Who is Drew?
 
Who is Drew?

Developer Steve Witkoff has renamed the former Fontainebleau: The Drew Las Vegas. We can’t tell you who Drew is — yet. But here’s what we know about the project: • 4,000 rooms • Will debut the Edition brand in Las Vegas and feature the Strip’s first JW Marriott • 500,000 square feet of convention and meeting space • The 60-plus story tower, mothballed since the recession, is scheduled to open in late 2020 • Purchase price: $600 million • Former Cosmopolitan CEO John Unwin will oversee The Drew’s launch and operations

Gordon Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen opens on Las Vegas Strip
 
Gordon Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen opens on Las Vegas Strip

Hell’s Kitchen has opened on the Las Vegas Strip! Gordon Ramsay’s new restaurant boasts many nods to the hit television show, with pitchforks on the chairs, napkins and ceiling. The menu mirrors the show as well, with signature beef wellington, crispy skin salmon and sticky toffee pudding. Drinks include a bubbling “Chef’s Stew” gin cocktail and a “Smoke on the Blvd” smoked whiskey cocktail. Hell’s Kitchen is open for lunch and dinner.

1 October Preliminary Report Crime Scene Photos
 
1 October Preliminary Report Crime Scene Photos

Crime scene photos contained in the preliminary report on the Oct. 1, 2017, shooting in Las Vegas show the hotel room used by gunman Stephen Paddock at Mandalay Bay on the Strip.

T-Mobile opens 2-story store on Las Vegas Strip
 
T-Mobile opens 2-story store on Las Vegas Strip

T-Mobile’s new, nightclub-themed Las Vegas Strip store opened Thursday, Jan. 4, 2018. Visitors can access 25 portable phone chargers, a photo booth and a concierge desk for buying tickets to T-Mobile Arena. Upstairs is a virtual reality headset and a non-alcoholic drink bar with sodas and juice shots. The store employs 79 people and is 9,000 square feet. This is the company’s fifth signature-style store after New York, Chicago, Miami and Santa Monica.

Revelers ring in 2018 in Las Vegas
 
Revelers ring in 2018 in Las Vegas

People across the globe gather on the Las Vegas Strip and Fremont Street to ring in 2018. A crowd of 330,000 visitors was expected to fill the Strip and Fremont Street downtown. “We figured this was probably the safest place anywhere in the world,” said Lynn Cherry. “Being able to drink, walk around and have fun — it’s kind of like Disney for us,” said Vincent Martin.

Tight security greets New Year’s revelers on Las Vegas Strip
 
Tight security greets New Year’s revelers on Las Vegas Strip

Heavy doses of anxiety, security and elation greeted the imminent arrival of 2018 in Las Vegas. A crowd of 330,000 visitors was expected to fill the Strip and Fremont Street downtown, as a record contingent of law enforcement officers kept the peace. This year’s massive outdoor party unfolded in the shadow of the Oct. 1 mass shooting that left 58 people dead. Several people said they came to celebrate in spite of what happened three months ago Monday.

Best Of Las Vegas New Year’s 2017
 
Best Of Las Vegas New Year’s 2017

People around the world and locals gather around the Las Vegas Strip and Fremont Street to celebrate New Year’s Eve.

Las Vegas New Year’s Eve 2017
 
Las Vegas New Year’s Eve 2017

People across Las Vegas celebrate the upcoming New Year on the Las Vegas Strip and Fremont Street.

Roads close to allow for Las Vegas New Year’s revelry
 
Roads close to allow for Las Vegas New Year’s revelry

A reminder for those heading out to New Year’s Eve parties tonight: The Strip and the roads leading to have closed. On-ramps and off-ramps to Interstate 15 just west of the Strip were also closed at 5 p.m. at Spring Mountain Road, Flamingo Road and Tropicana Avenue. Police will start clearing out vehicle traffic along the Strip at 6:15 p.m.

Tips to stay safe while celebrating New Year’s Eve
 
Tips to stay safe while celebrating New Year’s Eve

The Rape Crisis Center is reminding holiday revelers to stay safe and aware as they head to New Year’s Eve celebrations across the valley. As part of its “Party Smart” campaign, the center is reminding people planning to go out to arrive together, stay together and leave together. When the party ends, make sure you leave with everyone who came with you, the center said. Don’t let intoxicated friends leave with strangers and use licensed and labeled transportation services to get home.

‘Terroristic threat’ at Star Wars movie
 
‘Terroristic threat’ at Star Wars movie

A “terroristic threat” led to an arrest after a showing of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” on December 15 at AMC Town Square 18 on the southern end of the Las Vegas Strip.

