Nevada’s legalization of recreational marijuana has made life easier for users but more difficult for gaming companies, something the Nevada Gaming Commission hopes to address in a ...
22 August 2017
By Thomas Moore
A local woman won a jackpot of more than $700,000 this weekend playing a slot machine at Ellis Island, the casino’s director of marketing, Christina Ellis, said. The woman, who asked to ...
21 August 2017
By Jesse Granger
MGM Resorts International, the largest casino operator on the Las Vegas Strip, said Friday that it would match employee donations made to the ...
19 August 2017
By Associated Press
Three men are accused of cheating a Baton Rouge casino out of $56,000 by allegedly manipulating dice in a craps game. Louisiana State Police tell The Advocate authorities arrested ...
18 August 2017
Associated Press
There’s nothing worse than waiting in the airport, unless you’re waiting to be paid a $1.6 million jackpot like a California woman was Tuesday at McCarran International Airport. A woman from ...
16 August 2017
By Jesse Granger
The casino’s administrative offices are in a former drugstore. The gaming floor is in what used to be a post office. The food preparation and storage areas used to be a Moose Lodge. It seems only fitting that the latest upgrades for Emerald Island in downtown Henderson include expanding by 10,000 square feet into ...
16 August 2017
By Thomas Moore
ESPN reports that Las Vegas sportsbooks scrambled to take down various odds on the Dallas Cowboys today after news broke that the NFL had ...
11 August 2017
ESPN
A visitor from Southern California hit an $11.8 million Nevada Megabucks jackpot Tuesday night at the Fremont Hotel and Casino in downtown Las Vegas. Rodolfo T. hit the jackpot on the ...
11 August 2017
By Las Vegas Sun Staff
The first portion of the Interstate 11 project is set to open next week. The Nevada Department of Transportation will open the southbound lanes of I-11 from Foothill Drive in Henderson to Silverline Road in Boulder City on Tuesday. ...
11 August 2017
By Mick Akers
Matthew Stream dealt hand after hand of blackjack at a Northern California casino and seemed to run into a similar problem for players. In the quickness of ...
10 August 2017
By Mick Akers
The Cosmopolitan has announced a major makeover of most of its hotel rooms, the latest in a series of upgrades at the resort that have included the addition of ...
9 August 2017
By Thomas Moore
Caesars Entertainment has started taking payments at multiple locations in Las Vegas from WeChat, a smartphone messaging app that’s hugely popular in China. Starting on Tuesday, the company began ...
9 August 2017
By Thomas Moore
Chairman and CEO Frank J. Fertitta III said building and operating hybrid resorts (appealing to both tourists and locals) “is what we do.” “We're going to take everything ...
8 August 2017
By Thomas Moore
Wynn Resorts' properties have joined the list of casino-resorts on the Las Vegas Strip that no longer offer free self-parking. Wynn Las Vegas and Encore began charging customers to ...
8 August 2017
Associated Press
Casinos are slowly embracing competitive video game tournaments as a way to help their bottom lines, but the money is coming from renting hotel rooms to the young players and selling them food and drinks, not from turning them into gamblers. Like most other ways gambling halls have ...
8 August 2017
By Wayne Parry, Associated Press
