Raiders owner Mark Davis appears to be all in on Las Vegas as he has entered into an agreement to purchase the Aces WNBA franchise from MGM Resorts.
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Mick joined the Las Vegas Review-Journal in November 2018 and covers sports business and transportation. He previously worked at the Las Vegas Sun covering a variety of beats including transportation, business, gaming, and city and county government. Prior to that, he worked at the Pahrump Valley Times, where he was named the Nevada Press Association’s Outstanding Journalist in the intermediate category for his coverage of the Lamar Odom brothel overdose situation, rural healthcare and more. Mick was born in Texas but grew up in Las Vegas, attending UNLV’s Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies where he was a member of the Kappa Tau Alpha National Journalism Society.
After missing its planned 2020 construction start date, the company behind the high-speed rail project between Las Vegas and Southern California hopes work can begin this year.
Travelers will have a new nonstop route this summer to fly between Las Vegas and Wyoming.
The lengthy letter sent to the committee’s membership from Chairman Chris Zimmerman claimed, among other things, that President Donald Trump would serve four more years, accused Vice President Mike Pence of treason and blamed Antifa for the invasion on the Capitol last week.
Crews broke ground on the $155 million final phase of the Centennial Bowl interchange project Monday where U.S. Highway 95 and the 215 Beltway, according to the Nevada Department of Transportation.
Allegiant Stadium could be used as a COVID-19 vaccination site once mass vaccinations in Southern Nevada begin.
A daytime closure of a Spaghetti Bowl connector ramp this weekend will impact traffic near downtown.
In a cost-cutting measure McCarran International Airport will close its Terminal 1 economy parking lot later this week.
Tony Hsieh is once again looking over downtown Las Vegas, this time in the form of a memorial at Zappos headquarters, the online retailer he once oversaw.
With Nevada ranking among the highest cases in human trafficking in the nation local law enforcement and victims need all the help they can get.
A portion of Las Vegas Boulevard closed to traffic Thursday evening to allow revelers to ring in 2021.
As 2020 comes to a close, local transportation officials hope the Las Vegas Valley can leave the ‘worst year ever’ behind them in their rear view mirrors.
Nine months after the pandemic’s start, McCarran International Airport’s passenger traffic has started to inch higher but remains a fraction of what it was in prior years.
Despite recommendations from officials not to travel over the holidays, Americans have been setting pandemic passenger highs at airports across the nation.
Despite the cancellation of the annual New Year’s Eve fireworks show on the Las Vegas Strip, a portion of the boulevard and Interstate 15 on and off ramps will shut to traffic to ring in 2021.