Las Vegas Business News

Business leaders: As Las Vegas grows, public education has to keep up

A graduate wears a mortarboard with a design inspired by the "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign during UNLV's Winter Commencement at the Thomas & Mack Center Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018.

With a robust Las Vegas economy and a positive outlook predicted for 2020, one would think longtime commercial real estate executive Christina Roush would be sleeping well at night.

Gun industry gathers in Vegas amid slumping sales, rising tensions

In this Jan. 19, 2016, file photo, handguns are displayed at the Smith & Wesson booth at the Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show in Las Vegas. The gun industry is gathering for its annual conference, in January 2020, amid a host of uncertainty: slumping gun sales, a public increasingly agitating for restrictions on access to firearms and a presidential campaign that threatens gun rights like perhaps no other time in modern American history.

Gun companies are gathering for their annual conference and trade show this week in Las Vegas at a pivotal moment for the industry amid slumping sales ...

Las Vegas’ evolution and incentives attract California’s Premier Displays and Exhibits

Premier Displays and Exhibits creates trade show spaces for companies to share their brand.

Ten years ago, Premier Displays and Exhibits founder and CEO Chris Bullard concedes, he wouldn’t have considered moving his company’s headquarters to Las Vegas. But he says he has been impressed with the “can-do” attitude throughout this community, a critical asset for a business owner.

People on the Move: Jan. 20, 2020

In the Notes: Robert Andy Stahl, Jennifer Shydler, Cliff Cole, Penta Building Group, Laura Gracia, Joyce Smith and more ...

Nevadans' real wages have decreased since the Great Recession

Nevadans' real wages have decreased since the Great Recession

Unemployment is low. The housing market has bounced back. But since the Great Recession devastated Nevada’s economy more than 10 years ago, one thing hasn’t changed: wages for the average Nevadan.

Slots player hits $5.5 million jackpot on Las Vegas Strip

This Twitter image shows a $5.5 million jackpot hit at Excalibur on a Wheel of Fortune machine on Jan. 12, 2020.

A slots player at the Excalibur hit a $5.5 million jackpot last weekend.

Starbucks expands presence in low-income communities

This June 26, 2019, file photo shows a Starbucks sign outside a coffee shop in downtown Pittsburgh.

Starbucks is expanding a program that tries to help low-income communities by opening coffee shops and hiring local workers.

DraftKings opens office at Town Square to 'deepen ties to Las Vegas'

A look at the Las Vegas headquarters of DraftKings, the Boston-based daily fantasy sports and gaming company. The group opened a Las Vegas office at Town Square in January 2020.

Boston-based daily fantasy sports and gaming company DraftKings is opening a Las Vegas office in Town Square ...

Las Vegas hotel denies defaming OJ Simpson in reports of his ban

An exterior view of the Cosmopolitan on the Las Vegas Strip Dec. 26, 2017.

A Las Vegas Strip hotel-casino denied that O.J. Simpson was defamed when employees banned him from the property in 2017 and a celebrity news site reported the paroled former football hero had been drunk ...

Autistic employees gain experience, life skills at Las Vegas Subway shops

Donna Curry and Darick Wallin pose at one of Curry's Subway sandwich shops, where Wallin is employed.

Through the Grant a Gift Autism Foundation Teenworks employment readiness program, Donna Curry has placed nearly 30 young adults with autism into Subway jobs or internships.

The Notes: Jan. 13, 2020

In the Notes: TSK Architects, Tim Wilson, The Firm Public Relations & Marketing, Alexandre Santo, Denis Cole, Doug Fleegle, MountainView Hospital and more ...

Realtor: Low inventory will keep Las Vegas housing market hot

Justin Miller is a broker and Realtor for the Chong Miller Group.

Justin Miller, a Navy veteran who practiced construction-defect law in Southern California and has worked in the IT/security field, has reinvented himself several times in his professional life — most recently in the Southern Nevada real estate business. He talked to us about market trends and more.

After Super Bowl, sports books preparing for XFL bets

In this Nov. 18, 2019, photo, patrons visit the sports betting area of Twin River Casino in Lincoln, R.I. Gambling regulators and sports books in several U.S. states are preparing to allow gamblers to bet on XFL games once the league's season begins in early February.

While many sports fans are picking NFL playoff teams to bet on, or marshaling their cash for the Super Bowl, yet another opportunity to wager on football is right around the corner: the XFL.

Fight over cash-paying video games hits crucial stretch

In this photo from Jan. 9, 2020, a Pennsylvania Skill brand game terminal, left, is available to play at a grocery store in Harmony, Pa. A hearing is scheduled before the state's Commonwealth Court for Jan. 15, 2020, on whether Pennsylvania law prohibits the machines as unlicensed slot machines, even if a player's success is supposedly based on skill, rather than chance.

Just across the mall lobby from the glass-door entrance to the Pennsylvania attorney general's office sits a cash-paying electronic game terminal that the office is fighting to outlaw ...

As sports betting expands, MLB executive eyes prop wagering as a natural fit

Major League Baseball lines are displayed at the first Circa sports book at the Golden Gate in downtown Las Vegas Friday, May 31, 2019.

Major League Baseball has long lagged behind other major leagues like the NFL and NBA as far as betting interest in local sports books. But baseball executives aren’t ready to ...

Canadian wins $775K jackpot at Pahrump casino

A woman, only identified as Cathy, won a $775,000 Saturday at a Pahrump casino on a $3 slot-machine wager.

A woman visiting from Canada won a $775,000 Saturday at a Pahrump casino on a ...

Jan Jones Blackhurst named to post with UNLV International Gaming Institute

Jan Jones Blackhurst was recently named chief executive in residence at the UNLV International Gaming Institute. Jones Blackhurst, who was the first woman elected mayor of Las Vegas and served two terms, has more than ...

Las Vegas housing market expected to remain sound, stable

A for sale sign stands in front of a bank-owned home in Las Vegas in 2008.

The Las Vegas housing market continues to ride a wave of stability as the median price for an existing single-family home in Southern Nevada last month was just under $313,000. That represents a 6% jump from December 2018 and a rise from about $307,000 in November of last year. The all-time high for ...

CES gadget show: Toilet paper robot and tracking the elderly

Procter & Gamble Chief Brand Officer Marc Pritchard shows off the Charmin Forever Roll and the Charmin RollBot during a Procter & Gamble news conference before CES International, Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020, in Las Vegas.

A robot that can fetch toilet paper when you're stranded on the loo and services to keep track of the elderly from afar were among the technologies showcased this week at the annual CES gadget show in Las Vegas. The annual technology conference is ...

CES gadget show: Surveillance is in — and in a big way

In this Jan. 7, 2019, file photo, the new Door View Cam is on display at the Ring booth before CES International in Las Vegas.

From the face scanner that will check in some attendees to the cameras-everywhere array of digital products, the CES gadget show is all-in on surveillance technology — whether it ...