Las Vegas Sun

April 23, 2024

New Year's Eve 2012

  • Guests pack the Fremont Street Experience just before midnight Monday, Dec. 31, 2012.

    Hundreds of thousands ring in 2013 in Las Vegas

    January 1, 2013

    By Ric Anderson,
    Brian Nordli,
    Conor Shine,
    Dave Toplikar,
    Jackie Valley

    With fireworks, fanfare and frivolity, Las Vegas once again showed the world Monday night how to put on a New Year's Eve party as 300,000-plus New Year's Eve revelers on the Las Vegas Strip and Fremont Street braved sub-freezing temperatures to toast the first few ticks of 2013.

  • David Harley of Canada celebrates during the New Years Eve party at the Fremont Street Experience Monday, Dec. 31, 2012.

    Blog: Celebrating New Year’s Eve, Vegas style

    December 31, 2012

    By Ric Anderson,
    Brian Nordli,
    Conor Shine,
    Jackie Valley

    Despite a nip in the air as temperatures drop into the 30s, Las Vegas is giving its traditional warm New Year's Eve welcome to hundreds of thousands of visitors tonight throughout the Strip and in the downtown's Fremont Street. As the expected gathering of some 314,000 revelers celebrate, Sun reporters and photographers will be capturing the sights and sounds of celebration.

  • The control panel for the Treasure Island rooftop fireworks is seen in the foreground, Monday, Dec. 31, 2012. The main control panel for all seven rooftop firework set-ups is triggered from the Rio.

    NYE fireworks show: One year of preparation over in 8 minutes, 12 seconds

    December 31, 2012

    By William D'Urso

    Just before midnight, when hundreds of thousands of people on the Strip look toward the sky for the $500,000 fireworks show, Felix Grucci Jr. will be nervously awaiting the climax of what has been a year of preparation. “I’m 61 years old. I’ve been doing this all my life,” he said. “I still get nervous. When you push that button, is it going to work? Will everything work?” Any number of factors – high winds, rain or technical difficulties with the charges – can put a crimp in the fireworks display.

  • Revelers cheer as they welcome the 2013 New Year at the first-ever public New Year Countdown at Myoma grounds in Yangon, Myanmar, Monday, Dec. 31, 2012.

    U.S., Europe hope the new year brings better times

    December 31, 2012

    Jennifer Peltz and Verena Dobnik, Associated Press

    From teeming Times Square to a once-isolated Asian country celebrating its first public New Year's Eve countdown in decades, the world looked to the start of 2013 with hope for renewal after a year of economic turmoil, searing violence and natural disasters.

  • Fireworks explode in the sky over St. Basil Cathedral as Russians celebrate New Year on Red Square in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013.

    World gives enthusiastic welcome to 2013

    December 31, 2012

    By Rod McGuirk and Syliva Hui, Associated Press

    Lavish fireworks displays ushered in 2013 across the Asia-Pacific region on Tuesday, and Europe was holding scaled-back festivities and street parties in the hope of beginning a new year that will be kinder to its battered economies.

  • Tammy Cooke of Henderson, who's birthday is Dec. 31, gets a birthday shot from a bartender during TributePalooza at the Fremont Street Experience in downtown Las Vegas on New Year's Eve Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011.

    Event guide: New Year’s Eve Weekend 2012

    December 28, 2012

    By Allison Duck

    With New Year's Eve falling on a Monday this year, Las Vegas parties will run all weekend long.

  • Crowds watch and react to the fireworks display above the Strip on New Year's Eve, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011.

    Metro Police restricting vehicle access to the Strip starting at 5 p.m. Monday

    December 28, 2012

    By Conor Shine

    Local law enforcement officers will begin restricting access to the Las Vegas Strip at 5 p.m. Monday in preparation for the hundreds of thousands of revelers that will flood the boulevard to ring in the New Year, Metro Police said Friday. Las Vegas Boulevard will be closed from Russell Road to Sahara Avenue on Monday night and early Tuesday morning due to the New Year’s Eve celebrations.

  • Koi's crispy rice is addictive all by itself, but it comes topped with Kobe beef, yellowtail tartare, or here, spicy tuna.

    Dining guide: Special Las Vegas menus for New Year’s Eve 2012

    December 28, 2012

    By Allison Duck

    It's time to ring in another year and what better way to do it than with a memorable meal.

  • Officer Kelly Korb of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Mounted Unit patrols the Las Vegas Strip on Friday, December 7, 2012.

    Not horsing around: Mounted police saddle up for New Year’s Eve, other big events

    December 27, 2012

    By Dave Toplikar

    Metro Police Officer Kelly Korb was on the beat in downtown Las Vegas when she spotted a man she suspected was selling crack cocaine. As he noticed Korb coming toward him, the man started to run. Korb took off after him, chasing him into the Western Casino, which would cause a commotion in any case, but even more so because Korb was riding a 1,200-pound police horse at the time.

  • Partygoers take to the Strip to ring in the new year, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011.

    Nevada welcomes 2012 with big crowds, fireworks

    January 1, 2012

    Associated Press

    Thousands of partiers packed the Las Vegas Strip on Saturday night and welcomed 2012 with casino rooftop fireworks, expensive celebrity-studded parties at nightclubs and an urge to bid adieu to 2011.

  • The Bellagio on the Las Vegas Strip.

    Bellagio hit with power outages New Year’s Eve

    January 2, 2012

    By Dave Berns

    The west wing of the Bellagio’s main tower had intermittent power outages throughout the afternoon and early evening Saturday, leading to the New Year’s Eve day closure of the buffet and the loss of power to several hundred hotel rooms.