Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent These Fallowfield Township girls were at Charleroi Area High School Saturday night for the final game of the CFSBank Holiday Classic. From left are Emma Skobel,...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com State Rep. Austin Davis   recently delivered good news for homeowners in Clairton on behalf of the state Department of Community and Economic Development. “I’m happy t...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com A popular volunteer program that provided tiny hats to area newborns has come to an end. More than 350 people and groups in western Pennsylvania had participate...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Maple Creek Distributors in Charleroi is again hoping to wrap up the holidays with a gift for area veterans. Each year, the business decorates a Christmas tree with ...

By Eric Seiverling eseiverling@yourmvi.com Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald was one of four elected officials to win the inaugural Moe Coleman “Let’s Work Together” award recently in Pittsbu...

Mike Darnay / For the Mon Valley Independent From left, Anthony, Amy, Alyssa and Bre Brinson turned out to cheer on Elizabeth Forward’s Bailie Brinson in Friday night’s game against South Park in the ...

By EMILY BENNETT DILULLO ebennett@yourmvi.com Monessen Mayor Matt Shorraw is engaged in another clash with council over the redevelopment authority board. Before council voted Thursday to reappoint fo...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com A second teen boy will be tried as an adult in connection with the burglary and beating of a Monongahela man earlier this month. Charges against Jamie Watkins, 14...

By EMILY BENNETT DILULLO ebennett@yourmvi.com The new manager for the Pasta Shoppe in Monessen received a peddling and soliciting fine from the city for barbecuing outside the restaurant last weekend....

By RICH CHOLODOFSKY Trib Total Media Months of campaigning and election-night nerves were a thing of past Thursday as Westmoreland County’s new slate of government officials were sworn into office. Th...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Taxpayers in Monongahela will not see an increase next year. At a special meeting Friday, council unanimously passed a $3.2 million budget for 2020 that includes $1....

Jenn Codeluppi / Mon Valley Independent In the stands Thursday night at the CFSBank Holiday Classic are, in front from left, Laci Zanardini of Stockdale, Tayla Pascoe of Roscoe, Gianna Grillo of Calif...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com The Mon Valley lost a much- loved four-legged friend on Christmas Eve. Benji, a yellow Labrador retriever and therapy dog at Monongahela Valley Hospital, area nursin...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com The Elizabeth borough police department made a special Christmas delivery this year: returning a car to an 82-year-old woman from York County who had broken dow...

By EMILY BENNETT DILULLO ebennett@yourmvi.com Monessen gave final approval to its 2020 budget Thursday night at a meeting accented with thoughtful goodbyes and hopeful declarations for the coming year...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A 16-year-old student from Belle Vernon Area School District was recognized by the school board and administrators last week for doing “exceptionally well” on a mandat...

By Eric Seiverling eseiverling@yourmvi.com Pleasant Hills residents will soon see a new Amish furniture maker as a tenant in a building on Route 51 that’s been vacant for years. Pleasant Hills borough...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com One year after the Christmas Eve fire at U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works that led to higher sulfur dioxide emissions than what is permitted, days of heavy fogs h...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com The Statue of Liberty may ask for “your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” but all a group of Mon Valley women have asked for over...

By CHRISTINE HAINES chaines@yourmvi.com Steps are being taken to make a dangerous intersection in Elizabeth Township a bit safer.   After two separate traffic studies a year apart, the Pennsylvania De...