Rock-solid planes were unusual at Paper Plane Palooza. Many of the planes did not sail through the air like rockets. They were floppy, or they did loops, or they were excellent gliders, drifting like dandelions on the air-conditioned breeze, twirling and spinning, at the mercy of physics, aerodynamics, landing softly perhaps 12 feet away.
We live in the desert, and there’s prickly stuff everywhere.
So far, Clark County isn’t getting a groundswell of opposition to a proposed fuel tax that county commissioners are considering.
A multi-vehicle wreck has shut down traffic in both directions on Desert Inn Road between Backstage Boulevard and Sandhill Road.
Work on a traffic light pole at the intersection at Twain Avenue and Swenson Street is expected to cause delays beginning at 1 p.m. Wednesday.
Gov. Brian Sandoval said Monday he wants a study of road-funding options — including the potential of a “vehicle miles traveled” tax — completed in time for a policy debate in the 2015 Legislature.
Two women were in critical condition Monday afternoon at University Medical Center after they were hit in a crosswalk by a car at Bonanza Road and Wardelle Street, near Mojave Road.
CARSON CITY — If Nevada’s 150th anniversary license plate isn’t on your must-have list, Department of Motor Vehicles officials hope two other new license plates might pique your interest.
A tractor-trailer that caught fire is blocking traffic Monday along Interstate 15 near Blue Diamond Road.
A man who died after crashing his motorcycle near Lake Mead on Sunday morning has been identified.
As seven of the eight churchgoers struck Thursday night by an 18-year-old driver were released from the hospital, North Las Vegas police attention shifted to the whereabouts of the driver’s 1-year-old son.
“Every time I go over a crossing,” says engineer John McKelvey, “somebody runs it.”
He proved it Wednesday, when his employer, Union Pacific Railroad, invited reporters and photographers to observe a sting operation.
A 24-year-old woman was killed after her car was hit by a concrete mixer truck in the northwest Las Vegas valley late Wednesday morning.
Certified translators and bilingual residents clashed Wednesday at a DMV public workshop held to develop rules for the new driver authorization cards that are expected to be issue to an estimated 60,000 people who live in Nevada illegally.
Traffic is backed up after a cement mixer and vehicle collided near Alexander Road and the Las Vegas beltway.
A recent Wall Street Journal poll of leading economists put the probability of the United States going into recession over the next 12 months at 63 percent. Conventional wisdom is that the Federal Reserve Bank will continue raising interest rates to combat stubborn high inflation, thereby slowing the economy and causing gross domestic product to […]
At Lamb Boulevard and Hacienda Avenue, drifting and doughnuts have been a recurring issue.
A major road project planned for Interstate 11 in downtown Las Vegas that could have cost more than $5 billion has been shelved, partly because of rising construction costs.
A stretch of the 215 Beltway is scheduled for a full weekend closure next week, which will heavily impact commutes in the Summerlin area.
Las Vegas motorists should plan for a pair of directional closures of Interstate 15 near the resort corridor.
