These were some of Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Bryan Horwath’s most memorable local news stories of 2025.
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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 motorcyclist is in critical condition after being hit by another vehicle near Tropicana Avenue and Topaz Street Wednesday afternoon.
Interstate-15 northbound to Mesquite is closed near Logandale due to a semi-truck fire, according to the Nevada Department of Transportation.
A woman is dead after being pitched from a moving vehicle Tuesday night, Las Vegas police said.
At least one NASCAR fan remains livid at Las Vegas Motor Speedway officials after he and thousands of other race fans who attended Sunday’s Kobalt 400 race were not allowed to leave a locked parking lot until an hour after the race was over.
The Clark County Public Works Department has some advice for drivers in the neighborhoods around the Desert Rose Golf Course and it has nothing to do with golf.
A series of long-range transportation proposals that would keep the flow of tourists into Las Vegas while maintaining local goods deliveries and commuter traffic was unveiled Tuesday to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority’s board of directors.
CARSON CITY — The discovery of naturally occurring asbestos in and around Boulder City is delaying work on a $600 million highway bypass around the community while the state Transportation Department tries to figure out how to deal with the issue.
The state Transportation Board delayed action Monday on a research project that would cost the agency $1 million over four years because of concerns about the availability of federal road funds beginning later this year.
Tina Quigley planned for a career in aviation, but finds herself flying a desk these days as general manager of the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada, and she wouldn’t have it any other way.
The Nevada Taxicab Authority remains gridlocked in its efforts to clamp down on the practice that regularly gives the Southern Nevada tourism industry one of its biggest black eyes — illegal long-hauling to jack up fares.
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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.”
