The group calls attention to the issue of veterans’ suicide and aids area veterans in need. For Our Brother’s Keeper, no one walks alone. The nonprofit organization, started in 2022 by two local veter...

Tyler Duerstein felt compelled to complete a project for the community during his time in office. Elizabeth Township Junior Commissioner Tyler Duerstein has been working on a project to restore the Co...

Students from Mary of Nazareth Catholic School hand delivered their donations to the Sampson’s Mills Presbyterian Church food ministry. Cupboard Stretchers White Oak Food Pantry, a ministry of Sampson...

The grant will be used to add digital e-book licenses to Monessen Public Library’s book collection. For the MVI Like many organizations that provide public services to residents in their community, Mo...

Commissioners said they’ve been working to keep expenses under control. For the MVI Washington County Commissioners have unveiled a preliminary budget proposal that guarantees no tax increase for coun...

Supervisors agreed to a three-year contract with Big’s Sanitation. Fallowfield Township has selected a new garbage collector. Big’s Sanitation, also known as Earthwise Environmental, will begin servin...

To the Editor: Such name-calling, negativism, and hatred spewing from the pen of a recent writer prompted my first “Letter to the Editor.” Value judgments, hatred like that, and quoting Scripture (out...

When the Democratic convention took place in August, with new nominee Kamala Harris rising in the polls, Democrats were giddy with a sense of impending victory. In Chicago for the convention, Senate M...

PENNSYLVANIA has 67 counties. Those counties contain 2,560 municipalities of various sizes, each with its own internal organizations. There are 2,400 fire departments, according to the Office of the S...

A teen remained in jail Tuesday after police charged him with fatally shooting an 18-year-old man at a Glassport bus stop two days earlier. James Martin, 17, of McKeesport fled the shooting scene on a...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia said Ukraine has fired U.S.-made longer-range weapons inside its territory, days after the U.S. said it would allow Kyiv to use those systems to conduct deeper strikes, a l...

Basketball season has officially kicked off in the Mon Valley, and these Ringgold High School girls varsity players were excited to get started. From left are Alayna Macioce, Addison Jenkins, Rihanna ...

His relationship with the agency goes back to his time as McKeesport mayor. Auberle bestowed state Sen. Jim Brewster with its Community Partner of the Year award at its annual public meeting in McKees...

The money will be used to provide more outdoor recreation opportunities for area residents. Area parks will receive updates thanks to state grant funding aimed to enhance recreation, conserve natural ...

The ruling was directed at Bucks, Montgomery and Philadelphia counties. By RYAN DETO and PAULA REED WARD TribLive The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Monday that mail-in ballots in the Nov. 5 electio...

Council agreed to give the owner until January to find a new place to live. White Oak council held a hearing before Monday’s meeting to determine as to whether to authorize the condemnation and demoli...

The former council president died in 2001. North Charleroi council has decided to rename North Charleroi Borough Park in memory of a long-time dedicated community member and public servant. Richard E....

I continue to appreciate the opportunity the Mon Valley Independent has given me to write articles on health and wellness. This will be my last article for the year due to the upcoming birth of my dau...

GOVERNMENT IS MORE than just elections. It is the hard part — the part that comes between elections. It’s deciding what services people want. It’s prioritizing what they need. It’s finding a way to pr...

In the wake of this year’s presidential election, women were described as being in a state of shock that one of their own, Kamala Harris, had not been elected president of the United States. “Liberal ...