By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com Some Elizabeth Township residents who don’t want to include a rezoning hearing as part of their pre-Christmas plans made an unsuccessful plea Monday to have the proc...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com Belle Vernon Area School Board is “deadlocked” on how to permanently fill its superintendent position before next school year. Acting Superintendent Dr. Michele Dowe...

By LES HARVATH For the Mon Valley Independent He is a member of California Area High School’s “The Future is Mine” club, and soon, Nathan Todd will have his shirt tail cut off. It’s a tradition that d...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com On the heels of the Allegheny County Health Department advising the public of an outbreak of hepatitis A in the Greater Pittsburgh area, the state Secretary of Health ...

IT WAS BAD ENOUGH the Mon Valley got blasted by an early taste of winter last week with a nasty storm, but it was an especially tough day for the rural community of Fallowfield Township. An early-morn...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com A community tradition for more than 30 years, Sunday’s annual Rostraver Township Christmas Celebration drew hundreds of guests from across the Mid-Mon Valley. Sponso...

By TAYLOR BROWN  tbrown@yourmvi.com Three local businesses are “banding together” to host a benefit for all five Elizabeth Township fire departments. Sandy Sanderson, owner of Court Time Sports Center...

By TAYLOR BROWN  tbrown@yourmvi.com Three local businesses are “banding together” to host a benefit for all five Elizabeth Township fire departments. Sandy Sanderson, owner of Court Time Sports Center...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com In all its years perched along the hillside on Evans Avenue, UPMC Mc-Keesport has never had a main entrance, according to administrators. From the time the hospital wa...

By TAYLOR BROWN  tbrown@yourmvi.com “Thank your volunteer firefighters.” That’s the simple message from Fallowfield Township supervisors after learning they lost three snow plow trucks in a municipal ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A seminar will be held in McKeesport to help residents obtain information about the state’s Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, known as LIHEAP. On the heels of...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com The U.S. National Guard has approved Monessen’s request for assistance with the emergency demolition of a former firemen’s club. Councilman Dave Feehan said Friday t...

By Les Harvath For the Mon Valley Independent Long before their respective scholastic tennis and volleyball seasons began this school year, a trio of California Area High School seniors were on their ...

By Bob Pajich  For the Mon Valley Independent Liberty Borough Mayor Larry Sikorski is encouraging the South Allegheny School Board to fix what he sees as a gap in security at the district’s Early Chil...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com A Maryland woman accused of harassing a Monessen woman by posting fake Internet ads seeking a sperm donor has been sentenced to three years probation. Fantazzia Tish...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com While there are still a few steps to go before a winner is officially announced in the race for the state House’s 49th Legislative District, it appears incumbent ...

By KAYLIE MOORE and TAYLOR BROWN kmoore@yourmvi.com, tbrown@yourmvi.com A mix of wintry weather swept through the Mid-Mon Valley Thursday night, causing a handful of accidents as motorists tried to na...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com Rostraver Township commissioners on Thursday introduced a tentative 2019 general fund budget that does not include a tax increase. As it stands, the balanced budget ...

By Rich Cholodofsky Melvin Knight will be returned to death row after a Westmoreland County jury Thursday night condemned him to die by lethal injection. The Westmoreland County jury of six men and si...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com A Monessen man is in prison after allegedly being captured on surveillance video sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy. Monessen police charged Michael Robert Christ...