As a boy, Kevin Kittisoros remembers running around his parents' restaurant in northwest Las Vegas. Back in 2000, Kit and Joy Kittisoros were working to get their ...
Jeff Saling, co-founder and executive director of StartUpNV, said the goal of the inaugural Southern Nevada Angel Conference was to give Nevada’s startup community a jolt and raise awareness of investor options.
In an increasingly cashless society, the Salvation Army is changing with the times. Beginning this holiday season, the charitable organization will accept financial donations through Apple Pay and ...
The report showed that the median price for an existing home in the Las Vegas area was $307,000 last month, down just slightly from September, but up more than 4% from October 2018. The all-time high for the area was $315,000 in June 2006, just before the Great Recession when ...
The famed Carnegie Deli at the Mirage will close next year, according to an MGM Resorts spokeswoman. Tailored after the original Carnegie Deli that opened in the 1930s in New York City, the Las Vegas location will close its doors for good in February, according to a statement from the spokeswoman. The deli, famous for ...
For the past three decades, Leon Boghossian has visited Las Vegas about twice a year. The Rhode Island resident has seen many changes to the city during that time, but is particularly ...
As they played the popular video game "Fortnite" at the HyperX Esports Arena on Wednesday, middle schoolers Sasha Lira and Ruby Ramirez didn’t seem especially interested in pursuing careers in esports. The fact that neither eighth-grader expressed interest in ...
Sensing an opportunity to add its tech prowess to a unique existing partnership, the Silicon Valley company, known mostly for its computer processors, announced a deal to work with Caesars Entertainment and UNLV on the Black Fire Innovation education hub ...
Walgreens plans to close all in-store health care clinics at its Las Vegas Valley locations by the end of the year, a company spokesman said. After the company announced plans to ...
Two Nevada State Bank branches in Las Vegas and one in Boulder City will close after the bank’s holding company announced staffing cuts. The branches at 4970 E. Tropicana Ave. and 9305 S. Cimmaron Road in ...
Potbelly Sandwich Shop, a fast-casual eatery that serves up everything from PB&J to roast beef on bread, is coming to Las Vegas. Casino owner and entrepreneur Eric Persson said ...
Matthew Holt recognized the proliferation of legal sports betting as a modern-day gold rush and quickly staked his claim, launching a Las Vegas company that works with teams, leagues and sportsbooks to detect possible cheating or irregularities. “What do you do in a gold rush?” Holt asked rhetorically. “You ...
With the Las Vegas Convention Center expansion project about halfway complete, The Boring Company is readying to begin tunnel-digging work that will eventually lead to a ...
The Las Vegas Sun on Tuesday asked a Clark County district judge to uphold a recent arbitration ruling that the Las Vegas Review-Journal owed the Sun millions of dollars in back payments under a ...
In the not too distant future, slot machine players might not need to insert their loyalty cards to rack up points. Using facial-recognition technology, the ...
Tilman Fertitta can lay claim to a number of titles—billionaire, casino and restaurant mogul, TV personality and pro sports team owner. And as of September 17, the Houston native can add the title of author to that list.
The annual number of Chinese travelers to the United States has been dropping recently, a trend that has caught the attention of the U.S. Travel Association. That’s a topic that ...
Casino mogul Phil Ruffin didn’t want to leave anything to chance in his pursuit of acquiring Circus Circus on the Las Vegas Strip. So, he put in an “over-the-top offer.”
Don’t be surprised if National Hockey League broadcasts eventually include heavy dosages of sports gambling references and information. That was part of commissioner Gary Bettman’s message today at a sports betting symposium at the Global Gaming Expo in Las Vegas ...
If Southern Nevada eventually woos a Major League Baseball franchise, a longtime Las Vegas baseball man doubts it will be the Oakland Athletics. Following MLB Commissioner ...
MGM Resorts International has a deal in place to sell the Bellagio to a real estate investment trust for $4.25 billion. In a joint news release, MGM and real estate firm Blackstone today ...
The agreement made sense on a number of levels, including the fact that the Raiders will maintain a strong Southern California following after the team moves to Las Vegas ...
