The Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association submitted a counterproposal to keep the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas, after it rejected a previous plan by local event organizers.
The sports book management company accused of lax supervision of its employees in connection with an illegal bookmaking operation would be fined a record $5.5 million under a proposed settlement.
Annual ridership for the Las Vegas Monorail Co. went up for the first time in five years in 2013, the company said, but revenue trends continued the downward spiral that began in 2006.
McCarran International Airport had the seventh-worst rate of flight delays and cancellations among 35 North American airports in December, a company that tracks on-time performance reported. Portland, Ore.-based FlightStats said McCarran had a 65.8 percent on-time rate with 11.8 percent of its departures classified as “excessively late,” leaving at least 45 minutes after the scheduled time.
Allegiant Air didn't announce many new Las Vegas routes last year, but the sixth busiest air carrier at McCarran International Airport still has big plans.
A popular Chinese wireless technology company has started operating in Las Vegas and expects to develop manufacturing and distribution facilities that will employ hundreds of Las Vegans.
The International Consumer Electronics Show brings more than 150,000 people to Las Vegas. While attendance may be down this year as a result of thousands of flights across the country being canceled by conditions resulting from the polar vortex, there were still shoulder-to-shoulder crowds in many of the aisles of CES. Here are a few snippets about some of the people of CES.
"Transformers" director Michael Bay says he's embarrassed that he walked off the stage during a presentation of Samsung's new curved ultra-high-definition television.
Longtime Las Vegas food critic Max Jacobson was crossing a street while strolling to the gym when he was struck by a sports utility vehicle and hospitalized.
A taxi driver who turned in $300,000 found in the back of his cab has received a $10,000 reward from the gambler who lost it. Gerardo Gamboa received the reward money from an unidentified gambler, believed to be a local poker player, who left the money in a paper bag in the cab.
Longtime Las Vegas food critic Max Jacobson was in critical condition today at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center after he was hit by a sport utility vehicle Monday while in a crosswalk.
After five months of increases and five months of declines in the number of passengers flying into McCarran International Airport this year, November’s numbers were right where you’d expect — with no change at all.
Talk about a Christmas miracle. A Las Vegas cab driver who found $300,000 — $100 bills in six $50,000 bundles — in a brown paper bag in the back seat of his taxi returned the money to the owner, a gambler who had won big at the Cosmopolitan.
Delta Air Lines, the second-busiest commercial air carrier at McCarran International Airport, has begun a two-month pilot program to prevent thefts from the airport’s baggage claim carousels.
Former UNLV and NBA player Jackie Robinson, a Las Vegas businessman, announced today plans to break ground next year on the 22,000-seat arena on the north end of the Strip. It could host basketball, hockey, boxing, rodeos and concerts.
For Las Vegas, it’s perfect timing. Seattle-based Alaska Airlines today inaugurated nonstop service between Alaska’s largest city, Anchorage, and Las Vegas, weeks after the state’s residents began receiving their annual Alaska Permanent Fund royalty checks.
Dotty’s Casino chain owner Craig Estey and his company, Nevada Restaurant Services, requested a gaming license for the Hoover Dam Lodge, formerly the Hacienda, between Hoover Dam and Boulder City.
Developing a medical school at UNLV would be the single most productive means of diversifying Southern Nevada’s economy and improving the quality of life here, a panelist addressing an economic outlook presentation said today.
Wynn, Adelson have applied the best of their Las Vegas creations to Macau properties
Monday, Dec. 16, 2013
Some of Las Vegas’ most successful casino entrepreneurs have parlayed their fortunes by developing great ideas, tweaking them over time, then exporting them.
A local aircraft ground support company is doing so well it already has outgrown two buildings. Start Pac, which manufactures batteries and chargers used to start airplane and train engines, recently expanded to a 15,000-square-foot building on West Sunset Road.
Las Vegas is one of the top 10 U.S. destinations to visit in 2014, according to the Lonely Planet, which publishes travel guides. The city landed eighth on the list announced today.
More than 2,700 jobs were created in Southern Nevada during the most recent fiscal year, as dozens of companies moved or expanded operations here. Fifty-eight companies relocated or grew here from July 2012 to June 2013.
