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  Las Vegas Strip drives statewide gaming win to $1.39 billion with historic May growth

  The Las Vegas Strip posted an $807.9 million gaming win in May, the eighth-highest monthly total in the corridor’s history, and a 13.19% increase over May 2025 …

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• Theme park veteran takes the wheel at Area15 to capture growing local and family market

  Bonnie Weber traded roller coasters for something altogether stranger: a Las Vegas venue where the art talks back, the grocery store isn’t real and the entire point is to lose yourself.

• New Applebees opens Monday in Henderson

  The 5,500-square-foot location, which previously housed a Marie Callender’s Restaurant & Bakery, includes open dining areas with multiple seating configurations and an updated bar area …

• Funding boost helps online retail middleman expand its Las Vegas footprint

  Neato functions within a unique business model it has dubbed “2P.” Instead of first-party sales, which would be a brand selling to a retailer, or third-party sales — a brand selling on a retail platform — Neato acts as a middleman with brands to sell ...

• Nevada gaming abstract shows Las Vegas Strip revenue remains strong, but high expenses are swallowing profits

  Las Vegas Strip casino profits plunged 81.2% in fiscal year 2025 — a far steeper drop than most other Nevada gaming markets — as heavy interest expense consumed much of the corridor’s revenue and left it with far less profit than its top-line numbers would suggest.

• Rosen links erratic DC policies and childcare shortages to the struggle of Nevada businesses

  At a Senate hearing Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., framed those twin pressures — a tourism slowdown and rising childcare costs — as interconnected challenges hitting the state’s economic backbone.

• Report: Nevada casino revenue stays steady while bottom line profits take hit

  The 305 Nevada casinos generating at least $1 million in gaming revenue posted combined net income of $1.7 billion in fiscal 2025, down 34.8% from fiscal 2024, the report showed.

• Los líderes empresariales de Las Vegas se centran en cinco sectores clave para reducir la dependencia de la ciudad del turismo

  La Alianza Económica Global de Las Vegas ha puesto en marcha un plan estratégico de tres años que los dirigentes de la organización describen como una "estrategia de alineación regional" con las partes interesadas y otros socios para diversificar la economía local.

• Las Vegas business leaders target five industries to break the city’s reliance on tourism

  The Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance has launched a three-year strategic plan that organizational leadership characterizes as a “regional alignment strategy” with stakeholders ...

• Historic Nevada families partner to pull Primm back from the brink

  Two Nevada families — one whose name is on the town, another that built an empire serving the state’s travelers — have joined forces to pull Primm back from the brink.

• Frontier Airlines adding nonstop flights from Las Vegas to Oakland, Boise

  Frontier Airlines is launching two new nonstop routes from Harry Reid International Airport this summer, the budget airline announced today in a news release.

• Las Vegas home prices hit record high in May

  The median price of a single-family home sold in the Las Vegas area in May was a record $490,000, according to a report released this morning by Las Vegas Realtors.

• La máquina tragamonedas ‘Wheel of Fortune’ sigue evolucionando tras 30 años

  Jean Venneman recuerda estar en la sala de juegos del Mirage viendo cómo unos desconocidos se convertían en los primeros en probar la última innovación de la desarrolladora de juegos IGT en aquel momento: las tragamonedas "Wheel of Fortune."

• Innovative ‘Wheel of Fortune’ slot machine continues to evolve after 30 years

  Jean Venneman remembers being on the casino floor at the Mirage watching strangers be among the first to play gaming developer IGT’s latest innovation at the time: the Wheel of Fortune slots.

• People on the Move: June 8, 2026

  In the Notes: StartUpNV, Spread the Word Nevada, Cirrus Aviation Services, Nevada State University and more ...

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