Motorists will likely want to avoid Interstate 15 in the southern Las Vegas Valley most nights for the next two weeks. The freeway will be closed between the Las Vegas Beltway and Blue Diamond Road on Monday night.
Desert Inn Road will be closed between Valley View Drive and Paradise road Tuesday and Wednesday nights, county officials said. The closure is scheduled to take place from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. each night as crews install 32 concrete girders.
Property owners filed a record number of property tax assessment appeals this year, county officials said Thursday. The number of appeals filed was up 13.8 percent compared to last year — 9,450 appeals compared to 8,302 in 2010, officials said.
McCarran International Airport served nearly 39.8 million passengers in 2010, a 1.8 percent drop from the previous year, the airport reported Thursday.
The director of the Nevada Department of Transportation was in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday calling on senators to pass a multi-year surface transportation authorization bill.
It’s time for motorists who use Warm Springs Road in the southern valley to find an alternate route; the road’s Interstate 15 overpass is being torn down, leaving the road split for the next year.
Clark County has started using a new source for diesel fuel that is supposed to be less expensive and generate fewer emissions. The fuel, called GDiesel, is being produced in Nevada by Advanced Refining Concepts for the county’s diesel fleet and power generators.
Wednesday night’s construction on a new bridge for Blue Diamond Road at Interstate 15 didn’t go exactly as planed, causing extra-long closures for the interchange.
Las Vegas residents have a new option for crossing the valley thanks to the opening today of a bridge connecting Sunset Road over Interstate 15. Officials attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the bridge Thursday morning and it opened to traffic about noon. The bridge offers a new east-west route across I-15 but doesn’t have access to the freeway.
Horses were long ago replaced as the preferred method of transportation in Las Vegas, but it wasn’t until Friday that Horse Drive was given a proper freeway interchange on U.S. 95 in the northwest valley. The new $44 million interchange was opened by city officials after about 18 months of construction, giving nearby residents better access to the freeway and reducing congestion on Durango Drive.
Massive crowds arriving for the International Consumer Electronics Show helped set a record Wednesday for the number of taxis loaded at McCarran International Airport.
Visitors to the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show will be able to get around town easier this week thanks to extra buses, taxicabs and trains.
Final preparations are under way to accommodate the thousands of people expected to begin 2011 in Las Vegas. The Strip and downtown are expecting 320,000 visitors for New Year's Eve festivities, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.
Football fans going Wednesday to the sold-out MAACO Bowl Las Vegas game between Utah and Boise State can use a special bus line to avoid parking at Sam Boyd Stadium.
Next week’s scheduled closures on Las Vegas Boulevard in downtown have been postponed until mid-January because of inclement weather, city officials said Friday.
Nevadans who are watching their wallets this holiday season have an extra foe this year: the gas pump. The average price for a gallon of regular gas in Nevada is $3.07.
The suggestion that locals avoid parking at the airport by taking the bus is often met with a laugh, but the valley’s transit system is looking to change that and get more travelers and commuters to ride buses.
Residents and business owners near Sahara Avenue are preparing for construction to begin on the road as the Regional Transportation Commission starts building a new express bus route.
Las Vegas Valley residents traveling to Southern California might want to give themselves extra travel time for construction delays during the weekend.
A flood control project in the Centennial Hills area of Las Vegas will restrict traffic on Decatur Boulevard and Elkhorn Road for at least three months, city officials said.
Hinson Street, which runs parallel to Valley View Boulevard and Arville Street, will be closed between Charleston and Oakey boulevards for a month, city officials said.
If you were standing in a line to check out of a store on Black Friday, chances are you had a lot of company. Local malls reported seeing higher traffic and sales numbers than they’ve seen in a long time.
Crews have finished lane striping and switched traffic onto new four-lane divided highway lanes south of Hoover Dam, the Arizona Department of Transportation said today. The work is part of a $71.3 million project to widen of U.S. 93.
A turkey trying to cross Charleston Boulevard was nearly hit by passing motorists more than once Tuesday. But this wasn’t just any turkey braving traffic. It was a Metro Police officer wearing a turkey costume as part of a crosswalk enforcement campaign.
Despite the struggling economy, 42 million people are expected to travel 50 miles or more this long Thanksgiving weekend, an 11.4 percent increase from last year, AAA reports.
The northbound portion of the McCarran International Airport connector tunnel will be opened to its full three lanes next week for the first time in about a year. But travelers will have to watch out for another road closure in the area Sunday night.
Monica Mapile would have turned 19 years old Friday, but instead of getting ready to celebrate, her friends spent the day at church and at a tow-yard news conference to talk about seat belts.
Passenger traffic at McCarran was up 2 percent in October compared to the same month last year, the first such increase in nearly a year. The airport had 3,584,819 passengers arriving and departing in October.
New lanes on the roads north of the airport connector tunnel should make travel better for motorists traveling to and around McCarran International Airport starting Monday.
JetBlue Airways has its eye on Las Vegas for future growth as the airline rebrands its vacation offerings and considers the expansion of McCarran International Airport.