Sights and sounds of the New Year’s Eve party in Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — America’s Party is in full swing in Las Vegas on Tuesday night.

Whether you’re in the crowd or at home on the couch, we want to help you ring in the new year on a high note.

LIVE LOOK: Sphere cam on New Year’s Eve

Channel 13 crews are out in the community keeping tabs on all the happenings as Las Vegas locals prepare to turn the page on 2024.

We’re live from the Strip and downtown Las Vegas at 10 p.m., and you can catch the fireworks in our live broadcast at 11:30 p.m. Tune in at ktnv.com/live.

Here are the sights and sounds of New Year’s Eve

Meteorologist Linh Truong has your fireworks forecast and looks ahead to a dry start to 2025:

A Dry Start to 2025

The party comes to Abel Garcia on the ground outside Caesars Palace:

Abel Garcia brings the party on the Strip for New Year’s Eve

Ryan Ketcham gets a breakdown of the Fremont Street Experience lineup on New Year’s Eve:

Ryan Ketcham and Andrew Simon on the NYE Fremont Street Experience lineup

Las Vegas Boulevard is closed to cars but open to the public. Revelers walk the Strip as they count down to midnight:

Revelers walk the Las Vegas Strip for New Year’s Eve

Abel Garcia checks in with visitors on the Strip spending their first New Year’s Eve in Las Vegas:

Abel Garcia speaks with visitors on the Strip for New Year’s Eve

And as we prepare to move forward, the new year is also a time to look back.

Lots of headlines were made in 2024, and we wanted to remember the stories that inspired us most.

For chief investigator Darcy Spears, it was helping a woman drowning in bureaucratic red tape. For Good Morning Las Vegas anchor Anjali Patel, it was seeing a little-known trailblazer get the recognition he deserves. And for anchor Abel Garcia, it was the moment the Las Vegas community stepped up to help a family whose struggles he’d brought to light after devastating fires in Maui.

Find more inspirational moments from the year collected here:

For our weather team, extreme heat was the top headline of the year. In fact, Las Vegas had the hottest summer on record. (You probably remember seeing the thermometer hit 120 degrees on July 7.)

Here, Channel 13 meteorologists look back on the top weather news of 2024 and what it means as we head into a new year:

Channel 13’s 2024 Weather Wrap

It was also a huge year for politicsespecially here in swing-state Nevada. From Trump winning big to Michele Fiore facing justice — and a lot more — our senior political reporter Steve Sebelius walks you through some of the most impactful political events of 2024:

One last look back: 13 takeaways from Nevada’s 2024 political year in review