These were some of Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Bryan Horwath’s most memorable local news stories of 2025.
Traffic
The latest Las Vegas traffic news, road closures, construction and other updates.
The monorail will run on overdrive this week as revelers look to get around the Las Vegas Strip while it’s shut down for New Year’s Eve activities.
Three of the largest road projects in Southern Nevada that ended in 2025, were worth a combined $538 million.
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.
A driver is dead following a two-car crash in the east valley Friday afternoon, Las Vegas police said.
The Nevada Highway Patrol trooper whose patrol car was hit by two cars in 30 minutes over the weekend is resting comfortably at home, the agency said Monday.
The city of Las Vegas plans to spend about $900,000 to design a bridge over the railroad tracks between Main Street and Symphony Park, the 61-acre former railroad yard often called the heart of Las Vegas’ downtown redevelopment efforts.
If you travel on commercial airliners and use your Nevada driver’s license as an identification card when you pass through the security line at the airport, you’re going to have to spice up your ID card the next time you renew it.
Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada Chairman Larry Brown reminded Nevada Transportation Department Director Rudy Malfabon on Thursday that he’s counting on him to recommend equitable funding for numerous Southern Nevada projects in 2015.
The man who was hit and killed overnight Saturday while crossing Boulder Highway was identified Thursday by the Clark County coroner’s office.
While traffic fatalities declined slightly in Southern Nevada in 2014, deaths rose by nearly 7 percent in the state as a whole. Data released this week showed that 284 traffic fatalities occurred on Nevada roads in 2014, an increase of 18 deaths over 2013.
A multi-vehicle crash on Interstate-15 northbound at the Spring Mountain Road exit has partially blocked the off-ramp and sent a man to a hospital, according to Nevada Highway Patrol.
Las Vegas police have arrested the driver of a car they say hit a boy Monday, which led to the closure of westbound lanes of Owens Avenue near Lamb Boulevard.
A new series of specialty license plates will encourage motorists to “share the road” — a message made available by the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles only possible because some other specialty plate had fallen out of public favor.
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Harrah’s Las Vegas would like to congratulate famed Las Vegas headliner and legendary U.S. entertainer Donny Osmond for again taking home the gold. For five years running, he has won the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s Best of Las Vegas readers poll for entertainment awards.
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.”
