Administrators say it’s necessary to balance the budget without job cuts. Property owners in the Charleroi Area School District will see a slight rise in their taxes next year. On Thursday, school boa...

By JUSTIN VELLUCCI Trib Total Media The Allegheny County Health Department on Thursday fined U.S. Steel nearly $80,000 for air pollution the department said its Clairton Coke Works created in the firs...

Township officials say it will be easier to deal with absentee landlords. Carroll Township’s new quality of life ordinance will help supervisors get properties cleaned up in the township without so mu...

By RENATTA SIGNORINI Trib Total Media For Trish Walch, living at Odin View Apartments in Hempfield is a dream come true. It’s in large part a nod to the Westmoreland County Housing Authority building’...

The PROSPER Act promises sustainable energy jobs for areas with high unemployment in natural resources & mining sectors. Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato expressed support for legislation sp...

The school board will search for replacement coaches before officially accepting them. Elizabeth Forward school board voted Wednesday to deny the resignations of two middle school soccer coaches until...

The tribute to those who lost their lives in the War on Terror will be displayed until noon Monday. With the sun shining down and engines roaring, Roscoe American Legion riders and friends proudly esc...

More than 2,660 entries were submitted in the annual statewide contest. By the MVI The Mon Valley Independent earned three Keystone Press Awards in the 2024 Pennsylvania NewsMedia Association’s annual...

A project to remove the dam near Elizabeth is scheduled to begin July 10. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District is adding navigation safety signs and buoys upstream and downstream of Mo...

Classmates gathered Thursday for their third annual “Class of 1968 Weenie Roast.” By JIM BUSCH For the MVI It has been 56 years since they walked the halls of the McKeesport Senior High School togethe...

The Elizabeth Township festival featured games, food trucks, raffles and a car cruise. By MICHAEL RICHTER mirchter@yourmvi.com Despite the heat, many showed up Friday to enjoy the Saints Joachim and A...

The tornadoes left 137 dead and 1,000 injured. By JIM BUSCH For the MVI Eighty years ago tomorrow, the headlines in the Valley Independent and other local newspapers were mostly about the progress of ...

Experts say their argument is based on a misunderstanding of how elections work. By ANGELA COULOUMBIS Spotlight PA and CARTER WALKER Votebeat A far-right group is asking a judge to order Pennsylvania ...

Several students were also honored at the board meeting earlier this week. By JIM BUSCH For the MVI South Allegheny school board approved a new budget this week for the 2024-25 school year. The budget...

The bell used to hang from the school building, but it had been in Georgia for several decades. A piece of Fayette City history returned home Thursday. A bell that once hung from the Fayette City scho...

The organization’s Monessen store has been in business for 25 years. When Richard Lenio’s pastor at St. Sebastian Catholic Church in Belle Vernon asked him to form a St. Vincent de Paul Society more t...

The 7-0 vote came after she refused to shake a student’s hand during graduation ceremonies. Charleroi Area school board directors voted Thursday to censure their colleague Adele Hopkins for her action...

By JIM BUSCH For the MVI A lot of what I know about the natural world I learned from my grandfather. He was an old-time Pennsylvania woodsman who knew everything there was to know about the plants and...

Director and founder Jason Togyer places a strong emphasis on local content. By COLETTE FUNCHES McKeesport Community Newsroom Tube City Online Radio, also known as WMCK Radio, is housed in a far corne...

As a young girl, Maria Kitay visited the hospital when her cousin, Clara Carbone Caputo, had breast cancer. “She put her back up against the wall, and she said, ‘It’s so painful to have this,’” Kitay ...