Sharon Delaney McCloud, an Emmy Award-winning broadcaster, delivered the first keynote address at this week’s Global Gaming Expo at the Sands Expo Convention Center and The Venetian. The focus was women representation on corporate boards.
Richard N. Velotta
Richard N. “Rick” Velotta has covered business, the gaming industry, tourism, transportation and aviation in Las Vegas for 25 years. A former reporter and editor with the Las Vegas Sun, the Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner, the Arizona Daily Sun in Flagstaff and the Aurora (Colo.) Sun, Velotta is a graduate of Northern Arizona University where he won the school’s top journalism honor. He became the Review-Journal's assistant business editor in September 2018.
The American Gaming Association’s 18th annual Global Gaming Expo opens Monday at the Sands Expo Convention Center and the Venetian and runs through Thursday.
The NFL’s premiere game generally occurs in the first week of February, right around one of the sweet spots for some major conventions and trade shows.
Longtime MGM Resorts International executive Bobby Baldwin, the namesake of the high-stakes poker room at Bellagio, will leave the company later this year, the company announced Thursday.
The Federal Trade Commission gave Penn National Gaming’s $2.8 billion acquisition of Las Vegas-based Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. its approval Monday. On Tuesday, the Nevada Gaming Commission unanimously recommended approval of the deal.
Few comments were received in the state Gaming Control Board’s harassment prevention regulation hearing.
Las Vegas-based Golden Entertainment Inc. has expanded its relationship with sportsbook operator William Hill to allow it to operate four more casinos in Nevada.
Kevin O’Leary, the brutally honest “Mr. Wonderful” from “Shark Tank,” will take his hard-nosed investment evaluation style to the trade show in a first-of-its-kind “Innovation Incubator” competition among entrepreneurs on the final day of the nation’s largest gaming industry event.
Lois, a golden retriever that is one of the local comfort dogs trained to interact with people in crisis, was at work Monday at Mandalay Bay.
For months, representatives of the gaming industry have marveled at how sports leagues, particularly the National Basketball Association, have made such great strides toward accepting sports wagering as mainstream entertainment.
Stadium builders reached a critical stage in the construction of Las Vegas’ 65,000-seat, $1.8 billion indoor football stadium this week as they took the first step toward going vertical.
Two major entertainment brands began work Thursday on changing the face of live performance — and the Las Vegas skyline — with a ceremonial groundbreaking for the 18,000-seat MSG Sphere at The Venetian.
Nevada gaming win tumbled for the second straight month as the Gaming Control Board reported a 7.7 percent decline, with Clark County and the Las Vegas Strip off by double-digit percentages.
An adjudicatory hearing will be conducted by the Massachusetts Gaming Commission to determine whether Wynn Resorts Ltd. should be penalized in connection with the investigation of sexual harassment allegations against its founder and former CEO, Steve Wynn.
The chairman of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission has resigned in the wake of allegations that he would be biased in decisions concerning the investigation of Steve Wynn and Wynn Resorts Ltd.