from throughout the region to use her talent to heal a hurting communit...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com While the rest of the Eastern time zone was watching the ball drop in Times Square, thousands of southwestern Pennsylvanians, including some Mon Valley residents, were...

By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmvi.com Mailing services could see a hike in prices this year. The United States Postal Service filed a notice with the Postal Regulatory Commission several weeks ago of cha...

By Kristie Linden klinden@yourmvi.com Mon Valley Sewage Authority’s year-end meeting last week ended in a shouting match over allegations that some board members had a private meeting with the solicit...