A planned seven-hour power outage overnight Thursday on a 90-mile stretch of Interstate 15 between Las Vegas and Southern California will affect travelers.
Mick Akers

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.
Tickets to next year’s spring training games between the Athletics and Arizona Diamondbacks at Las Vegas Ballpark will go on sale this week.
With the 2024 MLB season officially over, the Athletics have dropped Oakland from their team name.
Allegiant Stadium would lose nearly 200 on-site parking spots to accommodate a Boring Company Vegas Loop station.
Single-day tickets for all three nights of the Las Vegas Grand Prix were put on sale Friday, with tickets starting as low as $99.
More than 6,000 runners are expected to participate in three races of the inaugural Las Vegas Marathon, which organizers hope becomes an annual event.
Despite being located in the eye’s view of many travelers of inbound and outbound flights, Harry Reid International Airport’s Station 13, to most, is a little-known secret.
While Las Vegas Grand Prix weekend room rates are still lagging behind last year, the market has seemingly stabilized. Here’s where rates sit just under 1 month out.
The Athletics laid out how the team plans to finance their Las Vegas Strip ballpark, with team owner John Fisher’s family set to contribute up to $1 billion.
With Donald Trump and Kamala Harris both planning Las Vegas Valley election rallies, motorists should brace for presidential-sized traffic impacts.
Organizers of the Formula One race have been moving some fans’ seats out of the West Harmon Zone. Now officials are offering a discount package in that zone.
The Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix is less than a month away as setup work continues around the 3.8-mile street circuit.
The yearslong Las Vegas Boulevard improvement project moves on with a new round of scheduled traffic impacts.
About 6,000 runners will take to Charleston Boulevard between Red Rock Canyon and downtown Las Vegas for the first-ever Las Vegas Marathon.
Allegiant Stadium will host two games between four college basketball powerhouses in 2027 as part of its preparation for the 2028 Final Four.