Las Vegas New Year’s celebration will be ‘America’s Party’
 
Las Vegas New Year’s celebration will be ‘America’s Party’

What has 12 bands, more than 80,000 firework devices and some 330,000 guests from all over the world? “America’s Party” 2018. Las Vegas’ recurring New Year’s Eve bash is back and better than ever, officials say. Specifics for the event, which occurs on the Strip and in Downtown Las Vegas, were unveiled Thursday at Fashion Show mall. For the 11th year in a row Fireworks By Grucci is orchestrating the launching of fireworks across seven hotel-casino rooftops stretching from the Stratosphere to the MGM Grand. Beginning at midnight, pyrotechnics will light up the Las Vegas skyline for eight minutes. The explosions will be choreographed to songs by artists including Eric Clapton, Judas Priest and Bruce Springsteen.

Fontainebleau’s future
 
Fontainebleau’s future

It’s been more than three months since the Fontainebleau sold for $600 million. But there’s still no word from the buyers on what they’ll do with the mothballed tower on the Las Vegas Strip. Records show they’re calling their effort “Project Blue” and that a contractor was hired to finish construction. But other details remain unknown. (Eli Segall/Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Nevada Supreme Court decision to affect litigation against Mandalay Bay
 
Nevada Supreme Court decision to affect litigation against Mandalay Bay

Craig Drummond, an attorney at Drummond Law Firm in Las Vegas, discusses the Nevada Supreme Court decision on Humphries v. New York-New York Hotel & Casino and the impact it will have on litigation against Mandalay Bay on Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017. (Joel Angel Juarez/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @jajuarezphoto

Lawyer explains 5 types of victims from Las Vegas shooting
 
Lawyer explains 5 types of victims from Las Vegas shooting

Lawyer Robert Eglet explains the 5 types of victims that could receive compensation as a result of the Oct. 1 mass shooting in Las Vegas. Elaine Wilson/Las Vegas Review-Journal

Last Las Vegas shooting patient in local hospitals discharged
 
Last Las Vegas shooting patient in local hospitals discharged

The last patient hospitalized locally as a result of the Oct. 1 Strip shooting has been discharged. The patient, who was not identified, was discharged Saturday, almost six weeks after the attack, from St. Rose Dominican Hospital.

Las Vegas truck rental companies on lookout for terrorism after attacks
 
Las Vegas truck rental companies on lookout for terrorism after attacks

Metro police, national security agencies and truck rental headquarters had been educating Las Vegas employees about suspicious customer behavior. “We have been doing training dating back to November 2016 — after the Paris and Nice attacks — as part of our ‘See Something, Say Something campaign,’” said Las Vegas Metro Police spokesman Jay Rivera. Rivera said the LVMPD has visited many rental companies as well as other transportation companies, including taxis, Uber and Lyft. He did not say how many local transport companies Metro has visited to date.

Crews installing steel posts along Las Vegas Strip sidewalks
 
Crews installing steel posts along Las Vegas Strip sidewalks

Installation of the roughly 4-foot posts, called bollards, began early Monday on the Strip near the Hawaiian Marketplace south of Planet Hollywood. They are meant to protect pedestrians walking on the Strip from vehicle-ramming attacks and traffic accidents, Clark County spokesman Dan Kulin said. “It’s good to see those go up because there’s so much sidewalk here that isn’t protected,” said Maritza Cabrera. “It’s not just keeping cars off the sidewalk, it’s keeping people out of the street.”

Vendors have goods, equipment at shooting scene
 
Vendors have goods, equipment at shooting scene

A court order is preventing vendors from retrieving their equipment and items they were selling at the Route 91 Harvest festival, the site of the shooting on Oct. 1.

Tropicana saw bookings fall 35 percent after Las Vegas shooting
 
Tropicana saw bookings fall 35 percent after Las Vegas shooting

The operator of the hotel closest to the Route 91 Harvest Festival grounds not operated by MGM Resorts International said the Tropicana Las Vegas experienced a 35 percent cancellation rate on bookings in the days immediately following the Oct. 1 mass shooting. But Jay Snowden, president and chief operating officer of Penn National Gaming, said there were no group cancellations and that the downturn in bookings appears to be a short-term situation that is gradually going away. Penn was the first gaming company to publicly quantify the extent of cancellations in relation to the shooting. MGM Resorts reports quarterly earnings on Nov. 8.

Metro officer shot responding to Las Vegas Strip shooting
 
Metro officer shot responding to Las Vegas Strip shooting

Las Vegas Metro officer Brady Cook was shot while responding to the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting on the Strip on his second day of field training. (Elizabeth Brumley Las Vegas Review-Journal)

Strip goes dark
 
Strip goes dark

At 10:05 p.m., the Las Vegas Strip went dark for 11 minutes in honor of the victims of the Las Vegas shooting on October 1.

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