The company that owns the Tropicana and Henderson’s M Resort has seen expansion through its Barstool Sports partnership with movement into more states by football season.
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.
Board members were impressed with changes the company has made over the past two years, but it didn’t get the permanent license it sought for sports wagering in Nevada.
Resorts World Las Vegas and its Malaysia-based Genting Berhad management group were unanimously recommended for licensing by the Nevada Gaming Control Board Wednesday.
The month-over-month totals for April increased by 1,014.4 percent over 2020 when the coronavirus pandemic prevented potential visitors from going to Macao.
Around 600 construction workers are on the MSG Sphere at The Venetian construction site and the roof truss frame remains on track for a summer completion.
The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, a longtime supporter of Las Vegas-based charities and UNLV, is set to become the new owner of the Palms by the end of 2021.
Meredith Corporation announced today that it will sell its Local Media Group, including KVVU-TV in Las Vegas, to Gray Television Inc.
Respectable visitation, gaming and airport numbers, a bold prediction by MGM CEO Bill Hornbuckle and the return of CES spotlight the good news that Las Vegas is back.
Capitalizing on a partnership with the National Basketball Association Memphis Grizzlies, WynnBET is being activated at upcoming Grizzlies home games in May.
Gaming and Leisure Properties Inc., a Pennsylvania-based real-estate investment trust, has growth opportunities thanks to its relationship with Bally’s Corp.
A group of retired FBI agents has devised and patented Justice Is Equal, a polygraph tool they think police departments could use to screen out potential bad apples.
Through a partnership with Clear Channel Outdoor Americas, Resorts World Las Vegas will generate advertising revenue with ads on its massive Strip-facing video screen.
Thanks to improvements at the company’s resort property in Black Hawk, Colorado, the company that owns Atlantis in Reno posted record-breaking results.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority has begun comparing tourism indicators with 2019 numbers since they already know numbers are going to be better than 2020’s.
Operators and analysts said there was a lot of pent-up demand to get back to Las Vegas and March gaming win numbers showed they weren’t kidding.