The nearly yearlong legal fight over the failed attempt to convert entertainer Wayne Newton’s estate into a theme park and museum appears to have been settled.
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Before UNLV ditched billionaire Ed Roski’s Majestic Realty as its private partner for a proposed stadium, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas received an offer from a powerful hotel-casino company to help build the 60,000-seat venue, the Las Vegas Review-Journal learned Thursday.
Union members of Southwest Airlines ground crews handed out leaflets at McCarran International Airport on Thursday to protest the company’s proposals to outsource some jobs.
UNLV made a radical move Wednesday in its bid to build a 60,000-seat domed stadium by dumping its deep-pocket private partner, Majestic Realty.
Wynn Resorts Ltd. on Wednesday unveiled plans for Wynn Everett, a
roughly $1.5 billion resort it hopes to build next to the Mystic River in Massachusetts, as the Las Vegas-based gaming company looks to capture the sole Boston-area casino license.
Most of the necessary infrastructure is in place for Wet ’n’ Wild water park to open Memorial Day weekend in the southwest Las Vegas Valley, the park’s general manager said Wednesday.
Spending by international travelers to the U.S. was up for January.
While Las Vegas gasoline prices have dropped slightly in the past month and pumps nationwide reflect a 22-cents-per-gallon drop over this time last year, crude oil climbed to almost $95 a barrel Monday, fueled mainly by financial tensions in Cyprus.
CityCenter’s unfinished Harmon Hotel will once again come alive, perhaps this week, to the sound of construction workers armed with hammers and chisels chipping away structural concrete as legal teams gather evidence for an upcoming trial.
He’s the guy in the black cargo pants, neon green shirt and the Cannondale mountain bike as his vehicle and there’s a chance that Lino Haynes will be the first employee who greets you at Red Rock Resort in Summerlin.
Inside the March Madness Man Cave known as Lagasse’s Stadium sports bar on the Strip sits Jen Wilfong, a 48-year-old Indiana Hoosier hoops woman who honed her laser-perfect outside shot on five basketball rims mounted by her daddy on the family farm in Indiana.
Tim Husted has spent his entire adult life making a yearly March Madness pilgrimage from the Midwest to Las Vegas to park himself in front of a wall of TV screens for 14 hours on the first full day of NCAA basketball tournament games.
WASHINGTON — A travel industry-endorsed plan to make it easier for foreign tourists to obtain visas to visit the United States was reintroduced Thursday in Congress.
Lake Mead’s only fishing pier could be out of commission until Memorial Day weekend because of recent vandalism to the structure.
Two high-profile incidents and the fast-approaching summer months led state gaming regulators and Las Vegas police to issue a stern warning Thursday to hotel-casino operators: Keep a close watch on your nightclubs and pool parties or face disciplinary action for any illegal activity.