With revelers set to return to the Las Vegas Strip and downtown to ring in the New Year, locals and visitors alike can expect an influx of traffic and road closures as the area ushers in 2022.
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Before friends and family can gather and be merry they’ll have to deal with the Scrooge of the season: travel.
With the pandemic emphasizing how much Nevadans relied on in-person Department of Motor Vehicles visits, the agency is looking to the future with a major online shift.
A new road project aims to provide a new access point to the growing portion of the Las Vegas Valley and eventually to Interstate 15.
A busy stretch of Charleston Boulevard is set to see a reduced speed limit as Las Vegas officials look at the future of the area.
After many friends and families opted not to travel for Thanksgiving last year as COIVD-19 regulations gripped the nation, now that those have loosed many will be hitting the roads and skies to enjoy the holiday with loved ones.
The Boring Co.’s Convention Center Loop has been in operation for five months now, and has gone from an idea that many doubted to a reality that is catching on with conventiongoers.
Approval of the contractor and design for the Interstate 15/Tropicana interchange project has been delayed twice and if it is delayed again, vital funding could be in jeopardy.
With the interstate going from three lanes on the Nevada side to two on the California side, traffic can back up over 20 miles on some busy holiday weekends.
With the Dollar Loan Center in Henderson a handful of months away from hosting its first events city officials are in the process of adding features aimed at improving the anticipated event day traffic flow.
Work could commence soon on updating signage at McCarran International Airport to reflect the name change to Harry Reid International Airport.
To expand their autonomous capabilities, Motional is tripling the size of their test track, along with doubling their operations center near McCarran International Airport.
Documents submitted to Clark County show the RTC originally expected to use 17 buses on game days, transporting a maximum of 1,277 passengers in each direction per game, or 12,270 riders annually for the 10 Raiders home games.
While a revamp of the Interstate 15/Tropicana Avenue interchange is touted as a needed improvement to traffic flow, one local gaming giant disagrees.
The contractor that could carry out the Tropicana Avenue/Interstate 15 interchange project was selected last week, but not without some controversy.