Officials are warning EDC partygoers to brace for traffic delays on roads leading to Las Vegas Motor Speedway, site of the festival that starts Friday.
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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.
Two-thirds of Clark County voters supported the Oakland Athletics’ ballpark plan after hearing arguments against it.
A section of a popular north-south road for Strip property workers to travel through the resort corridor will close for multiple days next week.
Major League Soccer is expected to announce Thursday that San Diego will be awarded the league’s 30th franchise. At one point, Las Vegas was considered the front-runner.
Employees at the Tropicana received mixed messages about when the property may temporarily close as the Oakland Athletics’ Las Vegas ballpark plan continues to take shape.
Motorists should brace for traffic impacts on Interstate 15 just north of Las Vegas.
The owners of the Tropicana want to see a $1.5 billion, 30,000-seat ballpark built on their site.
The Athletics decision to switch their preferred ballpark site to the Tropicana property will bring more than a team to the south Strip. It will also bring traffic.
The Oakland Athletics and the Culinary Union 226 have struck a deal on potential Las Vegas stadium workers having the right to union contracts.
Golden Knights owner Bill Foley is ready to welcome the Oakland Athletics as a new neighbor on the Strip.
The area named after the driver will be situated within the Oracle Red Bull grandstands for November’s Las Vegas Grand Prix.
Plans for the A’s $1.5 billion, 30,000-seat stadium at the Tropicana resort site call for the baseball diamond to face northwest.
Plans call for the Tropicana to be demolished, with the A’s set to build a partially retractable roof ballpark on nine of the 35 acres of the south Strip site.
Construction on temporary structures for the Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix is slated to begin next month.
LVCVA President and CEO Steve Hill said the walkability of the race’s footprint is something that isn’t really possible elsewhere.