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An Allegiant Air jet takes off from McCarran International Airport on Friday, Aug. 26, 2011.

The owner of airline Allegiant Air this week announced the formation of Allegiant Systems, a joint venture with AvIntel and Lixar IT focusing on airline industry automation.

5 October 2012
By Steve Green

Californians wake up to huge spike in gas prices

Motorist Tony Klein fills up his 1967 Cutlass V-8 at a gas station in Los Angeles Thursday, Oct. 4, 2012. Motorists in California paid an average of $4.232 per gallon Wednesday. That’s 45 cents higher than the national average and exceeded only by Hawaii among the 50 states.

Californians woke up to a shock Friday as overnight gasoline prices jumped by as much as 20 cents a gallon in some areas, ending a week of soaring costs that saw some stations close and others charge record prices.

5 October 2012
By Gillian Flaccus, Associated Press

RTC mini-bus overturns onto side in accident

Two people were sent to the hospital Monday afternoon after a Regional Transportation Commission bus collided into a vehicle, Metro Police said.

1 October 2012
By Paul Takahashi

Passenger traffic up at Las Vegas airport for August

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

McCarran International Airport passenger counts inched upward in August, reversing a two-month trend of slight declines.

28 September 2012
By Richard N. Velotta

Allegiant Air adding flights between Las Vegas and Plattsburgh, N.Y.

An Allegiant Air jet takes off from McCarran International Airport on Friday, Aug. 26, 2011.

Las Vegas-based Allegiant Air will tap a new Canadian border market later this year with nonstop flights between McCarran International Airport and Plattsburgh, N.Y.

27 September 2012
By Richard N. Velotta

'Not forgotten': Downtown street to be named after slain courthouse guard

A truck carries the casket with slain court security officer Stanley Cooper in a procession past the Lloyd George Federal Courthouse Monday, Jan. 11, 2010.

To most people, Chef Andre Rochat Place is just another stretch of asphalt lost in the interlocking grid of roads that form downtown Las Vegas. But at 11 a.m. Thursday, the single-block street outside the Lloyd George Federal Courthouse will take on a new purpose. It will be renamed Stanley W. Cooper Place, after the court security officer who died as a hero after a shooting inside the courthouse in 2010.

27 September 2012
By Brian Nordli

Taxicab Authority votes to hold steady on taxi fares

Taxis wait at "the pit" for fares at McCarran International Airport. At any time, there are about 2,000 cabs on Las Vegas streets.

The Nevada Taxicab Authority is keeping cab fares where they are and won’t allow companies to increase their fleets for now. In unanimous votes Monday, the five-member panel, which regulates the 16 cab companies operating in Clark County, agreed to keep rates at $2.60 a mile after a $3.30 “drop fee” and ordered no new allocations for additional cabs.

24 September 2012
By Richard N. Velotta

Freeway ramps around airport to be closed for construction

Construction of a bridge expansion project will prompt temporary overnight closures of the ramps between the airport connector and the Las Vegas Beltway tonight and Wednesday, Clark County officials said.

24 September 2012
By William D'Urso

Office complex offers bike-share program for its downtown workers

From left, Rich Worthington, president and CEO of the Molasky Group of Companies, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman and Irwin Molasky, chairman of the Molasky Group, are shown at an event to introduce a bike-share program, Sept. 21, 2012.

Just ahead of Saturday’s annual Viva Bike Vegas event, Molasky Corporate Center downtown unveiled Las Vegas’ first private bike share program Friday.

21 September 2012
By Andrea Domanick

Emotional vigil honors victims in fatal bus stop crash

Amy Darrow and her son Jeremy Darrow hug before a candle light vigil Thursday, Sept. 20, 2012 for people who were killed and injured when Gary Lee Hosey Jr. drove into a bus stop a week earlier. Amy Darrow was a co-worker of Hyon Cooley's, who was killed in the crash.

Shock. Anger. Grief. Hundreds of teary-eyed people with solemn faces gathered around the candle-and-flower-filled memorial site at the Spring Mountain Road and Decatur Boulevard bus stop for a candlelight vigil Thursday night.

21 September 2012
By Brian Nordli

Road construction to close lanes on North Decatur Boulevard

Starting Monday, traffic lanes on Decatur Boulevard between Lake Mead Boulevard and Rancho Drive will be restricted for seven weeks while construction crews upgrade the road.

20 September 2012
By Brian Nordli

Las Vegas airport projected among 10 fastest growing in U.S.

Various airline signs are seen during a preview of McCarran's new Terminal 3 Saturday, June 2, 2012.

McCarran International Airport will have the eighth greatest expansion in passenger “enplanements” by percentage among major U.S. airports over the next five years, a leading aviation industry consultant says.

18 September 2012
By Richard N. Velotta

Gas leak causes temporary shutdown of Las Vegas Monorail

Service on the Las Vegas Monorail was partially suspended for 75 minutes Monday afternoon after a construction crew working on The Linq project near the Strip hit a gas line, officials said.

17 September 2012
By Paul Takahashi

Young illegal immigrants may get driver's licenses

Assemblyman Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, right, is congratulated by Senators Ron Calderon, D-Monterey Park, second from right, Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, third from right, and Kevin de Leon, D-Los Angeles, left, after the Senate approved his measure to allow illegal immigrants in California to get state driver’s licenses, at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., on Wednesday, Aug. 29 2012.

When 17-year-old Alondra Esquivel needs to get from her rural central California home to classes at Fresno State University 20 miles away, she must rely on rides from her relatives or her boyfriend.

15 September 2012
By Gosia Wozniacka, Associated Press

Day after deadly crash, bus riders wonder about missing passengers

Andre Rodriguez was grateful for the day he overslept. It may have saved his life. “I am here by the grace of God, I thought about it all day yesterday,” Rodriguez said.

14 September 2012
By Ron Sylvester
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