One of Southern Nevada’s busiest streets that's a direct corridor between downtown Las Vegas and McCarran International Airport will be the subject of three public meetings to discuss future transit options. The Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada has scheduled meetings Nov. 8, Nov. 13 and Nov. 14 to discuss transportation on Maryland Parkway.
Negotiators with the United Steelworkers union and the Frias Transportation Management group met today, a day after taxi drivers took to the streets in front of the Las Vegas Convention Center to call attention to stalled contract talks.
One of Mexico's fastest-growing air carriers will begin twice-weekly service geared to Mexican leisure travelers between Mexico City and Las Vegas later this month.
The Nevada Taxicab Authority agreed to allow Southern Nevada’s 16 taxi companies to operate up to 30 additional cabs each if unions representing drivers of eight companies stage a strike. The measure was approved today in an emergency meeting.
While most airlines are cutting capacity to become more profitable, the fastest-growing airline at McCarran International Airport in the past year is expanding, and the strategy led to an 11.7 percent increase in third-quarter earnings.
One of Las Vegas’ largest and best-attended conventions rolled into the Las Vegas Convention Center on Tuesday, bringing car enthusiasts and thousands of automotive products together for four days of deal-making.
The organization that is coordinating Southern Nevada’s economic development strategy has named a longtime transportation expert its first chief executive.
McCarran International Airport experienced its steepest month-over-month decline in passenger counts for the year in September, but it is still on track to serve more than 40 million passengers this year.
British Airways began nonstop service to Las Vegas from London's Gatwick International Airport today, in what will become the first overseas competitive route to the city by two major international air carriers.
Do haunted houses have broad enough appeal to be permanent fixtures in Las Vegas?
Monday, Oct. 29, 2012
I often tell my out-of-town friends that it’s Halloween every day in Las Vegas. Between sexy cocktail servers, bedazzled entertainers and amateur street performers in superhero getups, you never know what you’re going to see when you go out in our city.
The parent company of convention industry supplier Global Experience Specialists reported increases in revenue and earnings today, and a recent Las Vegas show had a lot to do with it.
A day after a prominent sports book director was arrested in connection with an alleged illegal offshore gambling ring, Gov. Brian Sandoval has sent a letter to federal lawmakers supporting a bill to legalize Internet poker.
A blend of optimists and pessimists, visionaries and doubters, entrepreneurs and investors, all with a common goal – diversifying Nevada's economy by cultivating science and technology businesses – hooked up Thursday night in a historic gathering in downtown Las Vegas.
International travel to the United States has doubled in the past 20 years and few places have seen a greater expansion than Las Vegas, the Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program said in a report issued today.
Las Vegas-based Allegiant Travel Co., which operates Allegiant Air, reported record third-quarter earnings, boosted by greater passenger capacities, new routes to Hawaii and lower operational costs.
The Transportation Security Administration office serving McCarran International Airport had the fifth highest number of officers fired for theft in the country in the last 10 years, a broadcast report says.
While some are still awaiting a turnaround from the worst economic times they’ve ever seen, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is flush — so flush that the LVCVA board is being asked to increase the authority’s general fund budget by $10.6 million.
With one of the city’s five biggest conventions of the year on the horizon, the Nevada Taxicab Authority didn’t want to take any chances on poor cab service. It voted Tuesday to allocate additional cabs for next week’s Specialty Equipment Marketing Association show.
Cashman Field lease agreement was a hot topic at the LVCVA’s board meeting
Monday, Oct. 22, 2012
What looked like a routine lease deal between the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and the Las Vegas 51s mushroomed into something much bigger. At an LVCVA board meeting, there were accusations, power plays and the threat of losing professional baseball in Las Vegas, plus appearances by a descendent of one of baseball’s greats and the caretakers of a company named for a historic business figure.
The Nevada Department of Transportation hasn't ruled out building a highway on the eastern rim of the valley as part of the Interstate 11 project, but planners admit it would be an expensive proposition that essentially would complete a freeway loop around Las Vegas.
A longtime employee of the Nevada Taxicab Authority has accused the agency’s administrator of ordering confidential financial information to be sent to a taxicab company employee whose union is in contract negotiations with three cab companies.
With the marketers of Las Vegas stepping up their games to attract more visitors to the city from overseas, the hospitality industry needs to sharpen its hosting skills to keep customers happy and turn them into repeat customers, a panel of industry experts said.
The board of directors of the Governor’s Office of Economic Development on Thursday unanimously recommended tax abatements and deferrals for two companies planning to develop operations in Southern Nevada that would provide more than 300 jobs.
Record third-quarter revenue and load factors propelled Las Vegas market leader Southwest Airlines to a profitable quarter, the company reported today.
