These were some of Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Bryan Horwath’s most memorable local news stories of 2025.
Traffic
The latest Las Vegas traffic news, road closures, construction and other updates.
The monorail will run on overdrive this week as revelers look to get around the Las Vegas Strip while it’s shut down for New Year’s Eve activities.
Three of the largest road projects in Southern Nevada that ended in 2025, were worth a combined $538 million.
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.
A rollover of a semi-tractor trailer caused delays on southbound Interstate 15 near Primm.
A $33 million, nine-month, 20-mile upgrade of U.S. Highway 95 south of the Las Vegas Valley was completed this month.
A Las Vegas man was shot and wounded after fleeing a traffic stop when officers mistook his cellphone for a gun; he now faces multiple felony and misdemeanor charges.
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.
James Leamy Jr. had plans to become a trucker and build his own dune buggy. But after crashing his motorcycle in North Las Vegas on Dec. 12, his mother said “a whole part of me is gone.”
A crash in the northeast Las Vegas Valley on Sunday afternoon has shut down travel lanes and sent a driver to a trauma center.
The incident involved two vehicles that were heading north on Green Valley Parkway and then turning onto Silver Springs Parkway, police explained.
Police spoke with reporters on the corner of South Mojave and East Flamingo Road, just steps from where a pedestrian was fatally hit in a hit-and-run crash.
The fatal crash happened just before 4 a.m. on Nov. 29 at an east Las Vegas intersection.
Officers responded to the scene near the intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard and Bonanza Road around 7:50 p.m., police said.
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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.
James Leamy Jr. had plans to become a trucker and build his own dune buggy. But after crashing his motorcycle in North Las Vegas on Dec. 12, his mother said “a whole part of me is gone.”
