The layoffs, like others in Southern Nevada this year, were blamed on the chilling effect the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the casino business.
2 August 2020
By Bryan Horwath
A visitor to Las Vegas is nearly $2 million richer after hitting a pai gow poker jackpot at Caesars Palace today. The player, a California resident who did not want to be identified, hit ...
31 July 2020
By Bryan Horwath
The Nevada Resort Association is pressing state lawmakers to pass legislation to protect casinos from unfounded coronavirus-related lawsuits it says could shut them back down. In a letter to Gov. Steve Sisolak this month, the association said it is seeking “targeted and limited safe harbor from ...
31 July 2020
By Bryan Horwath
Bill Hornbuckle has been named permanent CEO and president of MGM Resorts International. Hornbuckle, a longtime MGM employee who has ...
29 July 2020
By Bryan Horwath
Gambling and travel have been slow to recover since Nevada casinos began reopening June 4, according to monthly reports showing Las Vegas airport passenger numbers down nearly 77% in June compared with a year ago and a key casinos house winnings index ...
29 July 2020
By Ken Ritter, Associated Press
Although it won’t open until next summer, Resorts World Las Vegas is facing new challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The 3,500-room, $4.3 billion casino megaresort from Malaysian corporation Genting Berhad installed new safety protocols and managed to ...
27 July 2020
By Brock Radke
Several Las Vegas Strip resorts have announced jobs reductions as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Wynn Resorts, which operates Wynn Las Vegas and Encore, and ...
22 July 2020
By Bryan Horwath
Unions representing 65,000 Las Vegas-area casino workers have dropped two MGM Resorts International properties from a lawsuit accusing companies of skimping on protective measures and putting employees at risk of illness and death during the coronavirus pandemic. Culinary Union ...
21 July 2020
By Ken Ritter, Associated Press
The merger of Eldorado Resorts and Caesars Entertainment Corp. will result in a reduction of jobs, but the new company plans to make cuts as “compassionately and transparently as possible." Before layoffs resulting from the coronavirus pandemic ...
21 July 2020
By Bryan Horwath
A visitor from California took home nearly $875,000 after hitting a jackpot Friday at the Las Vegas airport. The woman, from Torrance, Calif., was playing a ...
20 July 2020
By Bryan Horwath
A Nevada company that started in 1973 with a single hotel-casino in Reno announced Monday it has completed a $17.3 billion buyout of Caesars Entertainment Corp. and ...
20 July 2020
By Ken Ritter, Associated Press
A $17.3 billion buyout creating the world’s biggest casino company won final approval Friday, with New Jersey gambling regulators agreeing to let Nevada-based Eldorado Resorts Inc. acquire Caesars Entertainment Corp. It comes after an antitrust analyst had assured the New Jersey Casino Control Commission that the deal affecting four of the nine casino-resorts in Atlantic City would not ...
17 July 2020
By Ken Ritter, Associated Press
At least 123 visitors to Nevada tested positive for the coronavirus while visiting the state in recent weeks or shortly after returning home ...
16 July 2020
By Michelle L. Price, Associated Press
New Jersey gambling regulators began Wednesday to consider Nevada-based Eldorado Resorts Inc.’s plan to buy Caesars Entertainment Corp. in a ...
15 July 2020
By Ken Ritter, Associated Press
Boyd Gaming Corp. is permanently laying off at least 25% of its employees because of the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, the company said. Furloughed employees who have not ...
14 July 2020
By Bryan Horwath
