Nevada averages nearly 130 boat crashes resulting in death, injury or property damage per 100,000 registered boat owners.
Mick Akers
Transportation reporter
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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.
The positive test comes during the first week Nevada Department of Motor Vehicle offices reopened after being shut down for nearly three months due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
As Nevada idles in Phase Two of its reopening plan Las Vegas’ event centers sit largely unfilled, with the exception of some hosting events sans fans.
As dazzling as the stadium is on the outside, it’s just as, if not more, impressive inside the 1.75-million-square-foot facility.
The planned Interstate 15/Tropicana Avenue interchange project got a financial boost Thursday to the tune of $50 million.
The first of the fan-focused legacy bricks have been laid at the Raiders’ Allegiant Stadium.
Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles offices will be closed and all online services will be down Saturday, following the first week of in-person services being available following a three-month shutdown.
In what is the first “super” event that is hoped to take place in the nearly complete Allegiant Stadium, crews tested an important game-day feature, the plumbing system.
When a rush of 65,000 fans fills Allegiant Stadium for Raiders and UNLV football games and other large events roads around the $2 billion facility will be closed to vehicle traffic.
The reopening marks the first time since March 17 that motorists are allowed inside DMV locations to complete transactions.
Take a look inside the Intermountain Healthcare Performance Center, which the Raiders will soon call home.
A retired nuclear reactor and transport rig weighing in at 2.4 million pounds — the largest load ever to travel on Nevada roads — will soon begin a seven-day trip from Apex to Utah.
Crews are carrying out the finishing touches on both interior and exterior portions of the over $75 million facility. The team’s new home is expected to be finished later this month.
Additional vending machines selling personal protective equipment were launched Friday at Las Vegas’ McCarran International Airport as passenger traffic ramps up with the reopening of resort properties along the Strip.
A second leg of a planned multipurpose trail running through the Red Rock National Conservation Area received federal funding to move forward.