A District of Columbia Circuit Court judge quoted Sam “Ace” Rothstein, Robert De Niro’s character in “Casino,” in an opinion released Tuesday that found security technicians at Bellagio and the Mirage cannot be represented by the International Union of Operating Engineers Local (IUOE) 501.
“Just the right amount of wrong” is still the Cosmopolitan’s catchy slogan after almost seven years of operation on the Las Vegas Strip. After almost three years with ...
The Hard Rock Hotel and Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas say customers who booked rooms from August 2016 to March 2017 may have had credit card information stolen because of ...
You can expect more this Fourth of July — more tourists, more traffic and more heat. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority expects 323,000 visitors to come to Las Vegas, that’s just about ...
Nevada recorded another positive month for gaming, according to the state Gaming Control Board, which today released May’s revenue numbers for large casinos. The board, which tracks ...
Nevada gaming lawyers, lobbyists and handicappers applauded the Supreme Court’s decision today to hear a case against a law preventing legalizing sports gambling in New Jersey ...
It’s a 20-year-old question that investors have spent billions trying to answer: What, if anything, can get built on the site of the New Frontier? Experts speculate ...
It was Station Casinos’ flagship property when it opened in 1997, a resort that easily could have been built on the Strip instead of in suburban Henderson. Sunset Station, now ...
Bettors in Nevada can now place pari-mutuel style bets on events like e-sports tournaments, the World Series of Poker and the NBA draft after the Nevada Gaming Commission today unanimously approved ...
While owners of other gaming companies are building additions to their properties or buying existing resorts, Stevens is preparing to tear down older venues and construct a new resort in their place. The Las Vegas Sun interviewed Stevens last week to talk about ...
MGM Grand is set to break ground Tuesday on an expansion to its convention center that will add 250,000 square feet, giving it more than 850,000 square feet of meeting and convention space. ...
The bulk of Nevada’s economy rests on one unglamorous, taken-for-granted object. We’re talking about chairs — the kind seen in front of almost every one of the 166,855 slot and video poker machines in Nevada. Players dropped nearly $2 billion into casino coffers while ...
The financing — $900 million worth of bonds — and a plan to spend almost $1.5 billion to expand and renovate the Las Vegas Convention Center were approved Tuesday at ...
A trend toward consolidation on the Las Vegas Strip, with fewer companies owning more casinos, appears to aptly describe the locals market after Monday’s announcement that Golden Entertainment is buying American Casino Entertainment Properties. The sale of American — which owns the Stratosphere, Arizona Charlie’s Decatur, Arizona Charlie’s Boulder and the Aquarius Casino in Laughlin — to Golden is expected to be completed by the end of the year, pending ...
Golden Entertainment, the company that owns PT’s Pub, a slot route company and casinos in Pahrump and Maryland, announced today it is buying American Casino and ...
Viral videos spotlight a practice that’s uncommon but not unusual
Monday, June 12, 2017
Recently, social media has been buzzing with dramatic videos of airline employees battling customers and security removing passengers from airplanes. One viral video showed Chicago aviation police ...
Another Las Vegas landmark will disappear June 12 when downtown casino owner Derek Stevens dismantles the iconic neon sign Vegas Vickie to make way for a new Fremont Street resort. The kicking neon cowgirl is currently perched above the the closed strip club Girls of Glitter Gulch. It will be dismantled so ...
Students will learn fabrication and engineering skills to build and repair drones, as well as programming skills to work on the software that controls the devices ...
President Donald Trump announced Monday he is nominating banking executive and Las Vegan Joseph Otting to be the next comptroller of the currency, a position that requires confirmation by the Senate. ...
Intense speculation has surrounded SLS, the Strip resort purchased last week by Alex Meruelo and Meruelo Group, since it opened in 2014. To get a feel for what might happen, the Las Vegas Sun spoke to several ...
Nevada’s gaming revenue increased by 1.19 percent to $886,528,810 in April, compared to a win of $876,135,199 for the same month in 2016, the Nevada ...
You would think it would be a sure-fire hit in Las Vegas: a slot machine with a Frank Sinatra theme. It was unveiled in 2001 when then-Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman ...
SLS Las Vegas announced Tuesday it had agreed to be purchased by Alex Meruelo and Meruelo Group, the owners of the Grand Sierra Resort Hotel & Casino in Reno. Neither company would reveal the purchase price but in a press release announcing the sale said they expect the sale to be ...
Las Vegan Jon Weiss: "I want to scream from the top of my lungs how important this art is to America"
Saturday, May 20, 2017
The final show of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is Sunday. Las Vegan Jon Weiss spent 25 years working for the circus and is understandably sad to see it leave. "Imagine Major League Baseball going away,” he said. “Something that’s been ...
