Las Vegas Business News

The List: Largest private employers, March 20, 2016

Find out about manufacturers. This week, we rank them by number of employees as of Jan. 1.

For light rail to work, we must work together

On March 7 and 8, RTC officials continued this exploratory process by partnering with Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck to host nearly 50 community leaders and decision-makers in Denver. The Nevada delegation took a closer look at how Denver’s light rail and mass transit systems were conceived, funded and built.

A little slice of France in Las Vegas

Jonathan Pluvinet owns Rosallie Le French Café. He laid the brick counter himself, and the lantern to his left was once his grandfather’s.

Jonathan Pluvinet, who came to Nevada for college, has carved out a slice of his native France in Las Vegas. He named his café after the one his parents run and is dedicated to providing an authentic French experience for his customers.

New Las Vegas chamber is planning for more weddings

New Las Vegas chamber is planning for more weddings

Industry pros join forces to try to restore Las Vegas’ place atop the destination wish list ...

‘Simply being available’ is a mentor’s first priority

Amy Hunter, a partner at the Simmons Group, spends 12 to 16 hours a month with her mentee, in addition to informally mentoring a group of students with her husband.

A partner at the human resources firm the Simmons Group talks about her passion for mentoring young people, the shift from an employer-hiring market to an employee-focused market, and her admiration of Ellen DeGeneres.

The Data: March 20-26

All of the information your business needs: Bid opportunities, bankruptcies filed and building permits issued. To add to our data, email us at [email protected].

Sherwin-Williams buying rival Valspar for $11.3 billion

herwin-Williams, which has long claimed to "cover the Earth" with its paints, is buying rival Valspar for $11.3 billion in a move that it says will ...

People on the Move: March 20-26

In the People: Dr. Brent Devera, Teresa Praus, Eric Haralson, Dr. Girisha Kaur, Casey Eade, Gina Traficant, Jamie Malloy, Michelle Sharples, Shannon Trujillo, Bernadette Mashas, Amanda Franchi and more ...

Culinary Union leads protest at Palms to promote its cause

Supporters of Culinary Local 226 gather in front of the Palms to rally for unionization efforts there, Friday, March 18, 2016.

Hundreds of Culinary Union workers lined up on Flamingo Road in front of the Palms Friday evening to demand a “fair process” to unionizing at the resort. The smiling protesters clad in red marched, danced and shouted in unison ...

IGT grows revenue, reports $73.5 million profit in 4th quarter

An exterior view of International Game Technology headquarters at 6355 S. Buffalo Drive on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015.

Slot machine and lottery company International Game Technology reported its fourth-quarter and full-year earnings on Thursday. The company was created by the $6.4 billion merger between Gtech, an Italian lottery operator, and ...

CityCenter’s Shops at Crystals selling for $1.1 billion

Crystals at CityCenter on Wednesday, April 20, 2011.

The luxurious Crystals mall on the Las Vegas Strip is being sold to two real estate companies for about $1.1 billion, its owners announced today. CityCenter ...

New York’s Halal Guys heading to Las Vegas; Henderson to welcome bakery

The line of customers at the Halal Guys in New York City stretches down the sidewalk at 1 a.m., June 21, 2014.

The Halal Guys. It’s like the Eiffel Tower — chances are if you haven’t been there yourself, you know someone who has or you’ve seen an ungodly number of Instagram photos of it ...

Ice cream with a kick: L.V. entrepreneur hopes to break through with boozy treat

Meadows School graduate Leif Pearson is opening the valley's first spirited ice cream plant producing Momenti Spirited Ice Creams on Thursday, March 17, 2016.  He spends many hours in their lab perfecting the newest flavors and creating new ones.

A Las Vegas entrepreneur is hoping to carve a career out of ice cream infused with alcohol. A graduate of the Meadows School, Leif Pearson expects to open a plant here soon for his Momenti Spirited Ice Creams ...

For Las Vegas public schools, tax caps have created red-alert situation

Clark County Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky is shown during a Las Vegas Sun editorial board meeting in August 2014. During a school board meeting in March 2016, Skorkowsky tried to soothe concerns over a projected $20 million tax revenue shortfall tied to tax caps that were established by the Nevada Legislature in 2005. The caps were meant to protect property owners from massive tax increases during the boom years, when property values were zooming up year after year. But since the downturn, amid property values that tanked and have only recently started rising again, the caps have hindered the school district.

Property tax caps enacted by state legislators during the height of the housing boom did a good job protecting homeowners from skyrocketing tax bills. But fast-forward more than a decade, and those same caps are coming back to haunt local government — especially the Las Vegas public school system. Legislators in 2005 limited property tax increases for individual residential properties to 3 percent annually, to ...

Some casinos won’t report earnings to SEC anymore under new regulation

An exterior view of the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas on the Las Vegas Strip March 1, 2016.

Certain privately owned casinos, such as the Cosmopolitan and SLS Las Vegas, will no longer have to report their earnings publicly because of a new regulation passed today by ...

Caesars CEO gets licensed by Nevada Gaming Commission

Mark Frissora, president and CEO of Caesars Entertainment, leaves a Nevada Gaming Control Board meeting Wednesday, March 2, 2016, at Grant Sawyer State Building.

Caesars Entertainment Corp. CEO Mark Frissora was granted a license from state gaming regulators today after responding to concerns about his record at his last job and ...

MGM Resorts gets final OK for real estate reorganization

The exterior of New York-New York Hotel & Casino on Thursday, June 6, 2013 on the Las Vegas Strip.

MGM Resorts International today won final approval from state regulators for some reorganization moves related to the casino operator’s plan to create a new company that will ...

Want to buy a town? There’s one on the market in rural Southern Nevada

A trucker drives across the highway 7 miles from Cal-Nev-Ari, Nev., on March 2, 2016.

It’s dark and mostly empty in the low-slung, 1960s-era casino here, with a handful of people at the bar and just one or two others playing slots. The streets in this dusty, isolated town aren’t paved, but there’s almost nothing to drive to, anyway — no doctors offices, shopping centers or much else around here. But there’s plenty of ...

Elon Musk taking direct approach to lobbying Nevada lawmakers on solar energy

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors Inc., unveils the company’s newest products, Powerwall and Powerpack in Hawthorne, Calif., Thursday, April 30, 2015. Musk is trying to steer his electric car company's battery technology into homes and businesses as part of an elaborate plan to reshape the power grid with millions of small power plants made of solar panels on roofs and batteries in garages.

Elon Musk is lobbying Nevada lawmakers to support the development of rooftop solar energy, and he's doing it with a face-to-face approach. Musk welcomed a group of ...

MGM Resorts reorganization moves get initial OK from gaming regulators

Mandalay Bay on Las Vegas Blvd on September 30, 2015.

Nevada gaming regulators today gave MGM Resorts International initial approval for some reorganization moves associated with its plan to create a new company that will ...