Las Vegas Business News

VEGAS INC's 2025 C-Suite Honors laud outstanding local business leaders

VEGAS INC's 2025 C-Suite Honors laud outstanding local business leaders

Annually, VEGAS INC awards the prestigious C-Suite Honors to some of the community’s most engaged executives. From the Vegas Golden Knights to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Nevada, leaders of diverse organizations are recognized for their business acumen and contribution to the community.

MGM Resorts leader Bill Hornbuckle to chair U.S. Travel Association board

MGM Resorts International president and CEO Bill Hornbuckle addresses the crowd after being inducted into the Nevada Business Hall of Fame in a ceremony on the campus of UNLV, hosted by Lee Business School on Thursday, April 4, 2024.

MGM Resorts International CEO and President Bill Hornbuckle was appointed to serve a two-year term as the national chair of the U.S. Travel Association’s board of directors, the group announced today. Hornbuckle will lead ...

Two important considerations when choosing a leadership mentor

A new report from the Association of Business Mentors shows that 65% of business leaders felt that the mentoring they had received helped them directly boost their revenues, and 64% said the same of their profits.

Two Las Vegas doctors prescribe easy way to eat healthy

Two Las Vegas doctors prescribe easy way to eat healthy

Customers of this delivery service could order chicken fajitas. Others may opt for the pan-seared salmon with rice and sautéed spinach, or shrimp partnered with couscous and an array of vegetables.

The Notes: Philanthropy, Feb. 24, 2025

In the Notes: NAIOP Southern Nevada, Gwendolyn Woolley Elementary School, Leah Grinvald, Maddie’s Fund, Dimopoulos Law Firm and more ...

Culinary Union backs Nevada Rep. Steven Horsford’s plan to end subminimum wage, taxes on tips

U.S. Rep. Steven Horsford, D-North Las Vegas, speaks Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025, before Culinary Union members at the Culinary Academy of Las Vegas, discussing his proposal, which would include ending income tax on tipped wages. With him are, from left, Aaron Deview, a bartender at Golden Nugget; Yolandda Garcia, a fountain worker at Resorts World; and Ted Pappageorge, Secretary-Treasurer for the Culinary Union.

It’s still unclear whether President Donald Trump’s pledge to end taxes on tips will make it into the final budget put forward by Republicans in the House of Representatives, especially when they’re trying to push ...

Nevada legislation aims to hold food-delivery apps accountable for restaurant impersonators

Allen Penn, regional general manager for APAC of UberEats, speaks to the media during a 2017 news conference in Seoul, South Korea, announcing UberEats’ expansion to the Korean peninsula.

Christina Martin has been on a crusade against fraudulent business practices on food-delivery apps since April 2024 when she found out her Las Vegas pizza shop was being impersonated by another restaurant ...

Nevada lawmaker trying again to kill federal excise tax on sports bets

The newly renovated STN Sportsbook at Sunset Station in Henderson.

U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, D-Las Vegas, is again trying to remove the quarter percent federal excise tax, also known as the handle tax, on legal sports bets, she announced today. The tax ...

People on the Move: Feb. 17, 2025

In the Notes: Kaitlin Tinoco, Drew McGregor, Ondra Berry, Amaya Modern Mexican, Anjala Krishen, Steven Borgna and more ...

UNLV medical student pushes for ban on plastic cutting boards in restaurants

UNLV medical student Josh Khorsandi responds to a question during an interview at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. Khorsandi n a mission to get the City of Las Vegas to ban plastic cutting boards from restaurants due to concerns of microplastics.

When Joshua Khorsandi moved to Las Vegas last year to start at UNLV’s Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine, he noticed many restaurants using plastic cutting boards to prepare food ...

Lawmakers: Act will speed up federal land transactions in Nevada

Housing construction continues in the Skye Canyon area within the Las Vegas region on Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2018.

U.S. Rep. Susie Lee, D-Nev., and U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., stood on a gravel-filled vacant lot in northwest Las Vegas Friday morning with a promise: In a few years this once federally owned land will host around 3,000 homes.

Can suspending a cage-free egg law solve the soaring price problem? Nevada takes a crack at it

Red Star hens, a hybrid breed that lays large brown eggs, walk around outside their coop at Historic Wagner Farm, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, in Glenview, Ill.

Back when egg prices remained securely under $2 a dozen in 2021, Nevada joined several other states concerned about animal welfare in requiring cage-free eggs. Now four years later, a dozen eggs costs an ...

Lombardo signs bill intended to lower egg prices in Nevada

Nevada Gov-elect Joe Lombardo gives a speech during a news conference, Nov. 14, 2022, in Las Vegas.

Gov. Joe Lombardo signed legislation today authorizing the Nevada Department of Agriculture to temporarily suspend the state’s ban on caged eggs when supply is strained by ...

Rideshare car drop-off service searching for a hybrid niche in Las Vegas

Vay remote driving station.

A unique rideshare is expanding its footprint in Las Vegas. Vay, a driverless car sharing service, allows teledrivers at a remote driving center to operate a car from afar and deliver it to people who request ...

Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada pauses refugee program in response to Trump order

English as a Second Language students attend a class for beginners at Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada Tuesday, March 29, 2016. Many of the students are refugees.

Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada has paused its refugee resettlement operations for 90 days in the wake of an executive order from President Donald Trump suspending ...

Nevada contractors board pushes for stricter regulations on unlicensed workers

Homeowner Barbara Ojito and her disabled brother Julio Ojito walk by an unfinished back patio during a Nevada State Contractors Board news conference at a home Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024. Ojito hired an unlicensed contractor to do work on her house but the man did shoddy work and never finished the job, she said.

A list of 21 unlicensed contractors is displayed on the Nevada State Contractors Board’s website, a sort of “most wanted” inventory of people accused of taking big payments from clients and not delivering on the agreed upon work ...

2023 Nevada law on septic systems turns plans for dream homes into nightmares

Kurt and Julie Boringdon, Las Vegas natives, beautiful piece of land with a nice view of the strip in the Henderson Foothills on Wednesday, January 29, 2025.

Some properties around the Foothills of Henderson are more than 3,000 feet away from the sewer and would cost more than $2 million to connect, said Lauren Huff ...

Record betting at BetMGM and Caesars for Super Bowl

Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts (1) huddles up his teammates prior to the NFL Super Bowl 59 football game against the Kansas City Chiefs, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025, in New Orleans.

The Eagles weren't the only big winners Sunday. Sportsbooks also came out on top ...

Sandoval joining board of Resorts World Las Vegas

Brian Sandoval, president of UNR, gives a report during a Board of Regents meeting at the College of Southern Nevada in North Las Vegas Friday, March 10, 2023. Sandoval served as Nevada governor from 2011 to 2019.

Former Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval is joining the board of directors at Resorts World Las Vegas, the company announced this morning. Sandoval, who is president of UNR, joins ...

Shifting construction industry could change status quo for workforce

Construction workers rebuild CW Woodbury Middle School Tuesday, June 25, 2024.

The impact of the construction industry is obvious during the daily commute. From roads and plumbing to power lines and even the grocery store — everything was previously ...