A drilling project will cause traffic trouble along Las Vegas Boulevard from Tonopah Avenue to Craig Road, which is roughly from Jerry's Nugget Casino to the entrance to Nellis Air Force Base.

The Nevada Department of Transportation will restrict both north and southbound lanes along the busy street from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday. Crews will be closing the right lanes and bus lanes in both directions for 20 to 30 minutes at a time. Two lanes of traffic in both directions will remain open.

Crews will be taking soil samples to determine what kind of construction materials they will need to use to repave the road in the future. 

Burgan has enjoyed three decades in aviation.

While tending to teletype machines in the United States Air Force, Jim Burgan was introduced to life in the control tower. He couldn't get enough.

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NASCAR weekend brings a lot of race fans to southern Nevada, but it also brings heavy traffic to the area around the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Organizers have a new solution for this year's race, which is March 9 through 11. They will be enforcing parking rules along Hollywood Boulevard. Cars parked illegally along the street will be towed. The president of the Las Vegas Motor Speedway says illegally parked cars have caused problems. He says people getting into illegally parked cars along Hollywood Boulevard make it difficult for people to get out of the speedway. Plus, when those people get into their cars and try to leave, they slow up the flow of traffic.