By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com Monessen Mayor Matt Shorraw is once again at odds with council members over alleged inaccessibility to city hall. Late last year, Councilman Anthony Orzechowski anno...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Mark Alterici is back on Charleroi council and he plans to hit the ground running. During an agenda meeting on Wednesday, council unanimously voted to appoint the bu...

By JIM BUSCH For the Mon Valley Independent Julia Amendola has had a busy week. In addition to volunteering at the Saint Vincent de Paul Society, making pirogies at her church, bingo and her weekly gi...

By Beth Hope-Cushey For the Mon Valley Independent Carroll Township supervisors heard about storm-water runoff concerns from three residents this week. Residents Dennis Fedorchak, Gary Leavengood and ...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com Monessen’s police pension fund saga has reached a partial conclusion. Last week, council members Dave Feehan and Anthony Orzechowski and Lois Thomas unanimously appr...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Although none of its members were present, Versailles Mayor Jim Fleckenstein commended the borough’s volunteer fire department at Tuesday’s council meeting for a quick...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Elizabeth Forward School District has improved its financial rating, according to district officials. Moody’s Investors Service, a business and financial services...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com McKeesport’s K-9 Unit is one of eight in southwestern Pennsylvania-based receiving cash thanks to Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. An announcement was made Mon...

By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmvi.com Monessen School Board will vote on the 2019-20 operating budget for the Westmoreland Intermediate Unit next week. The proposed spending plan of $6,044,170 is about 1...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com The Allegheny Land Trust is again encouraging nature enthusiasts who live in the Mon Valley to lace up their boots, get outside and lend a hand in helping improve the ...

By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmvi.com Two Mon Valley high schools will be part of a regional science competition today. The Southwestern Pennsylvania Regional Science Olympiad will be held in the Convoca...

By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmvi.com A Belle Vernon business owner is hoping to put the Mon Valley on the map as a go-to tourist destination.   Melanie Stringhill Paterson, owner of the Good Ol’ Days Ho...

By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmvi.com Monongahela Police are searching for the driver of a vehicle that crashed into a 7-Eleven Monday morning.   Owner Rhonda Miller-Rachocki said a white jeep, driven by...

By Taylor Brown tbrown@yourmvi.com A hillside in Forward Township won’t stop moving. Bunola River Road is closed once again, just three days after it was re-opened following a Feb. 13 landslide.   Mor...

By JEFF OLIVER For the MV Independent Larry Covino has only lived in Donora a short time, having moved into the community in late November 2018. But, when you talk to the Boston, Mass., native, he can...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com A local police chief was honored Monday during the annual Friends of Scouting breakfast. Carroll Township police Chief Paul Brand received the 2019 Mon Valley Dis...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com Rostraver Township residents will soon experience changes to their garbage collection statements.   Township planner Tamira M. Spedaliere said Monday that in 2019, r...

By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com The president of the Elizabeth Township Board of Commissioners announced a pair of agreements with a Chicago-based company that intends to develop a 550-megawatt gas...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A Charleroi man was killed early Saturday morning in a fire at his residence, and police said he was in the front yard covered by flames when they arrived. Washington ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Southwestern Pennsylvania saw snow accumulation Sunday, and the Mon Valley wasn’t immune from it. Snow started falling in the Valley early Sunday afternoon and continu...