It was a busy news year for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. With the growth the Las Vegas Valley is experiencing, it’s not expected that 2026 will be any different.
Traffic
The latest Las Vegas traffic news, road closures, construction and other updates.
Joshua Johnson, 31, was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on Friday.
Police targeting impaired driving in Nevada made thousands of traffic stops and more than one hundred arrests statewide on Dec. 31, local and state law enforcement said.
In addition, a vehicle fire closed the ramp from southbound Interstate 11 ramp to southbound I-15.
Southern Nevada’s unusual weather resulted in some flight delays at Harry Reid International Airport early Friday.
A commercial vehicle caught fire on Interstate 15, causing all northbound lanes to close just south of Baker, Calif., according to the CHP.
The push to eradicate high occupancy vehicle lanes in the Las Vegas Valley continues, led by one of the state’s top transportation figures.
The accident occurred around 8:22 a.m. between mile markers 8 and 9, when a 2023 Aprilia Tuono motorcycle was traveling eastbound at “excessive speed.”
Weeks of 215 Beltway lane and ramp closures to hamper traffic near Harry Reid International Airport.
Las Vegas police is urging anyone with knowledge of a hit-and-run crash that killed an 81-year-old woman in the western valley to come forward with information.
A woman was killed Monday night in a crash in Pahrump that led to the closure of a major highway and the arrest of a driver.
Crews will repave and restripe stretches of the busy freeway as part of the years-long, $382 million reconstruction of the Tropicana Avenue interchange.
A total of 1,131 crash-related deaths occurred on Southern Nevada roads between 2019 and 2023.
Tuesday’s storms brought 70 mph winds that uprooted trees, tore down stoplights and trapped people in vehicles.
The crash happened when a white Ford F-250 pickup was traveling south in the northbound right lane of Interstate 15 near mile maker 53, according to troopers.
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Like many of us, Michael Towns once struggled to lose weight due to inconsistent dieting and overeating, and that struggle came with a series of health complications.
The company has begun limited Vegas Loop service to Harry Reid International Airport.
When the crowd of over 340,000 revelers ring in the new year this week on the Strip, many roads in and around the resort corridor will be shut to traffic.
As 2025 comes to an end, Santa won’t be the only thing coming to town as the Las Vegas Valley readies to host holiday and New Year’s Eve celebrations over the next two weeks.
James Leamy Jr. had plans to become a trucker and build his own dune buggy. But after crashing his motorcycle in North Las Vegas on Dec. 12, his mother said “a whole part of me is gone.”
