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Slot player wins over $1 million in downtown Las Vegas

An exterior view of the Fremont casino in downtown Las Vegas, Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013.

A visitor from Hawaii won over $1 million Friday while playing a slot machine at a downtown Las Vegas casino. The gambler won just over $1.1 million while ...

24 January 2022
By Bryan Horwath

Nevada casinos data: Jobs lost, revenues down amid pandemic

In this June 4, 2020, file photo, people play blackjack at the reopening of the Bellagio hotel and casino in Las Vegas.

The economic effect of the coronavirus pandemic emerged in stark numbers in an annual report showing a decrease in employees at Nevada’s biggest casinos and anemic revenues during the 12 months that followed ...

15 January 2022
By Ken Ritter, Associated Press

Bet on it: NY mobile sports gambling to go live this weekend

Mobile sports betting is coming to New York. The state’s gaming commission announced Thursday that four of the nine mobile sports wagering operators selected in ...

6 January 2022
By David Porter, Associated Press

Nevada casinos go record 9 months with $1 billion in house winnings

Gamblers play coin video poker machines at the El Cortez, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2020.

Nevada casinos set a record in November, reporting a ninth straight month of $1 billion or more in house winnings — in a sign that business in the nation’s ...

29 December 2021
By Ken Ritter, Associated Press

Circa resort sponsoring free COVID vaccination clinics

People line up in the Fremont Street Experience for the opening of Circa in downtown Las Vegas Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2020.

The Circa resort in downtown Las Vegas will host free COVID-19 vaccination clinics for employees and the public every Wednesday in January, officials announced today. The clinics, which will run ...

27 December 2021
By Ray Brewer

New owners of Palms to former employees: ‘We want you back’

A message from the San Manuel Gaming & Hospitality Authority is displayed on a marquee sign at the Palms Monday, Dec. 20, 2021.

As the Palms prepares to reopen next year, its new owners are scrambling to hire more than 1,000 employees and hoping to bring back hundreds of former workers.

22 December 2021
By Bryan Horwath

LVCVA, Vegas Chamber honor Hospitality Heroes

Alonzo Langstaff and Earl Manson, of Westgate Las Vegas Resort, are presented with the "Hospitality Hero Legacy Award" during the 2021 Hospitality Heroes end-of-year reception at UNLV's Hospitality Hall, Thursday Dec. 16, 2021.

More than 30 hospitality workers were recognized at a reception Thursday as part of the Hospitality Heroes program sponsored by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and the Vegas Chamber. “Some workers were ...

17 December 2021
By Las Vegas Sun Staff

Hard Rock to buy, rebrand Mirage on the Las Vegas Strip

An exterior image of the Mirage May 15, 2020.

MGM Resorts International announced today it plans to sell the Mirage casino operations to Hard Rock International. The $1.075 billion deal, expected to close during the last half of next year, is pending the necessary regulatory approvals, according to a news release. Hard Rock plans to enter into a long-term ...

13 December 2021
By Bryan Horwath

Sports betting ads: Industry weighs how much is too much?

A clerk counts money at the sports book at Freehold Raceway on Oct. 24, 2020, in Freehold, N.J. With advertisements for sports betting blanketing the airwaves, some in the industry and their pro sports and technology partners are starting to ask how much is too much?

If you've turned on a television in the last three years, chances are you've been inundated with advertisements for sports betting, and not only during game broadcasts. Commercials featuring ...

3 December 2021
By Wayne Parry, Associated Press

Report: A’s looking at Tropicana resort site for Las Vegas ballpark

An exterior view of the Tropicana Las Vegas hotel-casino Friday, Jan. 3, 2020.

The Oakland A’s are considering the Tropicana resort property on the Las Vegas Strip as a potential site for a new ballpark, according to a report today by CNBC, which ...

1 December 2021
By Bryan Horwath

9th Circuit sides with union in fight with Las Vegas casino

A view of the hotel tower at the Red Rock hotel-casino in Summerlin Saturday, Oct. 24, 2015.

A federal appeals court has upheld a U.S. judge’s ruling in Nevada requiring Station Casinos’ Red Rock Casino to bargain with the culinary and bartenders unions. The ruling by a ...

30 November 2021
Associated Press

Nevada casinos win $1.2B in October, matching record streak

Gamblers play Pai Gow poker at the Mohegan Sun casino inside Virgin Hotels Las Vegas Thursday, March 25, 2021.

Nevada casinos matched a record streak of eight straight months of $1 billion or more in house winnings in October, with travel, tourism and events returning to pre-pandemic levels in a state dependent on gambling revenues, according to ...

30 November 2021
Associated Press

Facade is rosy again: Can Bally's casino's future be, too?

This Oct. 1, 2020, photo shows the exterior of Bally's casino in Atlantic City, N.J.

Perhaps nothing symbolized the spotty performance of Bally's casino in Atlantic City in recent years better than the mismatched replacement windows in its glass facade...

26 November 2021
By Wayne Parry, Associated Press

Flamingo Las Vegas joins El Cortez marking milestone dates

People are shown at one of the gaming tables at the Flamingo in Las Vegas on May 24, 1955.

Two iconic Las Vegas hotel-casinos are marking milestone dates — one on the Strip and one downtown. The Flamingo Las Vegas has begun celebrating its 75th birthday ahead of the Dec. 26 anniversary of the date in ...

20 November 2021
Associated Press

World Series of Poker moving to the Las Vegas Strip

Play begins at the final table during the World Series of Poker at the Rio in Las Vegas Sunday, July 14, 2019.

The World Series of Poker is moving to Bally’s and Paris Las Vegas next year, with actor Vince Vaughn serving as master of ceremonies, Caesars Entertainment announced today. The series, which ...

17 November 2021
By Las Vegas Sun Staff
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