Las Vegas Business News

Las Vegas City Council approves Chick-fil-A location at Sahara and Rancho

This Thursday, July 19, 2012, file photo shows a Chick-fil-A fast food restaurant in Atlanta.

The Las Vegas Valley's first location of the Southern-style chicken chain Chick-fil-A has been made official. In June, the fast-food chain said it planned to open ...

Centennial Hills Hospital adding 36 rooms

Centennial Hills Hospital will build out its fourth floor, adding 36 inpatient beds as part of a $9.7 million project. The hospital will have 226 total inpatient beds when the expansion is completed later next year. The transformation ...

Competitive video gaming could be next step for bettors in Nevada

In this May 11, 2014, photo, fans watch the opening ceremony of the "League of Legends" season four World Championship Final between South Korea and China's Royal Club in Paris. Around the world, fans gather en masse to watch video game players compete in high-stakes tournaments. Fans also bet on the outcomes.

In Nevada, gamblers can wager on a wide range of sporting events: football, boxing, horse racing and, as of earlier this year, the Olympics, to name a few. What if video games were added to that list someday? E-sports has already ...

JetBlue plants seed with farm-to-tray-table concept

The JetBlue terminal at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York is shown Jan. 6, 2014.

JetBlue Airways is trying to bring a little bit of country to the city — opening its own "farm" at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. The 24,000 square-foot space — less than half the size of a football field — outside JFK's Terminal 5 is meant to ...

ESPN cuts sponsored DraftKings content from shows

ESPN is cutting sponsored DraftKings content from within shows but continues broadcasting commercials from the daily fantasy sports site. That's according to ESPN Outside the Lines host Bob Ley, who revealed the shift ...

Bail set for ex-dealer, co-defendant in Bellagio craps cheating case

The Bellagio Fountains on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014, at Bellagio.

An ex-casino dealer and a co-defendant each pleaded not guilty Tuesday to scamming a Las Vegas Strip casino out of more than $1 million with phantom craps bets over ...

Sam Nazarian’s SBE Entertainment will no longer manage SLS

An exterior view of SLS Las Vegas.

Sam Nazarian, the businessman who led the creation of SLS Las Vegas, is selling his ownership stake in the financially struggling Strip resort and his company will no longer manage the property. San Francisco-based real estate investment firm Stockbridge Capital Partners, which already owns 90 percent of the resort, is buying the 10 percent that Nazarian and ...

U.S. stocks mostly lower in midday trading; DuPont jumps

tocks were mostly lower in midday trading Tuesday, taking a pause after five straight days of gains. DuPont's shares soared on news that its embattled CEO will retire, while ...

Conservative think tank attacks NV Energy plan to build new power plant

Exterior view of the NV Energy building Monday, Oct. 20, 2014, in Las Vegas.

The Beacon Hill Institute, a conservative think tank backed by the Koch brothers, released a report Monday condemning a new, $1 billion natural gas plant proposed by NV Energy. The institute ...

Almost 900,000 square feet of Summerlin office space placed on the market

Hines Interests and Oaktree Capital Management are trying to sell 18 office buildings in the Summerlin area of Las Vegas. The portfolio includes the building at 10000 W. Charleston Blvd., as seen above on Monday, Oct. 5, 2015.

Las Vegas brokers with CBRE Group last week listed more than 895,000 square feet, spread across 18 buildings, that Hines Interests and Oaktree Capital Management bought in fall 2012 as part of a $119.5 million portfolio purchase ...

Haggen to sell one of its Southern Nevada stores to Smart & Final

Several Vons and Albertsons stores across the valley were converted into Haggen grocery stores in June.

Grocery chain Haggen has found buyers for 36 of its stores in California and Nevada. it will sell one Nevada store and 27 in Southern California to Smart & Final LLC. They will sell eight Southern California stores to ...

Data hack at Trump hotel in Las Vegas, 6 others confirmed

A view of the Trump International Hotel Las Vegas Friday, Aug. 21, 2015.

Customer credit and debit card numbers may have been stolen at seven Trump hotels after its payment systems were hacked for over a year. The Trump Hotel Collection said on its website that hackers gained access to ...

Zappos CEO on Downtown Project: People expected us to do what local government should have been doing

Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos, gives a keynote address at the South By Southwest V2V tech conference for entrepreneurs at the Cosmopolitan Monday, Aug. 12, 2013.

Two years ago, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh said he would have felt unsafe walking around the area where Container Park now sits on Fremont Street and 7th Street. Not only does Hsieh now feel safe, less than two years since ...

Burger spot shakes up Downtown Summerlin; new Raising Cane’s to debut

Burger spot shakes up Downtown Summerlin; new Raising Cane’s to debut

Shake Shack brings its burgers, fries and custards to Downtown Summerlin as Raising Cane's opens its 10th Nevada location ...

Presidential debates as seen in Smith’s World

Presidential debates as seen in Smith’s World

Cartoonist Mike Smith shares his take on some of the candidates as October debates approach.

China could fast-track high-speed rail from Las Vegas to California

An artist’s rendering of a train on the XpressWest high-speed rail line.

XpressWest, a 230-mile high-speed rail project slated to stretch along the Interstate 15 corridor, could be just what Las Vegas needs to bring more weekend tourists from Los Angeles, but more importantly, it could mark ...

Bank executive paying it forward

Stacy Watkins volunteers at schools in Las Vegas, where she teaches young people about financial literacy.

Stacy Watkins, a cancer survivor, dedicates time to teaching children about financial literacy.

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Golf courses are pioneers of conservation in Southern Nevada

Larry White of Puyallup, Wash. drives off the eighth tee at the Palm Valley Golf Course in Summerlin Monday Sept. 28, 2015. The area of dead grass at left (in yellow) will be converted into desert landscaping to save water.

Since 2002, when the Southern Nevada Water Authority introduced a drought-response plan that limits annual golf course water budgets, golf course owners, operators and ...