The Oakland Athletics are hosting a series of focus group meetings next week with Southern Nevada residents.
Mick Akers
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.
Language in the Oakland Athletics’ Las Vegas nonrelocation agreement includes an added clause by Major League Baseball tied to a potential altered playoff format.
As the Oakland Athletics’ continue moving forward on the Las Vegas relocation process, early design work has begun on uniforms.
Snow plows are commonly used on roads to clear winter snows, but they come in handy in the summer to deal with another nuisance on northeast Nevada roads — hordes of Mormon crickets.
As the summer begins, the bulk of the work on the yearslong Interstate 15-Tropicana Avenue project will enter into the final stretch.
Progress continues on the Oakland Athletics’ plan to build a $1.5 billion ballpark in Las Vegas. Senate Bill 1 became law a year ago, but steps remain before shovels hit the ground on the Strip.
Decades in the making, residents now have another option to cross the Colorado River between Laughlin and Bullhead City, Arizona.
The temporary Flamingo Road bridge over Koval Lane will be reduced for this year’s Formula One race to lessen impacts on area businesses, officials said.
As part of the Oakland Athletics’ nonrelocation agreement, the team could play seven home games per season away from Las Vegas and its planned Strip ballpark.
An unusual road feature in Henderson will become a thing of the past as Station Casinos plans to construct its latest hotel-casino in the area.
Luckily for Las Vegas drivers, there is an agency that is continually working and can be contacted to alert officials to potential mistimed traffic signals.
A portion of the Las Vegas Strip will be down to one travel lane for multiple days.
Residents throughout the Las Vegas Valley were reacting to the news that Donald Trump had become the first former president to be convicted of felony crimes.
With the project’s different backers and plans over the years, some might need a refresher on just all what the long-awaited project entails.
Las Vegas-based real estate development company LVXP said it has selected AECOM to carry out design and engineering services for the arena.