Drivers around the Summerlin and Red Rock Canyon areas should brace for road closures this weekend tied to the L’Etape Las Vegas by Tour de France bicycle race.
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The Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles’ modernization of its computer system could take longer than anticipated and cost the state more than $300 million in additional funding.
The trains, designed to go up to 220 mph, will be able to take Brightline West passengers between Las Vegas and Southern California in less than two hours.
The crash occurred shortly before 7 p.m. near Nellis Boulevard and Sandra Road, Las Vegas police said.
Nevada roads are deadlier this year, with nearly 40 percent more fatal crashes through March than during the same period in 2023. And the situation is worse on Clark County roads.
The driver who fled the scene of a four-vehicle collision that resulted in the death of a woman near the intersection of Charleston Boulevard and Arville Street in Las Vegas has been arrested, according to police.
Three separate vehicle collisions in the east Las Vegas valley tied up traffic Thursday afternoon.
The Nevada Highway Patrol is warning drivers about a scam hitting the freeways where people are claiming to work for police but are really trying to get personal information from drivers after crashes.
With the proposed Interstate 11 connecting Southern Nevada and Phoenix on a path to reality, Nevada leaders are setting their sights on the next stretch, north from Las Vegas.
Southbound lanes of Interstate 15 in California were reopened late Tuesday, a day and a half after a bridge fire shut down the highway and stalled travelers and left charred wreckage slumping into lanes.
A three-vehicle car accident caused some lane closures Wednesday morning on the U.S. Highway 95 southbound near Rancho Drive.
Northbound lanes of Interstate 15 reopened Tuesday evening after a fire at a bridge construction site on closed the artery connecting Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
Helldorado Days, the city’s annual five-day tribute to its Wild West heritage, includes a parade that will close downtown streets Saturday.
A Tuesday morning suicide shut down eastbound Summerlin Parkway near the U.S. 95 for nearly five hours. Nevada Highway Patrol responded just before 5:30 a.m. to a woman who jumped from the Summerlin Parkway overpass.
All three lanes of Interstate 15 in Hesperia are closed in both directions after a construction worker’s blowtorch caught the overpass bridge’s wooden supports on fire. The freeway is Southern California’s main connector to Las Vegas and has been closed since 1:30 p.m.
The trains, designed to go up to 220 mph, will be able to take Brightline West passengers between Las Vegas and Southern California in less than two hours.
Nevada roads are deadlier this year, with nearly 40 percent more fatal crashes through March than during the same period in 2023. And the situation is worse on Clark County roads.
Brightline West and federal, state and local officials broke ground on the long-discussed high-speed rail system linking Las Vegas and Southern California.
A new connection between Laughlin and Bullhead City, Arizona — decades in the making — is nearing completion.
