Las Vegas Business News

Pie progress: Five new, unique products from Pizza Expo

Joe Montuori of PizzaLinos in Bayonne, N.J., competes in the World Pizza Games Freestyle Acrobatic Dough Tossing event at the International Pizza Expo on Tuesday, March 8, 2016, in the Las Vegas Convention Center.

More than 10,000 hungry participants and nearly 500 exhibitors visited the Las Vegas Convention Center on Tuesday, showcasing everything from unique pizza topping combinations to new beer kegs and cooking ovens during the annual ...

Golden Entertainment grows revenue in fourth quarter 2015 and full year

The bar area is busy during the Grand Opening of PT’s Brewing Company at 3101 N. Tenaya Way.

The Las Vegas-based gaming company whose business includes multiple Nevada casinos and the PT’s tavern chain, as well as a huge route of slot machines inside ...

Trump International faces April hearing over labor complaint

The Culinary Workers Union 226 members hold a protest at the Trump International Hotel & Tower to highlight its organizing campaign on caucus day, Tuesday, February 23, 2016.

Donald Trump’s Las Vegas hotel is the subject of a recent federal complaint alleging that the hotel broke the law by promising job opportunities to workers who ditched their support of ...

Nevada jobless rate keeps dropping: 6.2 percent in January

State officials say Nevada's unemployment rate is continuing to drop — down to 6.2 percent in January. Figures released Wednesday by the state Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation showed ...

Light rail in Vegas? Denver shows possible model for Southern Nevada to follow

A view of travelers at the W light rail line at Union Station on Tuesday, March 8, 2016, in Denver.

If Southern Nevada is going to emulate Colorado’s largest metro area by developing an ambitious light rail system, its elected officials and business community members will ...

Q+A: Las Vegas homebuilder Canarelli hasn’t let hard knocks bring him down

Larry Canarelli, president of American West Homebuilding Group.

Larry Canarelli spent his childhood in poverty, living in a tent alongside a river, in an orphanage and in shacks. But he’s long had an entrepreneurial bent and a strength for numbers. And over the course of more than 30 years, he’s built a Las Vegas homebuilding empire by ...

Pay freeze: What became of the push to raise Nevada’s minimum wage

Lizabeth Bonilla speaks at an SEIU rally near McDonald's on West Sahara Avenue joined by other minimum-wage workers to support raising the minimum wage in Nevada on Thursday, March 26, 2015.

Amid the fervor of caucus season in Nevada, a ballot initiative to raise the minimum wage to $13 an hour by 2024 was quietly withdrawn. The reason, according to proponents, was ...

Allegiant Air adds 22 nonstop routes and 3 cities

The Las Vegas-based Allegiant Air will expand its service to include three cities and 22 nonstop routes. The low-cost airline will soon offer routes from Las Vegas to Sonoma, California, and Albuquerque, New Mexico. Allegiant will be ...

Wynn delays pollution cleanup at Boston-area casino site

This artist's rendering released Wednesday, March 27, 2013, by Wynn Resorts shows a proposed resort casino on the banks of the Mystic River in Everett, Mass.

Wynn Resorts is delaying further cleanup of a heavily polluted, former Monsanto chemical plant site as its $1.7 billion casino project across the river from ...

Japan spins wheels as wary consumers stash their cash

The world's third-largest economy is stuck in neutral, as wary Japanese consumers and corporations opt to hold onto their cash rather than spend it ...

Las Vegas group kicks off Denver transit trip with look at airport commuter rail

A commuter rail line that is set to debut next month is shown at Denver International Airport, Monday, March 7, 2016.

Southern Nevada leaders from the public and private sector got an in-person look Monday at how rail transit can connect with a major airport ...

Sandoval to fantasy sports CEOs: Let’s see your ideas on regulations

In this Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, photo, an employee in the software development department of DraftKings, a daily fantasy sports company, walks past screens displaying the company's online system stats in Boston.

The future of daily fantasy sports in Nevada continues to hang in the balance, but it’s a bit brighter after a meeting of the newly reconvened Nevada Gaming Policy Committee. Participants appeared eager to ...

Summit encourages businesses to be engaged in education

Elaine Wynn speaks to attendees during the 2016 Business Education Summit inside Rynolds Hall at The Smith Center, Monday March 7, 2016.

For years, business and state leaders have made plenty of promises to improve the Clark County School District for the sake of the students and “economic diversification.” Today, members of the business community ...

Sales of previously owned homes take off in February

Sales of previously owned homes take off in February

Las Vegas used-home sales shot up last month from January as prices largely stayed flat again. Buyers picked up 2,112 single-family homes in ...

Owners of NLV pig farm moving operation, selling property

Bob Combs of R.C. Farms Inc. holds one of his many piglets on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2014.

The site of a North Las Vegas pig farm reviled by some neighbors because of its stench is going up for sale. Robert and Janet Combs, owners of R.C. Farms, have decided to move their business to a site near the Apex Landfill, pending the purchase of their 153-acre property. Today marks the beginning of a 60-day due diligence period, during which ...

Passion for live music is the bar’s baseline

Bobby Kingston and his wife Melissa own and operate the Saddle N Spurs Saloon.

Bobby and Melissa Kingston didn’t want their bar to be just a sports bar, or just a gaming bar, or just a watering hole. They wanted to attract an array of customers. For them, live music was the way to reach everyone.

Frustrations at the pump fueled by gas stations

We’re motorists, not masochists. None of us enjoys shielding our eyes from the ultra-violent ultraviolet rays as we peck key after key, like a one-fingered man hacking into NORAD.

Attorney’s advice: In life and business, talent should be nurtured

Whit Selert is a a labor and employment attorney with Fisher & Phillips LLP.

Senior of counsel at the law firm Fisher & Phillips talks about the importance of cultivating talent in Southern Nevada’s arts community, one of his most interesting slip-and-fall cases and his admiration of Leonardo da Vinci.

Rebirth of the Cosmopolitan

William McBeath, president and CEO of the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, makes a few remarks Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015, during an event celebrating the resort’s new ownership by Blackstone.

CEO Bill McBeath spearheaded the development of a business plan that included about $200 million in investments in areas such as the casino and the resort’s food and beverage offerings. The goal was to bring those areas more in line with the “cool, hip Cosmo brand” ...

People on the Move: March 6-12

In the Notes: Nicole Ward, Maggie Arias-Petrel, John Necs, Mariesa Bergin, Tina Kunzer-Murphy, Ryan Cupersmith, Jennifer Lucisano, Holly Welborn, Josh Hirsberg, Steve Thompson and more ...