Clark County commissioners told the president of UNR they don’t believe his promises and threatened to dissolve University Medical Center’s relationship with the university’s medical school if the new dean doesn’t live in Las Vegas.
Dotty’s and similar taverns will have to perform substantial renovations or shut down after Clark County commissioners on Tuesday approved new regulations for taverns with slot machines.
The Nevada Department of Transportation is pushing forward with improvements to U.S. 93 in Boulder City that would help with congestion created after the opening of the Hoover Dam Bypass.
Part of Henderson’s Water Street is getting a makeover in preparation for a new express bus line. Work on Water Street began Wednesday for road improvements and new bus stops for the Boulder Highway Express.
A few residents along Interstate 15 in Las Vegas now know when the freeway will cover their homes, but some of their neighbors might have to wait another two decades before they get answers.
Residents of the northern part of the valley will soon have better access to the Las Vegas Beltway but will have to endure six months of detours first.
More closures and delays are scheduled over the next week for ramps to and from Interstate 15 in the southern valley. The ramp from Blue Diamond Road to northbound I-15 will be closed from 9 p.m. Sunday to 5 a.m. Monday for bridge work.
Passenger traffic increased at McCarran International Airport for the second straight month in February, the first time in more than a year the airport has seen back-to-back increases.
A nearly three-hour meeting on the future of University Medical Center came to no final conclusion Wednesday, but county commissioners said they want to proceed with building a medical school if the state’s higher education system will cooperate.
A major change could be coming to the valley’s public bus system but one that will likely not be noticed by most residents. The Regional Transportation Commission is negotiating a contract with a new company to run the bus system that carried 54.8 million people last year.
About 30 local youth were up early on Saturday morning when county officials spotted them painting on walls in the eastern valley. But the youngsters weren’t in trouble. They were giving up their morning to help cover markings on walls along U.S. 95.
Authorities banned truck traffic on Hoover Dam after the 9/11 attacks, and the federal government hustled to build the pricey and photogenic Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge.
Work on Las Vegas Boulevard traffic signals will require more lane closures this week than initially expected, the Regional Transportation Commission said.
If a fifth-grader points at a passing bus and tells you she decorated it, she might be telling the truth. Two lucky students got to see their art plastered on the side of a public bus Thursday.
Work on the Sahara Express bus line will require lane closures for Sahara Avenue on the western half of the valley in addition to closures already in place in the east.
It’s the type of small, family-run store that isn’t often seen today — all it sells is shoes, and mostly to senior citizens. Cesar’s Shoe World hopes to benefit from a project to add bus lanes to Sahara Avenue that will also add sidewalks and landscaping to the busy corridor outside the store, but first it has to survive the construction.
Some Las Vegas bus drivers are upset with the Regional Transportation Commission and think they can save it money, but the RTC says the union’s plan would likely increase costs.
The ramp to southbound I-15 from Blue Diamond Road and Blue Diamond between the Las Vegas Boulevard and I-15 will be closed Wednesday, Thursday and Monday nights from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. while crews put up girders.
Work on the road leading to the terminals at McCarran International Airport is wrapping up early, but the next road project is going to affect even more motorists who use the airport connector tunnel.
Motorists on the Las Vegas Strip will have extra obstacles to avoid over the next few months as crews work to improve traffic signals on Las Vegas Boulevard.
Clark County high school seniors can win one of 40 laptop computers from the Regional Transportation as part of an essay contest sponsored by Coca-Cola.
Work on Interstate 15 in the southern valley will require more freeway detours and ramp closures Sunday and Monday, including one that will affect the Las Vegas Beltway.
Motorists stuck in traffic on U.S. 93 might see relief a year sooner than expected thanks to a change in funding plans and an aggressive push from the Nevada Department of Transportation.
The number of visitors to Las Vegas was up 3.7 percent in December, bringing the total number of visitors in 2010 to more than 37.3 million, officials said Tuesday. The annual increase was 2.7 percent higher than in 2009.
Three weeks after being declared dead, a program to provide free rides home for drinkers on Super Bowl Sunday has been revived, just in time for the big game.
Problems at University Medical Center may force the hospital’s closure, but county commissioners decided Wednesday they needed more time to consider a consultant’s recommendations before taking any action.