Las Vegas Business News

Beard-grooming business is growing

Dane Mentzer, left, the founder and CEO of Tusk & Hide Trading Co., talks with customer Elisha Quick at his booth in a vendor area of the Punk Rock Bowling & Music Festival in downtown Las Vegas Monday, May 25, 2015.

Dane Mentzer calls himself the chairman of the beard. His company creates men’s grooming goods such as beard oil, beard balm and whisker wax, as well as shaving implements for those who like or need to stay clean shaven.

People on the Move: June 7-13

In the People: Charles Profeta, Robert Coogan, Hannah Birch, Ramon Icasiano, Patrick Moore, Ike Mayberry, Aeriel Halstead, Gretchen Inouye, Kelsey Hand, Chance Casas, Manual Martinez and more ...

The Notes: June 7-13

In the Notes: ArrowData, Gaudin Jaguar, Las Vegas Pain Relief Center, CraftHaus Brewery and more ...

Addressing needs of Southern Nevada, lawmakers did us proud

The 2015 Legislature will be distinguished by the gutsy leadership of Gov. Brian Sandoval in daring politicians to deal with reality and the needs of Southern Nevada. Responsible and politically selfless Democrats and Republicans heard ...

Me? A poker pro? The buy-in is too high

Las Vegas Sun reporter Case Keefer competes in the $565 buy-in "Colossus" event during the World Series of Poker at the Rio Monday, June 1, 2015.

The mental anguish and stress level of poker is too much. Nothing could have reinforced my position better than a successful run last week through the biggest tournament in the history of poker. There were 22,373 entries in the Colossus, the World Series of Poker’s first-ever $565 buy-in event, which was ...

With education funding settled, the question is: Who gets a new school?

Thirty-five fourth-grade students in Ms. Fennoy's class utilize tables instead of desks to tolerate the overcrowding and tight quarters of their portable classroom, which exceeds the average of 30 students, at William V. Wright Elementary School, Friday, March 22, 2013.

Crowding in elementary schools is not a new problem for the Clark County School District. But thanks to funding authorized by the Legislature this year, the district has its first opportunity since 2008 to ...

Winning bid for lunch with Warren Buffett tops $2.3 million

In this Nov. 14, 2011, photo, billionaire investor Warren Buffett speaks in Omaha, Neb., at an event to raise money for the Girls Inc. charity organization.

A Chinese company that develops online games bid more than $2.3 million Friday to win a private lunch with Warren Buffett. Beijing-based Dalian Zeus Entertainment Co. bid $2,345,678 to win the online auction ...

Proposed Las Vegas track would let drivers zoom in Ferraris, other exotics

World Class Driving plans to open Speed Vegas, a luxury sports car racetrack, at Las Vegas Boulevard and Sloan Road a few miles south of the M Resort. The vacant project site is pictured above on Thursday, June 4, 2015.

Having received a green light from Clark County commissioners, executives with World Class Driving are planning to open the Speed Vegas racetrack, which they dub the “fastest” and “most extreme new experience in Las Vegas,” a few miles south of ...

Broker gets FAA approval to use drone to take real estate photos

Real estate broker Jeff Galindo plans to use his Phantom 2 Vision+ quadcopter, an updated version of the Phantom 2 Vision drone pictured here, to take real estate photos for commercial purposes.

Across Southern Nevada, homes listed online usually have a slideshow of photos — some good-quality, some not — showing the yards, bedrooms, kitchen, garage and other areas of the house. Real estate broker Jeff Galindo wants to spruce up such marketing pitches — with the help of a drone. Galindo, of Simply Vegas, obtained Federal Aviation Administration approval in mid-April to use a small, unmanned aircraft system for commercial purposes. He’s one of a growing number of people ...

Homebuyers in Las Vegas are making smaller down payments, report says

A view of model homes in a Ryland Homes subdivision at Buffalo and Diablo drives in the southwest valley Sunday, April 5, 2015.

The quarterly numbers are a possible sign of easier mortgage lending in what had been ground zero for America’s real estate bust ...

