A crash involving a motorcycle and a pickup truck in the southwest valley on Saturday turned deadly for one, Nevada Highway Patrol said in an email.
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The motorcyclist was traveling westbound at a high rate of speed on Washington Avenue near Rancho Drive just after 8 p.m. when he hit a car, police said.
The man was struck by a pickup truck heading south on Boulder Highway between Missouri and Hamilton avenues just after 5:20 p.m., police said.
Zoox’s Las Vegas robotaxi service is back in operations after a multiday pause in passenger rides.
Boring Co.’s Vegas Loop project received its first building permit in the city of Las Vegas’ jurisdiction, after five years of operations in Clark County.
As of 8:45 p.m., Eastern was still shut down between Flamingo and Harmon Avenue in both directions as investigators combed the scene.
Streets in different parts of the Las Vegas Valley will be closed or disrupted for different reasons beginning Wednesday.
An early morning crash caused the ramp from southbound Interstate 15 to northbound U.S. Highway 95 to be closed for a while Tuesday, according to the Regional Transportation Commission.
All lanes of southbound Interstate 15 near Lake Mead Boulevard are open after part of the highway was blocked by debris from a crash Tuesday morning, according to Nevada Highway Patrol.
The first noticeable construction for Project Neon, the $1.5 billion Spaghetti Bowl overhaul that begins next month, won’t be anywhere close to the interchange between Interstate 15 and U.S. Highway 95.
The Nevada Department of Transportation will close the eastbound U.S. Highway 95 ramp to Martin Luther King Boulevard from 9 p.m.Monday until 5 a.m. Tuesday for Project Neon-related survey work, according to a department news release.
A man threatening to jump off an overpass near Interstate 15 and Flamingo road slipped and fell, according to Metro Lt. Jeff Goodwin.
The Nevada Highway Patrol has released the results from its Friday team-up with the California Highway Patrol, Metro and Henderson police to catch spring break speeders on Interstate 15.
A woman was struck by a car at the intersection of Rock Springs Drive and Smoke Ranch Road, according to Metro spokeswoman Laura Meltzer.
Spring breakers beware. Interstate 15 between Nevada and California is going to be hot with highway patrol troopers starting Friday.
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The motorcyclist was traveling westbound at a high rate of speed on Washington Avenue near Rancho Drive just after 8 p.m. when he hit a car, police said.
Zoox’s Las Vegas robotaxi service is back in operations after a multiday pause in passenger rides.
Boring Co.’s Vegas Loop project received its first building permit in the city of Las Vegas’ jurisdiction, after five years of operations in Clark County.
The crash happened at 12:50 a.m. Tuesday in the eastbound lanes of the I-215 at Jones Boulevard in the southern Las Vegas Valley, the Nevada Highway Patrol said.
