For the second time in a week, Las Vegas airport welcomed new nonstop international flight service on Friday.
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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.
Residents of a Las Vegas Valley neighborhood created their own roadblock to try to keep their area from becoming an unofficial U-turn area during a Project Neon detour.
After almost two weeks of continuous work on Intestate 15 because of Project Neon, paving efforts will wrap up Tuesday, a couple of days before enforcement of high-occupancy vehicle lanes begins.
The vigorous Project Neon paving work continues into the weekend as a stretch of Interstate 15 northbound will close over the weekend in downtown Las Vegas.
The North Las Vegas Airport unveiled its $2 million makeover Tuesday, boasting new flooring, furniture and wall art, in addition to a new exterior paint job, signage and lighting .
Lyft and the RTC are teaming up, providing up to $20,000 in free ride credits in June, in hopes passengers will use the two transit services to avoiding walking long distances in the summer heat.
The agencies will transfer various roadways over the next year-and-a-half aimed at increasing maintenance and operations of those roads.
Parents are urged to educate and lead by example for their teenage drivers, who are among the most at risk to be involved in a deadly crash between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
Despite aviation officials approving a study to look at the viability of a second commercial airport for Southern Nevada, flights wouldn’t begin until at least 2035.
Project Neon paving and striping work will take place this week on portions of both directions of I-15 stretching from Silverado Ranch Boulevard to Sahara Avenue.
A potential underground people mover system, constructed by the Elon Musk-owned Boring Co., could make travel to popular destinations up to four times faster than by car.
A water arch ceremony welcomed the inaugural nonstop KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight from Amsterdam Thursday in Las Vegas.
The Nevada Highway Patrol will saturate Interstate 15 and U.S. Highway 95 HOV lanes in a concentrated effort to enforce the new regulations beginning June 20.
Interstate 15 southbound between the Spaghetti Bowl and Sahara Avenue will close to traffic this weekend for Project Neon work.
Trio of overnight closures on U.S. Highway 95 this week to affect traffic near downtown Las Vegas. The closures are needed for paving and striping work associated Project Neon.