Fremont Street Experience’s website is no longer selling wristbands that grant access to the six-block downtown entertainment district on New Year’s Eve.
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Las Vegas may have lowest number of tourists since before The Mirage opened its doors in 1989.
Nevada’s COVID-19 Mitigation and Management Task Force members are concerned that Fremont Street Experience’s plans for New Year’s Eve could lead to a surge in positive cases.
Nine months after the pandemic’s start, McCarran International Airport’s passenger traffic has started to inch higher but remains a fraction of what it was in prior years.
Despite recommendations from officials not to travel over the holidays, Americans have been setting pandemic passenger highs at airports across the nation.
One Las Vegas family’s plan for tropical getaway to Hawaii turned into a quarantine disaster after issues with an at-home COVID-19 testing service.
Dozens of conventions and business gatherings in Las Vegas have new dates in late 2021 or 2022.
As of Wednesday the TSA reported 101 confirmed cases of coronavirus among TSA employees at McCarran since the pandemic began, marking a 55 percent increase since Nov. 19, when 65 cases were noted by TSA data.
The Fremont Street Experience drew thousands of people last year. It’s the second major Las Vegas Valley event designed to ring in the new year that will not happen.
The lack of convention sand trade shows and fewer flights are the biggest reasons Strip properties are having greater financial angst than their locals counterparts.
When people have money to burn, Las Vegas heats up. But as seen twice now in the past decade or so, when the national economy gets hit hard, Southern Nevada ends up on life support.
Hawaiian Airlines is offering drive-through or walk-up COVID-19 testing at select cities to allow travelers to skip a mandatory quarantine upon their arrival in the islands.
According to a list compiled by the LVCVA, there are 36 events on the convention calendar in the first half of 2021.
After being removed from many state’s travel ban after the initial coronavirus impacts, the recent surge of COVID-19 cases in Nevada has put the Silver State back on those lists.
California, Oregon and Washington all issued travel advisories Friday aimed at reducing the possible spread of COVID-19 as cases across the nation are skyrocketing.