Seven cities, including Las Vegas, have been deemed finalists for Final Four championships between 2027 and 2031, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.
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.
Motorists on Interstate 15 this week will begin to encounter the first major road impacts tied to the $305 million reconstruction.
The new Clark County Office of Traffic Safety has taken initial steps toward its goals of having safer roadways, including cracking down on street racing.
Rob Manfred says A’s owner John Fisher “has invested really significant dollars in trying to get baseball in Oakland on an even footing, a sustainable footing over the long haul.”
The Raiders led the NFL in net ticket revenue generated in the 2021 NFL season, the first with fans allowed in Allegiant Stadium.
Of the 93,000 appointments booked in June at DMV offices across the state, just 52 percent of customers showed up.
Two questions readers frequently ask about the Boring Co.’s Vegas Loop plans are answered.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver noted Tuesday that league expansion to Las Vegas isn’t imminent, but that doesn’t mean an increased presence in Southern Nevada won’t be felt before that.
The weekend of soccer action begins July 22 with Chivas facing off with Juvenetus and continues with the sold-out July 23 match between Real Madrid and Barcelona.
In a sense, Adam Silver sees summer league as Las Vegas’ unofficial NBA team and he still claims that the NBA was first professional sport in Las Vegas, not the NHL or NFL.
The hiring of Sandra Douglass Morgan as team president by the Raiders last week drew resounding support, with some of the biggest of that admiration coming from Gov. Steve Sisolak.
Connecting Resorts World with the Las Vegas Convention Center via an underground transportation system is just the beginning, says the two-year-old property’s president.
Although it’s a short link across Las Vegas Boulevard, the recently opened Vegas Loop link from the Las Vegas Convention Center to Resorts World is a big deal.
The Review-Journal investigation revealed allegations from former employees, with some women alleging a troubling pattern of harassment and unequal treatment.
The Raiders selected Sandra Douglass Morgan, the former chairwoman of the Nevada Gaming Control Board, to be their new president Thursday. She is the first Black woman to assume such a role in the NFL.