With 2026 underway, the Reimagine Boulder Highway project in Henderson moves ahead, just surpassing the halfway mark.
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The latest Las Vegas traffic news, road closures, construction and other updates.
It was a busy news year for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. With the growth the Las Vegas Valley is experiencing, it’s not expected that 2026 will be any different.
Joshua Johnson, 31, was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on Friday.
Police targeting impaired driving in Nevada made thousands of traffic stops and more than one hundred arrests statewide on Dec. 31, local and state law enforcement said.
In addition, a vehicle fire closed the ramp from southbound Interstate 11 ramp to southbound I-15.
A car crash early Friday morning left one person dead in the central part of the Las Vegas Valley.
The installation of a storm drain to alleviate flood waters in the Northwest valley will begin Feb. 19.
The north side of Michael Way near Vegas Drive will be closed until Feb. 19 as crews continue to install a sewer line across the intersection.
A pedestrian struck by a vehicle near Flamingo Road and Linq Lane on Tuesday morning is at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center with critical injuries.
A 12-week construction project to improve Decatur Boulevard will start Thursday, the city of Las Vegas announced Tuesday morning.
Travelers at McCarran International Airport may soon be able to get expedited security screening. Beginning in late February, McCarran passengers can pay $85 to apply for the Known Traveler Number and avoid tedious checkpoint procedures for up to five years.
On at least 150 flights, including one involving a Southwest Airlines jet last month in Missouri and a jumbo cargo plane last fall in Kansas, U.S. commercial air carriers have either landed at the wrong airport or started to land and realized their mistake in time.
It’s not uncommon in the Las Vegas Valley to pass multiple adult entertainment businesses in a single commute.
Some Clark County government fleets should return to burning a Nevada-produced cleaner fuel by summer when construction of a refinery that mixes natural gas and diesel is expected to start in North Las Vegas.
The two Las Vegas residents who died in a car crash Wednesday afternoon on the Summerlin Parkway have been identified by the Clark County coroner’s office.
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Police targeting impaired driving in Nevada made thousands of traffic stops and more than one hundred arrests statewide on Dec. 31, local and state law enforcement said.
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.