The Las Vegas Monorail Co. has funds in place for a new station on the Strip that will provide transportation to the Sands Expo Center, the Venetian and ...
A 2019 UNLV graduate, Natnael Gebremariam knows the stresses of figuring out how to pay for college. “I applied for scholarships and grants, basically anything that I could get to ...
During a recent morning at the El Cortez, Phyllis Henry heard a noise that has become all but extinct on Las Vegas casino floors. It was the ching-ching-ching of coins crashing down from a machine into a metal tray. In this case, it was ...
Founded eight years ago, Cut and Taste is the brainchild of Adam Pusateri and Las Vegas native Jeremy Jordan. “We want to be known as the best caterer in Las Vegas,” Barnett said. That might be up for debate, but there’s no debating the company’s recent rise.
Some small Nevada farmers are making the switch and benefiting from hemp’s resilience in the desert climate
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In 2017, the first year it was legal to grow industrial hemp in Nevada, Harris Farms began cultivating it outdoors on a 10-acre plot north of Pahrump. By 2018, a federal reclassification removed the hemp plant from being labeled as a controlled substance.
Southern Nevada needs more software developers, managers and nurses, according to a workforce report released today. The product of a collaboration among the ...
Gov. Steve Sisolak today announced the naming of an executive director to the state’s Cannabis Compliance Board, which will is expected to take over regulation of ...
The Las Vegas airport slipped a bit but didn’t drop far in the latest J.D. Power and Associates customer satisfaction ranking for mega-airports in the U.S. and Canada. McCarran International Airport finished in ...
License plates honoring victims and survivors of the Oct. 1 mass shooting are set to go on sale this week. The specialty Forever Strong plates will ...
Aptiv, a company focused on driverless car technology, has seen its presence in Las Vegas grow from a dozen or so employees last year to some 200 today. That rapid expansion earned the company this year’s ...
Golden Nugget and Houston Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta will be in Las Vegas this weekend to sign copies of his new book, “Shut Up and Listen!” The billionaire businessman and ...
A claim by the Las Vegas Review-Journal that the Las Vegas Sun has breached a decades-old Joint Operating Agreement can move forward in Clark County District Court ...
In the complaint, the Sun contends that the R-J’s owners violated a longstanding Joint Operating Agreement, virtually eliminating profit sharing and omitting the ...
Beginning Wednesday, ride-hailing service passengers leaving McCarran International Airport’s Terminal 1 will have a new pickup point. Passengers using services like Uber and Lyft will no ...
Caesars Entertainment has completed a deal to sell the Rio but will continue to operate the Las Vegas property for at least two years, the company announced today ...
Alex Mazzola, the CEO of a Las Vegas company that produces e-liquid vape solutions, says a threatened federal ban on flavored vaping products would put him out of business and claims small enterprises like his are “getting squeezed by big tobacco.” The Trump Administration recently said it ...
America First Credit Union will donate 300 UNLV football tickets to survivors of the Oct. 1, 2017, mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip. The credit union will donate tickets for UNLV’s Oct. 5 game ...
In this 24-hour town of ours you can get a drink, go grocery shopping and lift weights whenever you desire — regardless of the time of day. Now, Las Vegas-area residents can also have legal marijuana delivered to their front door at all hours. After debuting cannabis delivery service last month in California, MedMen ...
Wynn Las Vegas and Encore will start offering free valet parking for everyone later this month. The new policy will take effect Sept. 30. “Free valet parking is an amenity that is highly appreciated by ...
Dale Laizure, who has worked in information technology for more than 20 years, relocated last year to Las Vegas from Southern California to be part of the area’s emerging tech industry. He’s not alone.
A well-known name in Nevada gaming circles, A.G. Burnett served on the state’s Gaming Control Board from 2011 to 2017, taking over as chairman in 2012. An attorney, Burnett, is now a partner at ...
If retail is indeed dying, nobody told the folks at Marshall Retail Group. An independent specialty retailer with more than 600 employees based in Las Vegas and ...