Two years have passed since the Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge opened over the Colorado River near the Hoover Dam. When it was built, the bridge bypassed 3.5 miles of hairpin-turn roads dotted with pedestrians. But few foresaw a major flaw in the project: When the new four-lane section of U.S. 93 opened, traffic jams formed in both directions on a 4.5-mile, two-lane uphill climb from the Hacienda to the traffic signal at Nevada Highway and Buchanan Boulevard in Boulder City. Boulder City Mayor Roger Tobler now hopes that highway designers can anticipate jams as they move forward developing U.S. 93 into Interstate 11 and building a 14-mile possible toll loop around Boulder City.
With the U.S. Olympic Committee bagging a U.S. bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, a coalition of winter sports enthusiasts will focus instead on attracting other sports competitions to the state, including the possibility of bringing a curling event to Las Vegas.
Union taxi drivers in a contract dispute with the Frias Transportation Management group have overwhelmingly rejected a labor agreement and authorized union leaders to strike.
Panelist at Global Gaming Expo says online poker may be just the beginning
Monday, Oct. 15, 2012
Had there been a real table set up for the round-table discussion on the state of the casino industry at the recent Global Gaming Expo, the CEOs gathered around it would have been kicking the shins of Walter Bugno, the head of Spielo International.
Former Clark County Manager Pat Shalmy now chairs the Las Vegas Monorail’s board of directors, and former Regional Transportation Commission deputy manager Curtis Myles serves as its president. They and Ingrid Reisman, vice president of corporate communications, sat down with VEGAS INC to discuss what’s next for the transportation system critics love to hate.
Two companies that would offer more than 300 jobs combined say they're moving to Southern Nevada and could open their doors by the end of the year. Niyato Industries, a Charlotte, N.C., company, and V5 Technologies LLC are planning to relocate.
While there are dozens of classic examples of ad campaigns gone wrong when they’re translated into foreign languages, “What happens here, stays here” as a pitch for Las Vegas appears to have broad international appeal.
Visitor volume was up slightly in Southern Nevada in August compared to last year, thanks primarily to conventions that were here this year and not in 2011 and an uptick in auto traffic from California.
Representatives of two major conventions that annually rank among the top five shows in Las Vegas by attendance and are expected to produce a non-gaming economic impact of more than $1.4 billion over five years have signed new contracts with the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. SEMA, the Specialty Equipment Market Association, and MAGIC, Men’s Apparel Guild in California, signed deals that will keep them at the Las Vegas Convention Center for five and three years, respectively.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority’s board of directors went extra innings today to approve a 10-year lease at Cashman Field for the city’s minor league baseball franchise.
It’s evident every time I go for a drive just how bad the motorists of Southern Nevada are. We treat Interstate 15 like a NASCAR track. Not a day goes by that I don’t see a high-speed moving violation on my commute between home and work.
Hundreds of spiritual leaders have come to Las Vegas to preach, and if their eyes weren’t already wide open to its unique personality and obvious challenges, they needed to be. Their reasons for settling here vary, and they say finding someone with the right personality to preach here can be tricky.
Part of her ministry: to confront sex trafficking in Southern Nevada
Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012
Kaitlyn Ferguson is taking her first walk along the Las Vegas Strip. Everywhere around her is a world of gluttony and debauchery. It might be the perfect place to develop her preaching skills.
Representatives of six gaming companies are optimistic about what the future holds for the industry with expansion and technological advancements leading growth in the next five years.
The gaming industry will need a little gambler’s luck to get Internet poker legislation passed in the lame-duck session after the November election, a trade association official said.
After five years of airline capacity bleeding out of McCarran and a corresponding decline in domestic passenger counts, there may now be some good news on the horizon for Las Vegas. Two well-respected aviation analysts expect growth at the airport that serves Las Vegas over the next five years.
Tower staffing cited as reason for airline leaving Northern Colorado market
Monday, Oct. 1, 2012
Residents of Northern Colorado have been scratching their heads over Las Vegas-based Allegiant Air’s decision to end service to Fort Collins-Loveland Municipal Airport this month. It turns out that a safety issue was behind the decision.
Las Vegas-based Allegiant Air will tap a new Canadian border market later this year with nonstop flights between McCarran International Airport and Plattsburgh, N.Y.
Everybody knows that big wheels roll in New York City. And New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is out to prove it. The mayor was scheduled today to announce construction of a 650-foot Ferris wheel — and they’re calling it that, not an observation wheel — on Staten Island’s north waterfront, just north of the Richmond County Bank Ballpark in St. George.
Wynn Las Vegas and Encore have joined the Preferred Hotel Group, an association of more than 650 independent luxury hotels in 85 countries, in a move to expand sales.
The owner of Flightlinez took a risk two years ago when he brought zip lines to Fremont Street. Downtown had not yet undergone its renaissance, the nearby Neonopolis was virtually empty of tenants, and casinos dominated the Fremont Street Experience. Today, the attraction is a soaring success. In fact, it lures so many riders and is so profitable that the Fremont Street Experience itself is reportedly considering taking it over. Ian Green, founder of Greenheart LLC, which runs Flightlinez, recently told VEGAS INC he is concerned that the Fremont Street Experience’s board of directors is developing plans that would eliminate his company as the operator of the attraction.