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Spirit adding flights between Las Vegas and Philadelphia, Baltimore

A Spirit Airlines jet takes off from McCarran International Airport on Friday, Aug. 26, 2011.

The fastest-growing domestic airline at McCarran International Airport in 2012 is starting the year the way it left off last year. Miramar, Fla.-based Spirit Airlines today announced two new nonstop routes between Las Vegas and East Coast destinations.

30 January 2013

By Richard N. Velotta

McCarran passenger counts flat in December but up in 2012

In this photo provided by the Las Vegas News Bureau, Officials welcomed British Airwaysi first flight from Londonis Gatwick Airport with the traditional water cannon salute at McCarran International Airport on October 29, 2012.

Passenger counts at McCarran International Airport were flat in December, but the city’s airport – the seventh busiest in the country – closed 2012 with a 0.4 percent increase over the previous year with 41.7 million passengers.

29 January 2013

By Richard N. Velotta

Taxicab Authority approves extra cabs for Super Bowl weekend

The Nevada Taxicab Authority had in its monthly meeting in Las Vegas today.

29 January 2013

By Richard N. Velotta

NTSB says inadequate maintenance likely cause of fatal tour helicopter crash

In this photo provided by the National Transportation Safety Board on Saturday, Dec. 10, 2011, investigators examine the wreckage of a sightseeing tour helicopter from Las Vegas that crashed in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada near the Hoover Dam. The Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011, crash killed the pilot and four tourists, including a couple from Kansas and a couple from New Delhi, India.

Inadequate maintenance likely led to a helicopter crash that killed five people outside of Las Vegas in December 2011, the National Transportation Safety Board announced Tuesday.

29 January 2013

By Jackie Valley

Driving in the Las Vegas Valley? Watch for flashing yellow arrows

Move over red and green. There’s a new traffic signal in town, and it’s yellow. And if you drive, chances are you’ve encountered it. The Nevada Department of Transportation installed 165 flashing yellow arrow turn signals last year in Southern Nevada.

29 January 2013

By Jackie Valley

Taxi drivers to vote on new contract next week

Cabs wait in line to pick up passengers coming into McCarran Airport Monday, November 8, 2010.

A new contract ratification vote is scheduled for Sunday and Monday by Yellow-Checker-Star taxi drivers represented by the Industrial Technical Professional Employees union.

25 January 2013

By Richard N. Velotta

Southwest Airlines reports earnings of 9 cents a share

A Southwest Airlines passenger jet is shown at a gate at McCarran International Airport on Dec. 9, 2011.

Superstorm Sandy and higher costs dampened Southwest Airlines’ fourth-quarter profitability, but McCarran International Airport’s busiest commercial carrier still beat analysts’ earning expectations.

24 January 2013

By Richard N. Velotta

Council wants more study before signing off on new parking meters for downtown

The Las Vegas City Council heard a proposal at its Wednesday meeting for a $1.4 million plan to replace select single-vehicle parking meters in the city with multibay meters that serve several cars at once and accept debit or credit cards.

23 January 2013

By Conor Shine

Sewer line repairs to affect traffic in western valley

A recent sewer overflow has prompted Las Vegas city officials to conduct a series of improvements and repairs at the intersection of Sahara Avenue and Fort Apache Road.

22 January 2013

By William D'Urso

Experts: Less than half of motorists would use toll road around Boulder City

This artist's rendering shows what the redesigned interchange of Boulder City Bypass and U.S. 93 would look like at Railroad Pass. Railroad Pass Casino is at left. If U.S. 93 is designated an interstate between Las Vegas and Phoenix, the bypass route would become part of the interstate, officials say.

Transportation experts say a 15-mile toll-road bypass around Boulder City would only be used by about 44 percent of the motorists using what eventually would become a piece of the proposed Interstate 11 between Hoover Dam and Henderson.

17 January 2013

By Richard N. Velotta

Bypass bridge inspectors use engineering smarts, mountain-climbing skills

A bridge inspector rappels down a column during a safety inspection of the Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge Wednesday, January 16, 2013.

Seven bridge inspectors equipped with climbing harnesses stood in a circle Wednesday morning atop the Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge for a safety check.

17 January 2013

By Brian Nordli

Virgin America adding flights between Las Vegas and Los Angeles

A Virgin America plane is shown arriving at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, Dec. 1, 2010.

California-based Virgin America will become the sixth airline to offer nonstop flights to and from Las Vegas’ most popular air destination — Los Angeles International Airport — when it begins offering three daily flights in April.

16 January 2013

By Richard N. Velotta

Dreamliner woes: Emergency landing grounds Boeing 787 jets in Japan

All Nippon Airways employees wave at a departing Boeing 787 Dreamliner during the airline's launch of a nonstop flight from San Jose to Tokyo at the San Jose International Airport in San Jose, Calif., on Jan. 11, 2013.

Boeing Co.'s 787 planes were grounded for safety checks Wednesday by two major Japanese airlines after one was forced to make an emergency landing in the latest blow for the new jet.

15 January 2013

Elaine Kurtenbach and Yuri Kageyama, Associate Press

Nevada highways need nearly $2 billion worth of repairs, report says

More than 22 percent of Nevada's highways are in poor condition and those in Las Vegas and Reno are congested. But 22.5 percent of the roads are in excellent condition and the bridges in Nevada are tops in the nation.

14 January 2013

By Cy Ryan

Dispute arises over price of land for Boulder City bypass

Construction of the Boulder City bypass could be delayed as much as a year in a dispute between the state Transportation Department and property owners along the route over land prices.