From the Moapa Zoo to O.J. Simpson to the Bunkhouse Saloon, here’s a look back at some of the people and places we wrote about this year.
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Gov. Brian Sandoval on Tuesday appointed Terri Albertson as director of the Department of Motor Vehicles, effective immediately. Albertson had been serving as the interim director since September following the retirement of Director Troy Dillard.
The state Board of Transportation was told Monday that Ames Construction Inc. is the “apparent best value” proposer to design and build a new road to improve access to the Tesla battery plant at a cost of $75.9 million.
Nevada will receive millions in new transportation dollars and a significant interstate designation was given to a future route linking Las Vegas and Reno under a five-year, $305 billion measure signed into law Friday by President Barack Obama.
It could be some time before officials know what caused a fire at a low-level radioactive waste dump in Nye County that shut down a 140-mile stretch of Nevada’s main north-south highway for almost 24 hours.
Uber and Lyft could begin operating within 30 days following action Monday by the Legislative Commission.
Even though transportation regulators have proposed knocking down the cost for a transportation network company to be licensed in the state, it’s still substantially higher than anyplace Uber and Lyft operate.
Southbound Interstate 15 will be closed at Yates Well Road just south of the California border from 1-4 a.m., and traffic will be diverted off the highway at Primm. Northbound traffic won’t be affected.
Southbound Interstate 15 will be closed at Primm early Wednesday morning for a sign installation project just south of the California border.
Transportation engineers inspected 55 bridges within 50 miles of the epicenter of the May 22 quake and found no problems.