Local home prices are trending up. The median price for a home sold in Southern Nevada in June was $304,000, up just slightly from May, according to a report released today by the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors. The figure, which is up nearly 5% from June 2018, represents ...
Last month, the Dr. Robert Hunter International Problem Gaming Center hosted an event to announce the rebranding of the nonprofit organization, formerly known simply as ...
For those looking to explore some Las Vegas museums on the cheap this weekend, Bank of America is offering some options. As part of its Museums on Us program, the bank is offering ...
Las Vegas home values aren’t appreciating like they have been in recent years, and a reversal doesn’t seem to be on the horizon. Southern Nevada ranks ...
A Vegas Stats & Information Network-produced TV show is now available on the MSG Network. According to a news release, VSiN’s “Follow the Money” sports ...
A former editor of the old Nellis Bullseye military base newspaper died Monday in Illinois. Rob Murphy, 54, had battled liver disease, his widow, Lora Murphy, said. The Murphys spent several years in Southern Nevada in the 1980s when ...
During his final day on the witness stand Monday, an official with the Nevada Department of Taxation reiterated that state officials and third-party evaluators were fair in their handling and scoring of retail cannabis license applications last year …
Amid a collection of large and expensive projects progressing in the Las Vegas Valley, one seems to have existed a bit under the radar. A city within a city in Henderson continues to go up east of U.S. 95 near Central Church. It’s called Union Village, and it’s already home to Henderson Hospital and an upscale apartment complex called The Well, which has about 400 units. In the coming months and years, plans are for ...
During his first year as president and CEO of the American Gaming Association, Bill Miller has had a full plate. Since January, he’s been busy making rounds and developing relationships with ...
In the 1970s, Gary Carano wouldn’t have imagined his family’s company would one day be the talk of the gaming industry. But nearly a half century after his father, the ...
Because of its stagnant stock price, real estate developer Howard Hughes Corp. could be for sale soon. The company’s board of directors indicated it will enter into ...
“Sahara is such a recognizable name. It’s a name that’s embedded in the city and in the lore of the city, but we’re not looking back so much as looking forward.”
A Las Vegas company broke ground today on a 24-story nongaming hotel near the Strip. The 284-room Delta Hotels property by Marriott is under construction at Valley View Boulevard and ...
Treasure Island owner Phil Ruffin said he’d be interested in buying another Strip casino if a Caesars property becomes available in the company's just-announced merger with Eldorado Resorts. Eldorado said Monday it was buying Caesars in a $17.3 billion cash-and-stock deal that would create the largest ...
When the owners and operators of a Northern California tech startup decided they wanted a fresh start in a new city, Las Vegas seemed like it would be a good landing spot. Las Vegas has attributes that appealed to Knight and the rest of the Terbine leadership, such as ...
A top Nevada marijuana regulator said Thursday that outings with representatives of businesses seeking coveted cannabis retail licenses didn’t taint the state’s selection process ...
The head of Nevada’s marijuana enforcement division said Wednesday that mistakes could have happened during the state’s cannabis retail licensing process last year ...
Even if Nevada had a mulligan, it wouldn’t change the procedures followed last year when issuing retail marijuana licenses. That was part of the testimony ...
Valley Vista, a new master-planned community in North Las Vegas, will include an elementary school and commercial plots across 600 acres of planned development ...
Longtime Boyd Gaming executive Bill Noonan is set to retire. Noonan, 67, informed the company last week that he will step down July 31 from his position as ...
While walking through perhaps his most exquisite masterpiece, homebuilder Ranny McKee couldn’t help but take a moment to admire his work. “Even for the homes I build, this one was over the top,” McKee said of the house he built in Seven Hills for Las Vegas businessman Mark Lindsey. A stunner even by ...
With mobile apps now a regular part of daily life, it makes sense that one would be dedicated to helping organizations find short-term employees. Enter Instawork, a gig worker app geared toward the hospitality sector.
A lucky player at the Palazzo added more than $1 million to their net worth this week. An anonymous gambler playing Ultimate Texas Hold'em this week made a diamond royal flush to win ...
