Tropicana General Manager Arik Knowles, who has helped open four Las Vegas resorts, was licensed by the Nevada Gaming Commission.
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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.
While the TSA says wait times in lines are within the 30-minute standard it sets, Reid still has some of the highest wait times in the nation.
Beginning Wednesday, BetMGM will debut a feature that no other sports-betting app in Nevada provides.
Investors appear to be buying in to the company’s live entertainment lineup and its strategies involving the Sphere Experience and “Postcard from Earth.”
Former Gov. Grant Sawyer is considered the father of modern gaming, and the Control Board chairman wants a tribute to him as regulatory boards move to a new campus.
Two elevators will be added and 38 others will be modernized under a Biden administration infrastructure grant program, with work beginning next month.
After a four-year shutdown because of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, the Governor’s Conference on Tourism is returning to Las Vegas’ Rio hotel-casino in October.
Now that federal drug enforcement leaders are considering decriminalization of marijuana, it may be time for the intersection of cannabis and casinos, experts say.
Harry Reid International Airport had more flight delays of 15 minutes or more than any other major airport in the United States, the FAA says in a new report.
In a 31-page complaint, the Nevada Gaming Control Board alleged that the Strip resort allowed gamblers that ran illegal bookmaking operations to play in its casino.
The mixed-use attraction featuring 600-foot twin towers on a 10-acre lot south of Fontainebleau also will have a 439-foot amusement ride and a swimming pool local residents will be able to use.
Most flights are to and from Mexico or Canada, but there are several overseas flights as well. Here’s a list.
A report from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority’s airline development consultant showed international flight capacity will reach pre-pandemic levels by the end of the year.
At a topping-off ceremony, construction crews hoisted the last large iron beam into place at the highest point of the $600 million project.
The U.S. attorney is expected to provide a deep dive into the intricacies of these cases.