Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority helps drive visitation with special events in Mesquite on Nevada’s Arizona border along Interstate 15.
Richard N. Velotta
Assistant Business Editor
Email: rvelotta@reviewjournal.com
Phone: (702) 477-3893
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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 mighty Colorado River provides a playground for Laughlin while Mesquite uses the Virgin River to maintain some of the state’s best golf courses.
A gambler who expected a $40,200 payout for picking the winner of the first round of a golf tournament is fighting to be paid by the William Hill Sportsbook.
The Nevada Gaming Control Board alleges that its enforcement agents were denied access at Reno’s Grand Sierra Resort and as a result could be fined $250,000.
Because baccarat players will sometime wager six-figure sums per hand, the game has a reputation for being the most volatile one in the casino.
The California resident cultivated clients in a Las Vegas casino and now faces up to 15 years in prison.
Greg Anderson has been with Allegiant Air for 15 years, but the hometown native’s first month as CEO gave him the opportunity to determine what’s next for the company.
Because the convenient Washington D.C. airport has a special flight restriction, only a limited number of trips are allowed there. Now, Southwest is getting one of them.
A tribal casino is using an app tied to its surveillance camera system that uses artificial intelligence to detect patrons carrying firearms.
Within a few years, the Las Vegas Sphere won’t be the only Sphere in the world.
In other gaming news, see the results of a poll commissioned by slot YouTuber Brian Christopher and the American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation on casino patrons views on smoking in casinos.
It started as “Uber for jets,” but Aero has evolved into a semi-private luxury flying experience on sleek black twin-engine jets.
An arrest warrant has been reissued for a Massachusetts millionaire who failed to appear in court to answer charges he wrote two bad checks to Bellagio totalling $1.5 million.
American Gaming Association President and CEO Bill Miller cited several Las Vegas examples as imperative in keeping gaming growth on track in the G2E opening address.
In the darkened Allegiant Operations Control Center in Las Vegas, airline’s workers prepare to minimize damage from Hurricane Milton.