Property taxes will remain steady as the city finishes 2024 with a $25K deficit. Monessen council unanimously approved the city’s final budget for 2025, which does not include an increase in property ...

McKeesport Area High School students got an early visit from a “secret Santa” and found brand new workout equipment and a remodeled workout site. Once the McKeesport Area High School football team got...

The Donora Public Library celebrated the holiday season Dec. 18 with a kids Christmas party. Shown with Santa is Lylith Seek of Donora. All of the youngsters in attendance received a treat bag that in...

Here are the winners of the Mon Valley Independent’s annual holiday coloring contest. Clockwise from top left are 3-4 age group winner Walker Mudron, 4, of Monongahela; 5-7 age group winner Ellianna K...

Saints Joachim and Anne pastor, the Rev. Tom Burke and religious education and parish life director Julie Fleckenstein delivered the Angel Tree items collected from parishioners to the Little Sisters ...

The Mon Valley Independent will not produce a print or electronic edition on Wednesday in observance of the Christmas Day holiday. We will resume our regular publication schedule Thursday. Only our ne...

During the Monongahela Fire Department’s recent Christmas party, state Rep. Andrew Kuzma, R-Elizabeth Township, helped honor Chris Bartkus, a lifetime member who has served the department for 50 years...

Stockdale Volunteer Fire Co. and Roscoe Volunteer Fire Department firefighters partnered to host their annual Santa Parade on Sunday afternoon. Santa and The Grinch traveled through Stockdale, Allenpo...

The meeting will be held 6 p.m. Dec. 30. White Oak council will hold a late-year meeting to vote on the 2025 budget before the Dec. 31 deadline. During last week’s meeting, council decided to have a s...

A snow squall is an intense burst of snow and winds that create whiteout visibility and rapidly deteriorate road conditions. Several Mon Valley communities and neighborhoods in the Pittsburgh area fac...

The annual event has become an important community tradition. For the MVI Elizabeth Forward High School welcomed dozens of senior citizens looking for a little holiday cheer to the district’s 44th ann...

The high school now has a chance to win the state prize, which amounts to $12,000 in Samsung products. Monessen High School is one of the six schools in Pennsylvania that has been awarded $2,500 in Sa...

Fighting against full transparency is Pennsylvania’s top elections official, Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt. By PAULA REED WARD TribLive A battle for election transparency is being waged acr...

Dena Seykoski’s first-grade class at Monessen Elementary Center showed their excitement for the start of the holidays. The elementary school hosted Christmas parties on Friday and students wore pajama...

The program is sponsored by the Belle Vernon Area Ministerium. For the MVI The Little Things for Little People program, sponsored by the Belle Vernon Area Ministerium, helped more than 125 families du...

Kepler Rhoden and Alan Anderson were officially sworn in as officers with the Charleroi Regional Police Department by Magisterial District Judge Eric Porter during a regional police board meeting. Jen...

The school board also promoted high school Principal Greg Seraceni to assistant superintendent. The Ringgold School Board extended Superintendent Randall Skrinjorich’s contract for five years and prom...

John Hepple and James Bell presented a discussion and shared photos about the historic tragedy at the Rostraver Township Historical Society. By JIM BUSCH For the MVI On Dec. 19, 1907, a tremendous exp...

Rates will remain the same for residents under the new refuse hauling plan. Rostraver Township officially announced dates and times for its new garbage program that begins in January. In October, the ...

Magisterial District Judge Eric Porter Porter swears in newly appointed Charleroi Regional Police Department sergeants Mike Leasure, Jackson Bucy, Walker Bakewell and Marcus Richardson. Jenn Codeluppi...