At least two Las Vegas gaming giants — MGM Resorts International and Caesars Entertainment — are currently shopping Strip resorts. The big question is who’s going to end up buying them.
Colton Lochhead
Carson City bureau chief
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Colton Lochhead covers pot and politics for the Review-Journal, where he started as an intern covering crime and breaking news in 2012. Raised in Las Vegas, the life-long desert rat graduated from Bonanza High School before earning his journalism degree from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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The National Labor Relations Board says that Station Casinos is hindering an ongoing unfair labor practice case and is asking a federal court to step in.
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