Steve Gilbert defended a group of eight temporary employees contracted from Manpower who helped the state decipher and grade more than 450 applications last fall ...
Andrew Jolley, an executive with Nevada Organic Remedies, said it wasn’t his job to analyze how the Nevada Department of Taxation graded applications for cannabis dispensary licenses ...
For millennial Zac Zaher, convenience and community are important traits he looks for in a housing complex. A local commercial real estate broker, Zaher, 30, has no ...
A judge will continue a hearing this week to decide whether Nevada should be blocked from granting dozens of retail marijuana licenses, after losing applicants complained that the scoring system used to determine the winners was ...
Las Vegas-area homes are appreciating at their lowest rate in the past seven years. That’s according to numbers released this week from the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors. For May, and for the third consecutive month, median existing home prices in Southern Nevada continued to hover around the $300,000 mark. The year-over-year increase of just under ...
The World Series of Poker is more popular than ever. That’s based on the number of entries into the WSOP’s 50th anniversary opening weekend tournament, dubbed the Big 50. The $500 buy-in tournament had more than ...
El Dorado Cantina will soon have a second Las Vegas Valley location. The Mexican restaurant is expected to open late this summer at Tivoli Village on the valley’s west side, according to ...
Baseball in Downtown Summerlin appears to be a hit as the Las Vegas Aviators are leading all Triple-A franchises in attendance through the initial 28 games at the new Las Vegas Ballpark. In fact, not only are the Aviators drawing better than ...
AECOM was the general contractor for Las Vegas’s T-Mobile Arena and built Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, which hosted the Super Bowl in February ...
Pit boss Irving “Pete” Berger diligently walks around the table games area at Ellis Island monitoring the action with his hands clasped behind his back. Berger is in his element. He ...
MGM Resorts International announced today it is eliminating 557 more jobs in a “second and final round” of layoffs as part of a company reorganization.
Visitor spending around Lake Mead National Recreation Area held steady last year, according to a report from the National Park Service. The report, released Tuesday, estimated that Lake Mead visitors spent about $336 million within a 60-mile radius around the park in 2018. That figure matches the ...
The Wynn Resorts board of directors today fired back at the Massachusetts Gaming Commission, which last month decided to fine Wynn CEO Matt Maddox. On April 30, the commission levied a ...
In a world where corporate-owned casinos and hotels are now the norm, the El Cortez is a throwback. The same goes for co-owner Kenny Epstein. The frontman for the small group that owns the ...
Henderson isn’t just the fastest-growing city in southern Nevada, it’s also one of the fastest-growing cities in the country. Despite the growth, the Henderson housing market ...
Vegas Dave’s legal troubles appear to be a thing of the past, but so are his sports-betting privileges in Nevada. David Nakama Oancea, as he is known to the ...
Now halfway complete, the new Raiders stadium in Las Vegas will see a price increase. According to Don Webb, chief operating officer of the Las Vegas Stadium Co., that’s not because of cost overruns. It’s because ...
A Missouri gambler added $1 million to his net worth at the M Resort over the weekend. The man from St. Louis, whose name was not released, had the top score in Saturday’s finals of ...
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority board of directors approved a contract with an Elon Musk company to build an underground people mover ...
Lee Canyon has plans to build a new ski lodge. In fact, dirt-moving has already started for a project to erect a 10,000-square-foot lodge that will feature a heated ...
Nashville developer Tim Downey and his team looked at many sites in Las Vegas but ultimately decided Symphony Park was the place to be. On Tuesday, Downey, CEO and founder of ...
"Our product is intended to stimulate more and more travelers who are not used to traveling on airplanes. We have a low-fare, high-value product. It’s worked well here."
More than four decades ago, Michael Ty came to Las Vegas from upstate New York with the goal of becoming a chef on the Strip. Working his way up from the bottom, Ty was eventually named executive chef at Caesars Palace in 1982 and later became food director. “My dream was to make that my lifelong job,” Ty said. But, as Ty put it ...