Las Vegas Business News

Q+A: WSOP.com marks four years of online poker

A stack of $50,000 tournament chips await a poker player before the start of the 2017 World of Series of Poker Main Event at the Rio Convention Center on Saturday, July 8, 2017.

One of only two remaining online poker providers in Nevada, WSOP.com is celebrating its fourth anniversary today. The company began operating on Sept. 19, 2013, several months after the Nevada Legislature passed Assembly Bill 114 and Gov. Sandoval signed it into law ...

UNLV technology park expects to construct third building soon

A rendering shows plans for a new building at the Harry Reid UNLV Research & Technology Park.

The UNLV Harry Reid Research & Technology Park in the southwest valley appears ready to begin construction on a new building. Representatives of the ...

MGM announces plans for a new casino in Connecticut

This image provided by MGM Resorts International shows an architectural rendering of a casino proposed for Bridgeport, Conn., announced on Monday, Sept. 18, 2017, by MGM Resorts International and The RCI Group.

MGM Resorts International revealed plans on Monday for a $675 million waterfront casino in Connecticut's largest city, the latest salvo in a competition with two Native American tribes that run two of the world's largest casinos in the southeastern part of the state. MGM is already building ...

Controversial GGG-Canelo decision prompts Las Vegas refunds

WBC/WBA/IBF middleweight champion Grennady Golovkin, left, of Kazakhstan and Canelo Alvarez of Mexico celebrate after a 12-round title fight at T-Mobile Saturday Saturday, Sept. 16, 2017.

Large bets for as much as $500,000 showed up on Gennady Golovkin at Las Vegas sportsbooks in the final hours before Saturday's title fight against Canelo Alvarez. They ...

Anti-fracking suit seeks to block oil drilling on BLM land

Environmentalists have filed an anti-fracking lawsuit in Nevada to block an effort to expand oil and gas drilling on federal land. Two national conservation groups say the Bureau of Land Management is ...

The List: Nonprofit foundations, Sept. 17, 2017

Find out about nonprofit foundations. This week, we rank them by assets reported to the Internal Revenue Service as of Aug. 1 ...

The Data: Sept. 17-23

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The Notes: Sept. 17-23

In the Notes: Michael Bruner, Whitney White, Michael Vallante, Daniel LeCavalier, Larry Ruvo, Dr. Charles “Chip” Martin, Edward Farrell and more ...

The answer may be found within the question

Problem-solving and creativity are the same. When we are solving problems, we evaluate our circumstance, identify opportunities, visualize scenarios and judge the results before we act.

Diners get what they want when they want it

Metro Diner owners Tony Grappo, left, and Tony Alonge pose for a photo on location, Thursday, July 13, 2017.

Metro Diner, which was featured on the Food Network’s “Diners, Drive-ins and Dives,” offers new takes on classic dishes, such as fried chicken and waffles with homemade strawberry butter and Charleston shrimp and grits. Longtime Las Vegas restaurateur ...

Sidetracks that lead forward: Business professionals say distractions in the workplace, managed correctly, can be beneficial

Sidetracks that lead forward: Business professionals say distractions in the workplace, managed correctly, can be beneficial

A recent University of California, Irvine study showed it took up to 23 minutes to recover from a distraction — small wonder then that work environments full of social-media busybodies and shiny objects can sap productivity. On the other hand, employers with some of the most celebrated work environments and cultures, such as Zappos and Google, offer diversions and luxe spaces to let employees get away from their desks. They argue that productivity increases if the brain is given breaks throughout the day.

Dentist’s advice: Treat patients like family

Dr. Steven DeLisle is passionate about treating patients with special needs, and created the Saving Smiles scholarship to help such patients who are under-resourced. (Christopher DeVargas/staff)

The owner of Children’s Dentistry talks about his passion for helping patients with special needs, the importance of good staff morale in the workplace and the possibility that he would one day run for public office.

Viva Las Vegas as celebs pack Sin City for Mexican holiday

An advertisement for Mexican entertainer Franco Escamilla is reflected in a window along the Las Vegas Strip, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017. Often mistaken for Cinco de Mayo, Mexican Independence Day will be celebrated this weekend, and as an entertainment oasis near Mexico, Las Vegas will roll out the red, white and green carpet to celebrate "El Grito."

Las Vegas never needs an excuse to party, and as an entertainment oasis a short trip from Mexico, the city will roll out the red, white and green carpet starting Friday to celebrate Mexican Independence Day. A premier boxing match, a bell-ringing ceremony and more than a dozen performances by Latin megastars, including ...

Budding apparel company stands out at Las Vegas entrepreneur competition

Medin Gebrezgier and Jonathan and Cesar Santos of Revive Brand Co. celebrate their victory at the Get Started competition designed for entrepreneurs and small-business owners at the Palms on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017.

In the time since the company’s inception, Medin Gebrezgier, and brothers Jonathan and Cesar Santos, have developed their craft, appeared on national television, and are making a push to expand the company and share their positive mantra of ...

Nevada developing global renown for drone research

Magic Sky displays a drone during the InterDrone Conference at the Rio on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017.

After the Federal Aviation Administration designated Nevada one of six unmanned aircraft (UAS) research sites in 2013, the state has been capitalizing on the rare opportunity and cultivating an international reputation in the drone industry. ...

Trade case opponents warn that a solar cell tariff would raise costs

SolarWorld Americas Inc. supplied 14.2 megawatts DC of high-performance solar panels for a project near Fernley. A trade commission is expected to decide next week whether to proceed with a case that could lead to tariffs on solar cells.

A trade commission is expected to decide next week whether to proceed with a case that could lead to tariffs on solar cells. The tariffs would make solar panels more expensive and ...

Power lines to connect Wyoming wind energy to Las Vegas

Construction on transmission lines to connect energy generated from wind farms in southern Wyoming to southwestern states is planned to begin in 2019. Wyoming Tribune Eagle reported today that the TransWest Express Transmission Project is ...

Golden Knights chief: Team already scoring economic goals off the ice

Vegas Golden Knights President Kerry Bubolz, pictured in June, said this week at the Nevada Economic Development Conference that the team has 170 full-time employees, 70 percent of whom relocated to the Las Vegas Valley.

Before their first face-off, the Vegas Golden Knights are having an economic impact as Southern Nevada’s first major league team. ...

What’s behind those massive building wraps on the Las Vegas Strip

A 200-foot-tall-by-45-foot wrap on MGM Grand promotes the long-anticipated middleweight championship fight on Saturday.

You don’t have to be a boxing fan in Las Vegas to know when one major bout is done and another is on its way. If you’re near the Strip, just look up at the colossal murals affixed to the MGM Grand’s towers. Contractors working for Screaming Images recently took down the mural announcing the Mayweather/McGregor fight ...

Nevada unemployment rate in August bounces up to 4.9 percent

State officials say growth in the workforce may be behind a slight increase in the Nevada statewide jobless rate in August, to 4.9 percent. The Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation said ...