Reporter Aaron Drawhorn provides a security and traffic update as the Strip gets shut down for the New Year’s Eve party. What you need to know before you arrive for the celebration
If you are planning to celebrate New Year’s Eve on the Las Vegas Strip or Fremont Street, be aware that you are not allowed to bring backpacks, coolers, strollers or glass. There will also be an increase in security to ensure safe celebrations across town.
American Eagle flagship on the Las Vegas Strip lets you customize your clothing
The city of Las Vegas is ready to celebrate “America’s Party” with a new and improved fireworks show that will pay tribute to the Golden Knights.
Through dance, acrobatics and aerial arts, “Kinekt” tells a story all too familiar to modern families: how to maintain a human connection in the digital age. (Janna Karel Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Las Vegas Livestock collects and recycles food from many Las Vegas Strip companies. (Nicole Raz/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The start of the 2018 Rock ‘n’ Roll Las Vegas Marathon on the Las Vegas Strip, Nov. 11, 2018. (Richard Brian/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
It only takes a short walk through Circus Circus to realize it attracts a demographic like no other casino on the Strip: families with young children. (Todd Prince/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Months after developer Steve Witkoff bought the Fontainebleau last summer, he unveiled plans to turn the mothballed hotel into a Marriott-managed resort called The Drew. But if Richard “Boz” Bosworth’s plans didn’t fall through, the north Las Vegas Strip tower could have become a Waldorf Astoria with several floors of timeshare units. (Eli Segall/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The yearlong party on the Las Vegas Strip continued Thursday as Golden Knights fans showed up in droves to cheer on their hometown team against the San Jose Sharks.(Richard Brian/Las Vega Review-Journal)
A pair of robbery suspects led police to three parking garages around the Las Vegas Strip before they were caught early Tuesday morning.
The first robbery took place at the Treasure Island parking garage, where two suspects “battered” a 71-year-old, her adult daughter and a juvenile girl.
The suspects, one of who was armed, next demanded money and property from a pair of 18-year-olds at Fashion Show mall. The suspects were later spotted at the SLS Las Vegas parking garage. They tried to get away by ramming a patrol car with their vehicle. That effort failed and they were taken into custody.
Reno businessman plans $100M investment to revitalize SLS. Alex Meruelo will invest to revitalize the SLS Las Vegas after the Nevada Gaming Commission approved his acquisition. Meruelo told the commission Thursday that he would be able to make the property profitable by investing in the upgrades and redesign. “The capital investment is something that will make a dramatic impact. Things are already turning around, and I am very optimistic,” he said.
A white man accused of robbing a Strip casino in blackface in January was charged Friday in federal court, records show. Cameron James Kennedy, 26, was charged with robbery in the armed holdup of a casino cage at New York-New York, according to the U.S. Department of Justice and a federal criminal complaint filed last week. The Las Vegas man already was under federal supervision on prior bank robbery charges when he allegedly cut off his GPS monitoring bracelet and robbed the casino in the early morning of Jan. 10, according to the complaint. Kennedy used makeup to appear black, Las Vegas police said. On Jan. 18, an anonymous tipster told investigators that Kennedy robbed the casino.
Developer Steve Witkoff has renamed the former Fontainebleau: The Drew Las Vegas. We can’t tell you who Drew is — yet. But here’s what we know about the project: • 4,000 rooms • Will debut the Edition brand in Las Vegas and feature the Strip’s first JW Marriott • 500,000 square feet of convention and meeting space • The 60-plus story tower, mothballed since the recession, is scheduled to open in late 2020 • Purchase price: $600 million • Former Cosmopolitan CEO John Unwin will oversee The Drew’s launch and operations
Virtual reality on New York-New York’s Big Apple Coaster
Several RTC bus drivers were near the Las Vegas Village when Stephen Paddock began firing upon Route 91 concertgoers. They share their experiences. )Patrick Conolly/Las Vegas Review-Journal/Footage provided by Keolis Transit)
Hell’s Kitchen has opened on the Las Vegas Strip! Gordon Ramsay’s new restaurant boasts many nods to the hit television show, with pitchforks on the chairs, napkins and ceiling. The menu mirrors the show as well, with signature beef wellington, crispy skin salmon and sticky toffee pudding. Drinks include a bubbling “Chef’s Stew” gin cocktail and a “Smoke on the Blvd” smoked whiskey cocktail. Hell’s Kitchen is open for lunch and dinner.
Crime scene photos contained in the preliminary report on the Oct. 1, 2017, shooting in Las Vegas show the hotel room used by gunman Stephen Paddock at Mandalay Bay on the Strip.
T-Mobile’s new, nightclub-themed Las Vegas Strip store opened Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018. Visitors can access 25 portable phone chargers, a photo booth and a concierge desk for buying tickets to T-Mobile Arena. Upstairs is a virtual reality headset and a non-alcoholic drink bar with sodas and juice shots. The store employs 79 people and is 9,000 square feet. This is the company’s fifth signature-style store after New York, Chicago, Miami and Santa Monica.
People across the globe gather on the Las Vegas Strip and Fremont Street to ring in 2018. A crowd of 330,000 visitors was expected to fill the Strip and Fremont Street downtown. “We figured this was probably the safest place anywhere in the world,” said Lynn Cherry. “Being able to drink, walk around and have fun — it’s kind of like Disney for us,” said Vincent Martin.
Revelers celebrate the New Year by partying on the Las Vegas Strip and Fremont Street.