These were some of Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Bryan Horwath’s most memorable local news stories of 2025.
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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.
Representatives of Southern Nevada’s taxi industry on Wednesday called on the Nevada Taxicab Authority to step up efforts to impound illegally operating vehicles, specifically those associated with the ride-sharing company Uber.
The 132-foot, 1.2 million-pound locomotive Big Boy No. 4014 locomotive made a whistle stop in Las Vegas Tuesday night. It’s on display until 4 p.m. Wednesday before it resumes its journey at 7 a.m. Thursday to a restoration yard in Cheyenne, Wyo.
Sen. Harry Reid has announced more than $2.5 million in federal highway grants for projects in Nevada intended to improve safety on roads and interstates.
A Metro police officer was hospitalized with what the police department described as non-life threatening injuries after a collision near downtown Las Vegas Monday afternoon.
The city of Las Vegas’ long-envisioned plan to turn Main and Commerce streets downtown into parallel one-way couplets is on track and once the project that is expected to cost at least $34 million is done, a new president will be in the White House, Resorts World Las Vegas will be open on the Strip and students entering high school next fall will be ready for their senior year.
There’s a lot riding on a California law to grant driver’s licenses to immigrants in the country illegally and supporters are already preparing prospective drivers to pass the test required to get one.
Somebody has been shooting out the windows of buses and limousines with a pellet gun, and the executives of one company hit hardest has a message for those responsible: You’re going to get caught, and when you are, you’ll do time.
A Nevada company says it plans to revive passenger train excursions between Santa Fe, N.M., and the nearby northern New Mexico town of Lamy.
A rollover crash closed U.S. Highway 95 southbound lanes just north of Las Vegas on Friday morning. Nevada Highway Patrol responded to U.S. 95 just south of Corn Creek Road, which is between Kyle Canyon and Lee Canyon roads, around 10:30 a.m.
A rollover crash on Interstate 15 created delays for northbound drivers Friday morning.
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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.”
