Transportation

Nevada gas prices up more than half-dollar from month ago

The days of filling up for $2 per gallon in Nevada may already be well behind us. The state’s average price per gallon climbed to $2.88 Tuesday ...

11 March 2015
By Andrea Domanick

Officials slam proposed ads on Strip pedestrian bridges

Some pedestrians carrying umbrellas, cross a foot bridge over Las Vegas Blvd. on Friday, Feb. 28, 2014.

The Las Vegas Strip is already saturated with advertisements, so what harm could be done by adding a few more to the pedestrian bridges that span ...

3 March 2015
By Conor Shine

Las Vegas airport monthly passenger traffic holds steady

A Delta plane taxis on the runway at McCarran International Airport on October 10, 2014.

Passenger traffic at McCarran International Airport held steady last month compared with January 2014. The monthly numbers released Thursday showed an overall increase of about ...

26 February 2015
Associated Press

States seek alternatives for highway, bridge funding

In this photo made with a 25-second exposure on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015, vehicles travel along Interstate 70 in Wright City, Mo. Built in the 1950s and '60s with an expected life of 20 years, a 200-mile span of the four-lane interstate between suburban St. Louis and Kansas City is crumbling beneath its surface as it carries more than 30,000 vehicles a day on many of its rural stretches.

Touted as one of the first interstate highways, a 200-mile span of Interstate 70 between suburban St. Louis and Kansas City stands as a prime example of the challenges facing the nation's roads ...

22 February 2015
By David A. Lieb, Associated Press

Alternative ways to pay for highway repairs, construction

In this Dec. 16, 2014, photo, work continues on the new Highway 520 floating bridge across Lake Washington as traffic moves along the adjacent, existing four-lane bridge between Medina, Wash., and Seattle. Washington has imposed fees on owners of electric vehicles, and Gov. Jay Inslee recently proposed a carbon-emissions tax on the state’s largest polluters that would help finance transportation projects. He describes it as “transportation pollution paying for transportation solutions.”

For nearly a century, the gasoline tax has provided the financial foundation for the nation's roads. For each gallon they pump, motorists have paid several additional cents in taxes to their state and federal governments.

22 February 2015
By David A. Lieb, Associated Press

Uncertainty in Nevada as federal highway funding in limbo

In this April 10, 2011, photo, traffic backs up heading southbound toward Lake Mead on U.S. Highway 93 in Boulder City. Hoover Dam, one of the world's great engineering feats, is marred by roads with traffic so jammed along the Nevada-Arizona border that it tells a different story about the political will to maintain 21st century infrastructure.

Per-capita federal highway funding going to Nevada, which had been climbing, fell 6 percent from 2008 to 2013 and faces an uncertain future even as the state's population grows and infrastructure ages.

22 February 2015
By Michelle Rindels, Associated Press

Plane lands in Las Vegas after pilot locked out of cockpit

A Delta jet at McCarran International Airport.

The pilot was locked out of the cockpit of a Las Vegas-bound Delta Air Lines flight today, forcing a first officer to land the plane, according to a McCarran Airport representative. Delta flight 1651 from ...

29 January 2015
By Pashtana Usufzy

Northeast storm triggers cancellations of Las Vegas flights

The view at John F. Kennedy International Airport as a major snowstorm moves into New York City on Monday, Jan. 26, 2015.

Dozens of flights between Las Vegas and the Philadelphia-to-Boston corridor were cancelled today as the Northeast braces for a powerful winter storm expected to dump as much as 3 feet of snow. According to McCarran International Airport’s website, more than ...

26 January 2015
By Ana Ley

Diamonds may be drivers’ new best friend

A newly designed highway interchange that opened this week at Horizon Drive and U.S. 95 in Henderson temporarily routes drivers to the left side of an overpass bridge. Why? State Department of Transportation officials say “diverging diamond interchanges” improve traffic flow and increase safety for motorists, bicyclists and pedestrians because ...

26 January 2015
By Jackie Valley

Wreckage believed to be small plane headed to Henderson

Authorities have tentatively confirmed that wreckage spotted in the Mojave Desert mountains is from a small airplane with a husband and wife aboard ...

21 January 2015
Associated Press

Remembrance too painful for sole survivor of Reno plane crash

In this Jan. 21, 1985, file photo, firefighters water down the wreckage of a Galaxy Airliner that crashed shortly after 1 a.m., killing all but one person aboard in Reno.

The lone survivor of a 1985 Reno airplane crash that killed 70 people who were returning from a Super Bowl junket says he can't bring himself to attend a memorial on the 30th anniversary of the disaster. George Lamson Jr. was 17 when Galaxy Airlines Flight 203 crashed in a field in south Reno on Jan. 21, 1985. Rescuers responding to the fiery wreckage found ...

20 January 2015
Associated Press

Nonstop flights from Reno-New York City big economic boost

JetBlue Airways' plans for the first non-stop, daily flights linking Reno and New York City have local business and tourism officials excited about the potential impact on the region's broader economy. New opportunities range from ...

19 January 2015
Associated Press

U.S. fines Southwest record $1.6 million for long flight delays

A Southwest Airlines jet takes flight in this undated file photo.

Southwest Airlines is being fined $1.6 million for not letting passengers get off planes that were stuck on the ground for hours during a freezing winter storm in Chicago. The storm hit during an increase in employees calling in sick, which the airline has said was widely seen as a protest against stalled contract negotiations. It is a record fine for ...

15 January 2015
By David Koenig, Associated Press

Las Vegas’ McCarran tops list of buzzworthy U.S. airports

McCarran International Airport is seen Saturday, Oct. 26, 2013.

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, except when travelers are stuck at the airport. According to a new report from the media tracking company Zignal Labs, McCarran Airport was the most mentioned airport on online media during ...

13 January 2015
By Andrea Domanick

Nevada’s new temporary license plates will be harder to fake

State officials say they're changing up temporary license plates that are easy to counterfeit. Officials from the Department of Motor Vehicles say they're adding security features to the paper placards ...

8 January 2015
Associated Press
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