As it promised last year, the Cosmopolitan has begun charging for parking. Guests of the Strip resort and others who wish to valet or use the self-parking garage will have to ...
Revenue and tax earnings are up for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, the agency tasked with marketing Las Vegas as a destination, largely because of the recent success of casinos in Southern Nevada. ...
Michael Shackleford, a gambling aficionado and a mathematician, offers five tips to win at the blackjack table. As the owner of the The Wizard of Odds website, the former actuary and adjunct professor of casino math at the UNLV has spent countless hours calculating ...
Economic growth, renovation and redevelopment were the watchwords in the first-quarter earnings call for Red Rock Resorts, which owns and operates locals giant Stations Casinos.
Less than a year after selling the UFC, the Fertitta brothers officially launched their latest business, Fertitta Capital, employing some of the same people with whom they worked in the mixed martial arts company. Monday was the official launch for Fertitta Capital, an investment company that will be led by CEO Nakisa Bidarian. Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta will be throwing in ...
With the end of Caesars’ bankruptcy in sight, questions during the conference call to review first-quarter earnings turned to investments the company is making in ...
During a conference call with investors Wednesday to discuss 2017’s first-quarter earnings, Las Vegas Sands Corp. Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson said his ...
Millions of Las Vegas visitors, hotel marketing experts say, can be categorized into four buckets: wholesale customers, group customers, free independent travelers and ...
Recent success of the Wynn Resorts’ Macau properties grabbed the lion’s share of attention from analysts on a conference call Tuesday to discuss 2017 first-quarter earnings at Wynn Resorts. ...
Using the wrong Social Security number in a casino can cost you millions of dollars and land you in jail as one professional sports bettor is finding out ...
Las Vegas will be getting its second e-sports arena soon, in the space once occupied by the now-closed LAX nightclub at Luxor, according to an announcement Tuesday from Allied Esports, the company developing the facility.
You can’t say the new $59 million, 93,500-square-foot building under construction at UNLV’s William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration signals a coming of age for the program if only because ...
Less than a week after some of the first skill-based gaming machines debuted in Nevada at Planet Hollywood, very preliminary returns look good, says the CEO of Gamblit Gaming, the company that built them. The games, Cannonbeard’s Treasure and Gamblit Poker, are the first fully skill-based casino games to go live in Nevada. They began operating at the Caesars property on March 30 as part of a field trial, made possible by ...
MGM Resorts International is increasing its parking fees less than a year since it was the first major Strip resort company to break the long-standing Las Vegas tradition of ...
With four acres of land a short walk from Las Vegas Boulevard, President Donald Trump and his business partner Phil Ruffin have an opportunity to build a casino near one of the busiest parts of the Strip. And, according to a recent Forbes article, that’s ...
Interactive skill-based gambling is making its Las Vegas debut today at Planet Hollywood, where Gamblit Gaming will be conducting field trials of two of their games, Cannonbeard’s Treasure and Gamblit Poker. The games run on table gaming consoles, instead of the traditional vertical cabinets that house slot and video poker games. Players sit around a flat table that features a touch video screen. Players interact with the game in ...
February’s gaming numbers for nonrestricted casinos — those with table games and 15 or more slots — from the Nevada Gaming Control Board show a statewide gaming win of $945.6 million, a 4.48 percent drop compared to ...
For more than four hours Saturday, one of the busiest sections of the Las Vegas Strip was shut down when a man shot two people, killing one, and barricaded himself on a double-decker bus ...
Acts of terror may be happening more frequently in tourism hot spots around the world, but visitors to Las Vegas are coming to one of the safest destinations in ...
Palace Station will soon be ditching its train motif as a multimillion-dollar renovation project on the 41-year-old casino continues. The remodeling began last fall, and work on the parking lot and landscaping has ...
If March Madness seems a little madder than usual this year, you’re not hallucinating. Las Vegas sports betting pros say this year’s college hoops tourney could be one of the busiest ever for Las Vegas. ...
It’s been almost four months since Las Vegas’ first expressly Asian casino opened its doors, with a marketing strategy as unique as the glass dragon hanging from ...
In a rare agreement, signed Monday, Station Casinos has agreed to stop fighting the attempt by Culinary Workers Union Local 226 to unionize Palace Station. The agreement was reached after federal officials looked into allegations that Station had violated ...
A record number of tourists visited Southern Nevada last year and spent a record amount of money, according to a report that economic analyst Jeremy Aguero presented today to the board of the Las Vegas ...