By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A little less than a year after bricks from the former Cougar Stadium in Charleroi began to fall, the Mon Valley Alliance is working to secure grant funding to compl...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Several McKeesport first responders got promotions at Wednesday’s city council meeting. One firefighter was promoted and five members of the police department moved up...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A veteran who hails from McKeesport and his creative partner were recognized Wednesday at the Mc-Keesport Regional History & Heritage Center for helping to honor Vietn...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com Ongoing construction in downtown Monessen is creating a clearance and safety hazard for Mid-Mon Valley Transit Authority buses and passengers between Fourth and Fift...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A McKeesport man is in Allegheny County Jail after allegedly having non-consensual sex with a woman in his Locust Street apartment. Ryan John Zier, 34, is charged with...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A Donora man allegedly under influence of a controlled substance led police on a chase westbound on Interstate 70 early Tuesday morning. Wade John Boyd, 52, is charg...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com An Elizabeth Township man is accused of communicating online with an undercover police officer, whom he thought was a 14-year-old girl from Massachusetts, for unlawf...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com The 78th annual Mon Valley Home Show opens Friday at Rostraver Ice Garden in Rostraver Township. The show is designed for homeowners in all stages of remodeling, lan...

By Beth Hope-Cushey Carroll Township Supervisors approved a resolution supporting the 2020 Census, Complete Count Program. “It is very important to participate,” said board Chairman Tom Rapp. “So when...

By Beth Hope-Cushey New Eagle will increase its police presence, especially during weekends and nights. Councilman Archie Caseber said Tuesday that the borough wants to keep ahead of any trouble. In r...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Penn State Greater Allegheny is hosting an exclusive exhibit at its McKeesport campus featuring the artwork of an artist from the Mon Valley. The gallery opened Tuesda...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com Monessen School Board on Tuesday received two requests from the Westmoreland Intermediate Unit. As part of his annual district visit, WIU Executive Director Jason Co...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Voters who live in Versailles borough were alerted at Tuesday’s council meeting that their polling place has changed. Council President Lisa Fleckenstein announced tha...

By Jeff Stitt jstitt@yourmvi.com The Allegheny County Health Department has levied a $707,568 fine against U.S. Steel for continued emissions problems at the Mon Valley Works Clairton Coke Works Facil...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com “If the leadership does not operate well, the organization and the broader community will suffer,” according to a management and operational review report prepare...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com A West Newton couple accused of failing to take their newborn daughter to the hospital at the recommendation of a pediatrician have been ordered to stand trial.   Ro...

By Matt Petras For the Mon Valley Independent Soon, folks from the North Belle Vernon Recreation Commission will take to Community Bank Park and “egg the place up,” as commission member Lynn Sokol put...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com Members of the Volunteer Fireman’s Association of Liberty borough canvassed the town a few weeks ago “sounding the alarm” about the importance of fire safety and the u...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com State Sen. Jim Brewster, D-McKeesport, and his wife, Linda Brewster, joined biologists from the Pennsylvania Game Commission this month to check on the health of black...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com There certainly is a lion, albeit a cowardly one, but don’t look forward to any tigers or bears at Serra Catholic High School’s musical production of “The Wizard of Oz...