One lane at the start of Summerlin Parkway will be closed for 20 days as crews work on a new ramp to connect the U.S. 95 high-occupancy vehicle lanes to the parkway.
Why drive to work when you can sit back, relax and eat a doughnut? That’s the argument the Regional Transportation Commission is making as it asks Las Vegans to participate in the national Dump the Pump day Thursday.
After compromising with Arizona and federal government officials, the Nevada Department of Transportation announced plans Tuesday to temporarily ban some trucks — but not all — from U.S. 93 in Boulder City. The new rules will only reroute large southbound trucks on U.S. 93 during construction times.
The price of gasoline in Nevada fell this month for the first time since September, according to AAA numbers released today. The Silver State’s average price for a gallon of gas is $3.72, a drop of 22 cents from last month, but still up 85 cents from a year ago when the average was $2.87, the auto club said.
While growth in the southern Las Vegas Valley has slowed considerably, transportation officials are still moving forward with plans to add new interchanges to Interstate 15 in areas that expect future growth.
Clark County commissioners may have found a new medical school to work with after they spent the past few months bashing the University of Nevada School of Medicine for what they say is a lack of interest in improving University Medical Center.
North Las Vegas will have to keep waiting to use its new sewage treatment facility after Clark County commissioners put off another request to use a county channel for the treated water.
Clark County commissioners directed staff Tuesday to apply for a refund of money taken by the state, paving the way for a legal showdown between the governments.
Two people were arrested Friday as part of an investigation into a bus stop shooting that killed a teen girl last month. One of the suspects is a minor whose identity was not released.
Las Vegas has seen a lot of changes in the last 30 years, but McCarran International Airport has been relying on the same air traffic control tower for almost that long. But the old air traffic tower will soon be history, replaced by a new facility at 352 feet tall. The Federal Aviation Administration broke ground Tuesday on the $99 million tower, which will open in 2015 in the area between the under-construction Terminal 3 and the Airport Connector Tunnel.
The family of a Las Vegas man shot outside a brewery in March isn’t satisfied with the $30,000 reward being offered for information in the case, so they’ve joined with the brewery to raise more money.
McCarran International Airport’s C Concourse is about to get a makeover. Work on the 26-year-old facility began in July with the replacement of asphalt ramp surfaces on the east side of the concourse, and as work shifts to a second phase, an interior rehabilitation project is getting under way.
Amanda Aragon was supposed to go to prom and graduate high school this year, but instead her parents helped dedicate a memorial garden for their daughter Friday afternoon. The 11-year-old was killed while walking to Grant Sawyer Middle School in 2005. She was in a crosswalk when she was hit by an unlicensed driver in an unregistered car.
Las Vegas’ new bus rapid transit lines was recognized as one of the best in the nation in a report released Thursday — but the U.S. has a long way to go to catch up with some other countries.
Despite rising gasoline, airfare and hotel prices, more Americans are expected to travel for Memorial Day weekend this year, and Las Vegas is the No. 1 destination, according to some travel experts.
Despite rising gasoline, airfare and hotel prices, more Americans are expected to travel for Memorial Day weekend this year, and Las Vegas is the No. 1 destination, according to some travel experts. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is predicting a 2 percent increase in visitors this year.
More road shifting is coming up for motorists who use the Las Vegas Beltway in the northern valley. The Clark County Public Works Department will be restricting traffic and shifting lanes on the beltway between North Fifth Street and Aliante Parkway for the next two months, county officials said.
The fight over funding and reforming Nevada’s public schools came into living rooms across the state last week as a nonprofit group launched a TV ad campaign.
Where can you find live tarantulas, a physicist singing rock songs and a Hollywood director? Only in Las Vegas. Thousands of people came to the inaugural Las Vegas Science Festival expo Saturday at the Cashman Center to see more than 60 displays, including interactive exhibits, live animals and a mini planetarium.
Work to restore vandalized ancient rock art in the “Sistine Chapel” of Red Rock Canyon is finally getting under way. The art, left by American Indians thousands of years ago, was the target of graffiti vandals in November.
hat is an acceptable number of fatalities from traffic accidents in Nevada? When the Nevada Department of Transportation began working on its Strategic Highway Safety Plan, that’s the question officials asked. Then they wondered, how many deaths are acceptable in their own families? And the answer was obvious: Zero.
Las Vegans will have an environmentally friendly way of visiting the Arts District for First Friday this week — the Regional Transportation Commission is sponsoring a "Tour de Art" bike ride.
A storm drain project in northwest Las Vegas will close a street for most of next week. Camino del Oro will be closed at Lone Mountain Road from midnight Tuesday morning until midnight Saturday morning, city officials said.
The construction of a new Cultural Corridor Trail in downtown Las Vegas will cause lane closures and traffic detours for the next three months, city officials said.
One of the valley’s busiest interchanges is going through a series of changes, and the process is likely to cause a number of traffic delays for the rest of the month.
Bonneville Avenue in downtown Las Vegas is now a one-way street, and Clark Avenue soon will be as well. Bonneville is now for eastbound traffic only between First Street and Las Vegas Boulevard.
Report says motorcycle deaths expected to see a slight dip nationwide
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
A national report released this week says motorcycle fatalities have likely fallen in the last year — but not in Nevada. And transportation safety experts are worried about some other trends they are starting to see. The Governors Highway Safety Association, a non-profit group representing state highway safety offices, released the report Tuesday saying motorcycle fatalities dropped nationwide at least 2 percent in 2010.
McCarran International Airport scored a third consecutive month of increasing passenger counts in March. Las Vegas’ airport served 3,564,841 arriving and departing passengers in March, a 2.2 percent increase when compared to March 2010.
Derek Randolph got a rude send-off from Las Vegas after spending a week here with his wife. The two made a quick stop Thursday morning at a ARCO gas station to fill up their rental car before returning it and flying home to Minnesota.
The average price of a gallon of gas in Nevada is now $3.87, a 25-cent increase from a month ago and a 91-cent increase from a year ago, according to AAA.
Jeffery Watkins’ family was shocked when the physically-fit father and probation officer was diagnosed last fall with acute myelogenous leukemia, a cancer that impacts blood and bone marrow. But while Watkins waits for a life-saving bone marrow transplant, his family was helping organize a drive on Saturday to get more people signed up to be marrow donors.
An 18-year-old man died in a Saturday crash in the eastern Las Vegas Valley. The collision, which also injured two other people, happened shortly after 6 a.m. on Desert Inn Road east of the Pecos-McLeod Interconnect, Metro Police said.
Traffic woes in Boulder City caused by the new Hoover Dam bypass bridge could be eased later this year, but not everyone is happy about a proposal to widen U.S. 93. The Nevada Department of Transportation held a public meeting in Boulder City on Thursday afternoon to present its plans to widen the highway between Buchanan Boulevard and the bypass.