By Les Harvath For the Mon Valley Independent Long before their respective scholastic tennis and volleyball seasons began this school year, a trio of California Area High School seniors were on their ...

By Bob Pajich  For the Mon Valley Independent Liberty Borough Mayor Larry Sikorski is encouraging the South Allegheny School Board to fix what he sees as a gap in security at the district’s Early Chil...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com A Maryland woman accused of harassing a Monessen woman by posting fake Internet ads seeking a sperm donor has been sentenced to three years probation. Fantazzia Tish...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com While there are still a few steps to go before a winner is officially announced in the race for the state House’s 49th Legislative District, it appears incumbent ...

By KAYLIE MOORE and TAYLOR BROWN kmoore@yourmvi.com, tbrown@yourmvi.com A mix of wintry weather swept through the Mid-Mon Valley Thursday night, causing a handful of accidents as motorists tried to na...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com Rostraver Township commissioners on Thursday introduced a tentative 2019 general fund budget that does not include a tax increase. As it stands, the balanced budget ...

By Rich Cholodofsky Melvin Knight will be returned to death row after a Westmoreland County jury Thursday night condemned him to die by lethal injection. The Westmoreland County jury of six men and si...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com A Monessen man is in prison after allegedly being captured on surveillance video sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy. Monessen police charged Michael Robert Christ...

By TAYLOR BROWN  tbrown@yourmvi.com A Fallowfield township man broke the hand of a state trooper and injured several others who were attempting to take him into custody, after he allegedly chocked and...

By TAYLOR BROWN tbrown@yourmvi.com A 28-year-old Charleroi man who was found sleeping inside his vehicle with his finger on the trigger of a gun on his lap over the summer has had all charges dismisse...

By TAYLOR BROWN  tbrown@yourmvi.com A growing online retailer and home-delivery provider will be constructing two new warehouses in Allegheny county. The company, goPuff, is a digital convenience reta...

If you haven’t noticed any improvement in Pennsylvania’s infrastructure over the past four years, you’re not alone. A report by the American Society of Civil Engineers gives our state a C-minus grade ...

By TAYLOR BROWN  tbrown@yourmvi.com It’s not often generations of military veterans from various branches get to sit in the same room to share their stories, but Belle Vernon Area Middle School studen...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com As frustrations continue to mount in the wake of recent flooding, Washington Township residents are taking matters into their own hands. Residents distributed flyers...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Washington County officials responded with disbelief to some of the allegations laid out by the corrections facility’s union members last week. In a letter dated ...

By JEFF STITT jstitt@yourmvi.com A senior student at McKeesport Area High School was struck by an SUV early Wednesday morning on the busy road that runs along the front of the high school campus. The ...

By Jose Negron jnegron@yourmvi.com Elizabeth Forward school directors unanimously accepted a draft of a 2017-18 annual financial report that includes a general fund balance of more than $3 million dur...

By TAYLOR BROWN  tbrown@yourmvi.com EQT Production Company has paid $294,000 in fines for Clean Streams Law violations in Allegheny County after puncturing an abandoned mine in 2017 that led to the di...

By KRISTIE LINDEN klinden@yourmvi.com Monongahela council voted last night to approve the demolition of a Second Street house that was heavily damaged when the land began sliding following heavy rains...

By Kaylie Moore kmoore@yourmvi.com Following a rocky few months of navigating state requirements, Monessen School District has finally replaced its auditor. School board members unanimously approved a...