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.
Allegiant Air said a flight from Las Vegas to Missoula, Mont., was diverted after a light warned of a problem with the plane’s hydraulic system.
The Nevada Transportation Authority will study a proposal from a Las Vegas technology company to consider licensing and setting rates for a smartphone hailing application for limousines.
Watch for the price of gasoline to go up soon when fuel tax indexing results in an adjustment to the local tax rate.
The San Francisco ridesharing technology company that’s trying to get a foothold in the Southern Nevada transportation market says memoranda circulated by Las Vegas taxi companies are inaccurate in their depiction of how the company fails to stand behind its drivers on legal matters.
A vehicle fire has caused lane closures on Interstate 15, north of the Nevada state line, Arizona Department of Transportation said. The two southbound lanes affected are two miles north of the Nevada state line.
Managers of Southern Nevada’s largest taxi group have posted a memorandum to employees, warning them of the consequences of going to work for mobile application rideshare companies.
Specialty Vehicles recently sold six of its best selling Classic American Trolleys to Coastal Carolina University which will replace student shuttles.
Taxicabs and buses taking Electric Daisy Carnival fans to and from the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the site of the dusk-to-dawn electronic music festival June 20-22, will be allowed to drive through Nellis Air Force Base to avoid traffic.
Boulder City police are trying to figure out if a fatal moped crash on Wednesday was an accident or a hit-and-run.
A vehicle fire briefly slowed Henderson traffic Wednesday afternoon, Nevada Highway Patrol troopers say.
Partnered Content
Las Vegas Personal Injury attorney Ryan Alexander has always believed that the holidays should be a time of joy, hope, and togetherness. Determined to make a meaningful difference in the lives of others, he launched his charitable initiative, “Give Hope & Help.”
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.”