World Series of Poker crowns winner of massive Colossus event

Lance 'Cord' Garcia gets a kiss from his mother, Kristen Scott, while posing for photographers after he won the World Series of Poker Colossus event Wednesday, June 3, 2015, in Las Vegas.

Card-playing supremacy. Bragging rights. Cold, hard cash. More than 22,000 gamblers — many pros, quite a few amateurs — came for the same thing in Las Vegas, drawn by the low cost ...

Greenspun Media Group names Prouty as group publisher

Greenspun Media Group announced Wednesday, June 3, 2015, that Gordon Prouty had been named group publisher overseeing the company's print and digital products, including Las Vegas Weekly, The Sunday, Vegas2Go and their sister websites.

Greenspun Media Group has named Gordon Prouty as group publisher overseeing GMG’s industry-leading print and digital publications, including ...

Las Vegas puts moratorium on new package liquor stores

Signage advises that package liquor is not allowed to be consumed at the Fremont Street Experience Thursday, July 17, 2014.

The Las Vegas City Council is temporarily putting a hold on new package liquor licenses while it studies whether parts of the city are oversaturated with alcohol retailers. The number of licenses for package stores has been ...

Triple Crown hopeful American Pharoah is Belmont favorite

Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes winner American Pharoah nips at his groom's hat during a bath after working out at Belmont Park, Wednesday, June 3, 2015, in Elmont, N.Y. American Pharoah will try for a Triple Crown when he runs in Saturday's 147th running of the Belmont Stakes horse race.

American Pharoah was made the early 3-5 favorite Wednesday to win the Belmont Stakes and become horse racing's first Triple Crown winner in 37 years. The Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner drew the No. 5 post position for Saturday's 1 ½-mile race at Belmont Park. Fourteen horses have ...

San Francisco’s skyrocketing housing prices prompt vote

A man rides his bike past a new 40-unit Mission District condominium development Tuesday, June 2, 2015, in San Francisco. Finding a place to live has become so expensive and emotional that city supervisors are considering a 45-day moratorium on luxury housing in the Mission District.

Check out rental sites for San Francisco, especially the trendier parts: Well over $3,000 a month for a one-bedroom flat and nearly $5,000 for two bedrooms ...

Allegiant pilots appeal court order barring strike

Allegiant Air pilots picket in front of Allegiant Air headquarters Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015, in Summerlin. Pilots, represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union, have been in contract negations with the company for two years, a union representative said.

Allegiant Air pilots have appealed a judge’s ruling that they did not have a legal right to walk off the job when they tried to go on strike in ...

Judge dismisses gamblers’ $3 million lawsuit against Foxwoods

Three gamblers from China including a woman known as the "Queen of Sorts" for her card-monitoring skills have lost a legal challenge to reclaim nearly $3 million in winnings and deposits they say were kept by ...

Tesla Motors co-founder wants to electrify commercial trucks

Wrightspeed CEO Ian Wright displays some of the company's electric-powered trucks on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015, in San Jose, Calif. Wright helped bring electric cars to market when he co-founded Tesla Motors a decade ago.

Twelve years ago, Ian Wright and some fellow engineers launched Tesla Motors, a Silicon Valley company that has helped jumpstart the market for electric cars. Now, the Tesla co-founder wants to electrify noisy, gas-guzzling trucks that deliver ...

Wal-Mart kicks off next phase of wage increases

In this Feb. 17, 2009 file photo, shoppers leave a Wal-Mart in Danvers, Mass. Wal-Mart is raising starting wages for more than 100,000 U.S. department managers and workers in its deli and other specialized departments, the company said Monday, June 1, 2015.

Wal-Mart is raising starting wages for more than 100,000 U.S. department managers and workers in its deli and other specialized departments ...

Lawmakers, industry urge IRS not to lower threshold for reporting slot winnings

Gamblers try their luck with slot machines during the opening of the casino floor at the Cromwell, formerly Bill's Gamblin' Hall & Saloon, on the Las Vegas Strip and Flamingo Avenue, Monday, April 21, 2014.

Geoff Freeman, president of the Washington, D.C.-based American Gaming Association, said in a conference call today that about 13,000 people from across the country had spoken out against the potential threshold change ...