Portion of revenue from rooms rented here goes toward marketing the entire state
Monday, Dec. 9, 2013
Some members of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority board of directors have quietly begun asking questions about whether it’s appropriate for room tax revenue generated in Clark County to be used to market tourism attractions statewide.
Quick: Where is corporate headquarters for IGT, the world’s leading slot machine manufacturer? If you guessed Reno, you'd be wrong. Despite the fact that the company is Reno's fourth-largest employer, IGT’s corporate home is in Las Vegas. Both CEO Patti Hart and Chief Financial Officer John Vandemore live in Southern Nevada, which has become IGT's base of operations.
The Nevada Tourism Commission this week launched a $1.3 million winter advertising campaign heavy on promoting the Lake Tahoe area as a skiing destination.
It’s still too early to tell how profitable online poker will be, but trailblazing gaming companies are beginning to generate revenue from their Internet investments.
VEGAS INC assembled a panel of eight local businesspeople for a roundtable discussion about where we’ve been and where we’re headed. The takeaway: The economy is improving — slowly.
Wayne Gorsek is a self-taught vitamin and supplement manufacturer who arrived in Southern Nevada in 2012 after taking his first company, Vitacost, to Inc 500 prominence. Now most of Gorsek's products are distributed through DrVita.com, but he also has a distribution deal with Costco and manufactures his products under other labels.
Shfl Entertainment’s 350 employees in Nevada and 900 worldwide began working for Bally Technologies today as Bally put the finishing touches on a $1.3 billion acquisition announced in July.
By hosting World Routes conference last month, city had chance to woo airline execs
Monday, Nov. 25, 2013
The dust has settled at the Las Vegas Convention Center and McCarran International Airport since the city hosted World Routes 2013, the annual aviation conference that brings together airline and airport representatives from around the world.
Officials at McCarran International Airport are encouraging passengers flying or picking up arriving passengers today to check with their airlines regarding weather-related flight delays.
A study by two Washington-based associations affirms what most local tourism leaders already knew: A rail transportation system serving the airport would make the city a more desirable place to live and visit.
Southwest Airlines is unveiling an updated smartphone app today that will allow passengers to get on their plane by showing a boarding pass on the screen of their phone.
Conference shows how far Las Vegas has to go in world of medical tourism
Monday, Nov. 18, 2013
From the moment delegates stepped into Caesars Palace’s conference center for the sixth annual World Medical Tourism and Global Healthcare Congress, it was clear that Las Vegas was out of its league as a medical tourism destination.
Six companies relocating to or expanding in Clark County sought tax abatement and deferral incentives from the state. Approval of the abatements and referrals would result in an additional 766 jobs and a total capital investment of $60.5 million.
McCarran International is among 100 airports that will soon start allowing military troops to pass through expedited security lines for trusted travelers, who don’t have to do things such as remove their shoes.
The top executive of a company planning to run a casino party train between Southern California and Las Vegas is denying a published report that the project is dead.
Cubs, Mets to meet during spring training series expected to bring nearly $3 million to Las Vegas
Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority unanimously approved spending $300,000 to bring the Chicago Cubs and the New York Mets for a two-game spring training baseball series March 15 and 16.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority today rolled out the first of a new batch of television ads that are a variation on the “What happens here, stays here” theme. The new ads, which debuted Monday nationwide, mostly on cable outlets, focus on “Vegas enablers” — the instigators and troublemakers who generate “What happens here” moments.
Las Vegas-based American Casino & Entertainment Properties LLC, operators of the Stratosphere and two Arizona Charlies properties in Las Vegas and the Aquarius in Laughlin, reported losing $9.4 million in the third quarter.
The state is in the running to be a national drone test site
Monday, Nov. 11, 2013
The Federal Aviation Administration is weeks away from announcing where it will test unmanned aerial systems — drones capable of flying in situations that are too dangerous or mundane for manned aircraft. Nevada is on the short list of 25 applicants from 24 states. Six test sites will be chosen, the next step to opening the nation’s airspace to civilian drones.