As fate would have it, their 1940s diner concept, Winnie & Ethel’s, took the top spot in The Great Las Vegas Coffee Shop Giveaway. The competition, similar to the TV show “Shark Tank,” was organized by J Dapper, a Las Vegas real estate developer and owner of the downtown Huntridge Shopping Center.
On a recent afternoon, Phil Hellmuth, one of the most recognizable faces in the poker world, strolled into the sprawling PokerGO Studio on the Las Vegas Strip. The ...
The Department of Justice on Monday filed a “civil enforcement action” against Steve Wynn that requires the former chairman of Wynn Resorts to register as a foreign agent. According to a news release, Wynn lobbied then-President Donald Trump in 2017 on behalf of the Chinese government to “cancel the visa or otherwise remove” a Chinese businessperson from the U.S. The action was ...
Allegiant Stadium will host a two-day job fair for part-time game day and event staff positions beginning Sunday. Positions include jobs related to ...
Las Vegas trash collectors could go on strike unless a new contract is reached by the end of this month, union officials said. Tommy Blitsch, secretary-treasurer for ...
A startup company called EVolve EV Rentals will offer Tesla Model 3, Model Y, Model S and premium Model X vehicles, with Resorts World Las Vegas as the pick-up and drop-off location.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority agreed today to spend up to $19.5 million to bring Formula One racing here for the next three years. “The scale of ...
After a groundbreaking ceremony for a new housing development, Tom McCormick was stopped by a passerby along Vegas Valley Drive in the east valley. The man wanted to ask McCormick, president of the Touchstone Living development company, about ...
About 300,000 people visited the Strip for some or all of the NFL Draft last weekend. More important for Vegas tourism officials: The 10 million television ...
In just 10 years, the median price for a home in Las Vegas has quadrupled. According to a report released Friday from the Las Vegas Realtors trade group, the median price for an existing home in Southern Nevada was $475,000 in April. That’s up from the previous record of $460,000 set in ...
Miles from the bright lights, jangling slot machines and crush of tourists on the Las Vegas Strip, a project is under construction that some economists believe represents the future of ...
Of all the people enthused about the reopening of the Palms this week, Raul Daniels might be among the most excited. A Palms legacy employee, Daniels previously worked at the property under ownership structures backed by the N9NE Group and, later, Station Casinos.
One of the changes patrons will see at the just-reopened Palms near the Strip is at the sportsbook. William Hill is now the book operator at the resort, which was closed for just over two years and reopened ...
When Mary Bowens showed up for the public opening of the Palms about 6 p.m. Wednesday, she was ready to party. A three-hour wait did nothing to dampen her mood when she was the first patron to enter the newly reopened casino resort through ...
As he stood in a sky villa suite at the Palms, Las Vegas native Brandon Beach wondered aloud why he had never spent any time at the Palms before the property closed in ...
Downtown Las Vegas features a little bit of everything: Gaming, entertainment, food and more. But when it comes to meeting space to host conventions—one of the region’s main drivers of tourism—many staying Downtown are forced to commute. Circa Resort & Casino hopes to alter that narrative.
A small plane flipped over this morning while waiting to take off from Harry Reid International Airport, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The plane ...
Las Vegas is expected to draw nearly 38 million visitors this year, but that pace is projected to slow in 2023, according to the latest economic outlook report released Wednesday by the UNLV Center for ...
Soila Solano, who is disabled and lives on a fixed income, got a shock when her new landlord notified her of a rent increase on her house. And not just a little increase. The Las Vegas home she had been renting for $950 a month was going up to $1,400 — a nearly 50% increase overnight. “I don’t know ...
Circa Sports is stepping into the Reno area casino market. The sportsbook brand backed by downtown casino owner Derek Stevens will run the book at the ...
With the latest edition of the New York Post in one hand and a beer in the other, George Miller fumbled for a betting slip he feared might have been blown away on a blustery day at a ...
