A crash involving a motorcycle and a pickup truck in the southwest valley on Saturday turned deadly for one, Nevada Highway Patrol said in an email.
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The motorcyclist was traveling westbound at a high rate of speed on Washington Avenue near Rancho Drive just after 8 p.m. when he hit a car, police said.
The man was struck by a pickup truck heading south on Boulder Highway between Missouri and Hamilton avenues just after 5:20 p.m., police said.
Zoox’s Las Vegas robotaxi service is back in operations after a multiday pause in passenger rides.
Boring Co.’s Vegas Loop project received its first building permit in the city of Las Vegas’ jurisdiction, after five years of operations in Clark County.
The 20-year-old’s death at South Boulder Highway and East Russell Road came just after 9 a.m. Saturday.
The area is part of the Formula 1 race course and will be closing this evening for the first night practice sessions.
AAA said it expects over 55 million Americans to travel this Thanksgiving weekend, and it offered some tips for those taking to the roads.
The closure and reopening of several streets in the resort corridor was a test Wednesday morning. County officials say they’ll do better getting streets open on race days.
Lake Mead Boulevard was closed in both diretions Tuesday afternoon near Martin Luther King Boulevard due to ongoing police activity in the area.
“It makes a bunch of sense,” LVCVA president and CEO Steve Hill said. “If you go out there now, traffic is better than it was before we built all this and that bridge is a big part of that.”
Late night motorists should avoid portions of Las Vegas Boulevard this week as overnight shutdowns are planned for Las Vegas Grand Prix track testing.
The stretch of road is probably the smoothest in the Las Vegas Valley, with the circuit seeing two rounds of paving operations over the course of several months to get the track up to race code.
Clark County is looking to bolster its school crossing guard program to include the middle schools.
Security will be tight and in some areas visitors will need a ticket or hospitality reservation.
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The motorcyclist was traveling westbound at a high rate of speed on Washington Avenue near Rancho Drive just after 8 p.m. when he hit a car, police said.
Zoox’s Las Vegas robotaxi service is back in operations after a multiday pause in passenger rides.
Boring Co.’s Vegas Loop project received its first building permit in the city of Las Vegas’ jurisdiction, after five years of operations in Clark County.
The crash happened at 12:50 a.m. Tuesday in the eastbound lanes of the I-215 at Jones Boulevard in the southern Las Vegas Valley, the Nevada Highway Patrol said.
