The visit from Vice President Kamala Harris and Tim Walz will disrupt local air and highway traffic.
Mick Akers
Sports Business and Transportation reporter
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Mick joined the Las Vegas Review-Journal as transportation reporter in November 2018. He previously worked at the Las Vegas Sun covering a variety of beats including transportation, business, gaming, and city and county government. Prior to that, he worked at the Pahrump Valley Times, where he was named the Nevada Press Association’s Outstanding Journalist in the intermediate category for his coverage of the Lamar Odom brothel overdose situation, rural healthcare and more. Mick was born in Texas but grew up in Las Vegas, attending UNLV’s Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies where he was a member of the Kappa Tau Alpha National Journalism Society.
Ticket sales and room bookings ahead of the 2024 Formula One Grand Prix are off to a slower start compared to last year’s interest, but a key race official isn’t worried.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is looking to purchase $1.7 million in 2024 Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix tickets, to be given out to customers of the valley’s tourism arm.
The completion of the two-year, $99 million U.S. Highway 95-Charleston Boulevard interchange project means an easier commute for those in East Las Vegas.
Last year’s infrastructure-related work — which caused traffic headaches for those traveling in-and-around the Strip — involved six months of repaving operations, something that won’t be seen this year.
The project will see portions of the highway that are now three lanes in each direction condensed to two lanes in each direction, among other changes.
Supply chain issues kept crews from carrying out all of the planned repaving operations during the second-consecutive, full-weekend directional closure of Interstate 15.
The A’s plan to sell their 50 percent interest in the Coliseum for $125 million to the African American Sports and Entertainment Group (AASEG), the two groups jointly announced Monday.
After being talked about for years, work is getting underway on a project to increase bus service along a busy Las Vegas corridor that includes UNLV.
Tickets to UFC 306 on Sept. 14 are on sale now. Fans wanting to see the first live sporting event at the Sphere will have to plunk down a small fortune.
Seaport Entertainment Group Inc., owner of the Las Vegas Ballpark and Las Vegas Aviators minor league baseball team, has separated from Howard Hughes Holdings to form its own company.
Another full closure of Interstate 15 near the resort corridor is set to disrupt traffic this weekend in Las Vegas tied to “Pave-A-Thon” operations.
Las Vegas Grand Prix officials are scheduled to give the Clark County Commission a planning update for the Formula 1 race taking place in November.
Tropicana owner Bally’s Corp. says the demolition of the Rat Pack-era resort is moving ahead as planned.
The Big Ten Conference will play its women’s basketball tournament in 2027 at T-Mobile Arena, and the men’s tournament will be played in 2028 at T-Mobile Arena.
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