Raiders rookie quarterback Aidan O’Connell made a special delivery last week, handing off a pair of Super Bowl tickets to a deserving Las Vegas Valley educator.
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 nearly 60-year-old resort on the Las Vegas Strip is scheduled to be demolished to make room for a new Athletics ballpark.
Traffic fatalities in 2023 were down compared with fatalities in 2022, but it was still one of the deadliest years on Nevada roads in nearly two decades.
With the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers set to meet in the Super Bowl at Allegiant Stadium, traffic preparations for the Big Game are full speed ahead.
The Kansas City Chiefs will practice in enemy territory leading up to the Super Bowl at the Raiders’ practice facility in Henderson.
Raiders quarterback Aidan O’Connell said he’s ready to compete for his starting role after a rookie season filled with ups and downs.
“Luckily we make more money with one exhibition soccer game at the Coliseum than we do throughout the entire A’s season,” Leigh Hanson, Mayor Sheng Thao’s chief of staff, said.
With design work still ongoing, Oakland Athletics owner John Fisher didn’t reveal specifics about what the planned ballpark would include.
The planned 218-mile, high-speed rail line will primarily run along the Interstate 15 median with trains capable of reaching 186 mph.
Tropicana Avenue over Interstate 15 is scheduled to close next weekend for crews to increase road capacity ahead of the Super Bowl.
In the movie industry, sequels are usually worst than the original and when it comes to traffic projects, that is no different.
Planning for the Super Bowl began more than two years ago, and the NFL and its Las Vegas partners are close to reaping the benefits from a worldwide audience.
The Oakland A’s need a place to play for the 2025-27 MLB seasons. A stadium under construction in a Utah suburb has their attention.
The Oakland Athletics are making site visits as they try to figure out where they will play once their Oakland Coliseum lease is up after the 2024 season.
The newly constructed Interstate 15-Harmon Avenue half interchange now has an opening date.