Tree of Life Dispensary sets up a 'conscientious' business model
Monday, April 18, 2022
The owners of this Southern Nevada dispensary have a different business model. MJ Jameson and her parents, Florence and Frank “Gard” Jameson, plan to eventually give 70% of the profits from their Tree of Life ...
Some cannabis dispensaries in Las Vegas gear their marketing and promotions toward attracting tourists to their shops. AYR Wellness Inc., a multistate cannabis cultivator and dispensary operator, takes a different approach ...
Las Vegas is home to one of the top 10 busiest airports in the world, according to a report released Monday. Harry Reid International Airport — which serviced just under 40 million travelers in 2021 — was ranked as the 10th busiest airport in the world, according to Airports Council ...
Las Vegas tourism officials late last year introduced a national advertising campaign that refers to the city as the “Greatest Arena on Earth.” The drive is part of a new ...
A hyperloop public transportation system. An initiative to funnel students from marginalized communities into tech-related fields. A plan to brand Las Vegas as a “medical tourism” destination. Those were just some of the ideas pitched by ...
Last month, nearly one-third of all home sales in Southern Nevada were paid for in cash, according to a report released Wednesday morning. The report, commissioned by ...
When Allegiant Stadium finished in the top spot in a recent National Football League fan experience survey, even executives with the Las Vegas Raiders were surprised. It’s not that it wasn’t warranted, but it’s a competitive field. The NFL is an organization that features 30 stadiums, including the recently-opened $5 billion ...
The Palms, shuttered since the outset of pandemic in March 2020 and then sold to a new hospitality company, will reopen April 27, officials announced this morning. The resort, west of the Strip on ...
As he stood on a villa balcony overlooking the posh Wynn Golf Club, Teddy Liaw peered off in the distance. On this near-perfect spring day on the Strip, an onlooker might have mistaken the pause by Liaw, an avid golfer, for a brief daydream, possibly a yearning to be ...
Plans are for a 3.8-mile racetrack to be constructed along a stretch Las Vegas Boulevard and some adjacent streets. The track will start near Top Golf and MGM Grand before heading north on Koval Lane.
A woman from Hawaii won a $1.3 million slot machine jackpot Monday at a downtown Las Vegas casino, according to a news release. The woman won the progressive jackpot late Monday morning after ...
After a 12-hour flight from Frankfurt, Germany, touched down in Las Vegas on Monday, Michael Sudbeck and his wife were ready to get their vacation started.
As Clark County leaders work to help diversify the region’s tourism-heavy economy, an outsourcing arrangement is at the forefront of those efforts for its unincorporated areas. The county is working with North Star, a place branding firm out of ...
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority has released its annual visitor profile study after a one-year hiatus. The report is an in-depth peek at the habits of the millions of people who visit Southern Nevada each year. In 2019, about 42 million people visited the Las Vegas area, though that number was cut in half in 2020 because of the pandemic. Last year, Las Vegas ...
Almost six decades after he was killed in the line of duty, a Metro Police officer is set to receive an honor his daughter says would make him proud. A new police K-9 training and operations center is being built next to the South Point, thanks to a ...
The trade show industry in Las Vegas is returning to pre-pandemic form and should be back on pace sometime in 2023, said Steve Hill, president and CEO of the tourism bureau. Hill spoke today at the West Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center as preparations were underway for this week’s ...
Las Vegas was one of the hardest hit cities by the Great Recession in the late 2000s, as the economic devastation brought a housing crisis with foreclosures and forced thousands of people to file for bankruptcy. Nevada had the most bankruptcy filings of any state in the country in 2009 and 2010 with around 30,000 each year, according to ...
A Las Vegas sports betting ethics firm is investigating some wagers made on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers shortly before star quarterback Tom Brady announced his return from retirement. Matthew Holt ...
A “brand-builder” and former Google executive has been tapped by the Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. to head up MSG Sphere operations in Las Vegas, according to a news release. Lucas Watson, who ...