Various dignitaries are kicking off the nearly three-year-long project at a news conference Tuesday morning at Allegiant Stadium.
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Mick joined the Las Vegas Review-Journal in November 2018 and covers sports business and transportation. 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 first season with fans allowed to attend Raiders home games saw a fairly significant difference between paid attendance and actual attendance.
After years of talking about it, groundbreaking for a $305 million project to revamp the Tropicana-Interstate 15 interchange is set for Tuesday.
The several mile backup often seen on Interstate 15 at the Nevada-California border, as recently as Monday following Electric Daisy Carnival coming to an end, could soon see some relief.
Downtown Las Vegas to see U.S. 95 travel impacts this week, tied to paving operations for the viaduct rehabilitation project.
After two years of pandemic-related travel impacts many have been looking for any reason to take a trip out of town and Memorial Day is as good an excuse as any to make a weekend getaway.
The Oakland A’s Las Vegas ballpark site search is down to two sites, an A’s source indicated. A Las Vegas tourism official has mentioned possible public funding help.
Following the 2022 NFL schedule release, fans flocked to the secondary ticket market to get an early jump on nabbing a seat to their preferred contest.
In another sign of Las Vegas recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, the room tax that pays off the bonds used to build Allegiant Stadium is back on track.
The deal has yet to be finalized, but there is general optimism that the event, aimed to take place in July at Allegiant Stadium, will come to fruition, the source indicated.
Traffic restrictions will be in place Friday through Sunday as hundreds of thousands of expected EDM fans are set to converge on the speedway.
This summer Las Vegas will again take center stage in the soccer world when Chelsea FC and Club America meet July 16 at Allegiant Stadium.
Allegiant Air is kicking off exclusive NFL travel packages for fans planning to make the trek this season to catch Raiders games in Las Vegas.
Fans of the UFC can now represent their favorite sports organization on their vehicle and raise money for good causes.
With the Raiders and a bevy of other events already planned for Allegiant Stadium, officials are looking to add staff to work upcoming events at the $2 billion facility.