Southwest Airlines is set to add two more connections between the Silver and Golden states.
Mick Akers
Sports Business and Transportation reporter
Email: makers@reviewjournal.com
Phone: (702) 387-2920
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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.
With the pandemic curbing visitation to Las Vegas, room tax revenue dedicated to paying the public’s contribution of Allegiant Stadium is running behind needed amounts.
The Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada, which oversees 1,577 traffic signals, gets its fair share of complaints, receiving 160 traffic signal complaints in 2020.
Raiders owner Mark Davis appears to be all in on Las Vegas as he has entered into an agreement to purchase the Aces WNBA franchise from MGM Resorts.
After missing its planned 2020 construction start date, the company behind the high-speed rail project between Las Vegas and Southern California hopes work can begin this year.
Travelers will have a new nonstop route this summer to fly between Las Vegas and Wyoming.
The lengthy letter sent to the committee’s membership from Chairman Chris Zimmerman claimed, among other things, that President Donald Trump would serve four more years, accused Vice President Mike Pence of treason and blamed Antifa for the invasion on the Capitol last week.
Crews broke ground on the $155 million final phase of the Centennial Bowl interchange project Monday where U.S. Highway 95 and the 215 Beltway, according to the Nevada Department of Transportation.
Allegiant Stadium could be used as a COVID-19 vaccination site once mass vaccinations in Southern Nevada begin.
A daytime closure of a Spaghetti Bowl connector ramp this weekend will impact traffic near downtown.
In a cost-cutting measure McCarran International Airport will close its Terminal 1 economy parking lot later this week.
Tony Hsieh is once again looking over downtown Las Vegas, this time in the form of a memorial at Zappos headquarters, the online retailer he once oversaw.
With Nevada ranking among the highest cases in human trafficking in the nation local law enforcement and victims need all the help they can get.
A portion of Las Vegas Boulevard closed to traffic Thursday evening to allow revelers to ring in 2021.
As 2020 comes to a close, local transportation officials hope the Las Vegas Valley can leave the ‘worst year ever’ behind them in their rear view mirrors.
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