The good news for Nevada is that it now has a strategic plan for treating problem gambling. The bad news: State budget cuts have eliminated funding to put the plan in motion.
The prototypical Las Vegas visitor in 2011 was a 49-year-old, white, married, Southern California man who has a college degree and earns $100,000 a year or more.
Southern Nevada’s tourism numbers continued to climb in February, aided by the return of some conventions and trade shows, calendar shifts that landed shows in that month and an extra day courtesy of Leap Year.
It didn’t take long for public outrage to blow up when news of Allegiant Air’s policy to charge passengers $35 per flight segment for carry-on luggage hit the street.
When the National Association of Broadcasters brings its annual convention to Las Vegas next week, there won’t be any additional taxicabs to accommodate the more than 100,000 conventioneers expected to be in town.
You might say Gary Kuntz is a regular at Planet Hollywood. Lots of people at the Strip resort know him. The doormen. The bell staffers. The bartenders. “Those people are incredible,” Kuntz said of the Planet Hollywood crew. Yet Kuntz, a CPA in private practice in Bozeman, Mont., isn’t a high-roller. In fact, the main reason he comes to Las Vegas is to be treated for prostate cancer. In his last trip to Las Vegas in late March, he flew from Bozeman and his first stop was to see his doctors at Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada.
Big-box stores, the elephants of the suburban retail savanna, face growing threats to their survival. The evolution of technology, combined with society’s growing comfort with buying online, are taking their toll.
The University of Nevada and UNLV on Monday will announce details of a collaboration to bring one of the gaming industry’s most important international conferences to Las Vegas next year.
Agents with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Transportation Security Administration will be ordered to put on their happy faces as part of a bid to make the United States a friendlier place to visit.
Several flights to Las Vegas from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Love Field were canceled or postponed Tuesday after tornadoes ripped through North Texas.
Gov. Brian Sandoval was clearly impressed with what he saw of Southern Nevada’s potential as a key location for the development of drone aircraft systems when he visited Rancho High School and Embry Riddle Aeronautical University less than two weeks ago.
Las Vegas-based Affinity Gaming LLC rebounded to profitability in the fourth quarter, according to the company’s filings to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Las Vegas-based Allegiant Air will impose a $35 fee per flight segment on passengers taking carry-on luggage stowed in overhead bins beginning with Wednesday bookings, the airline confirmed Monday.
She’s efficient, works all hours without complaining — even holidays, if necessary — and never takes a lunch break. Meet ALICE, a virtual office receptionist system created by Las Vegas-based software company WinTech.
Although Macau has surpassed Las Vegas as the largest generator of gaming revenue in the world, it still can’t match it as a tourism destination, says an emeritus professor at UNLV. And that could eventually hurt the Chinese city.
Strong international air traffic and the benefit of an extra day in the month pushed McCarran International Airport’s passenger totals to the highest percentage increase in five months as 3.1 million people passed through the airport’s gates in February.
Locals casino giant Station Casinos LLC says cash flow is up and operations are improving, but not enough to prevent a $4.2 million loss for the fourth quarter.
Gov. Brian Sandoval will solicit all viewpoints on Internet gambling — including those of Las Vegas Sands Chairman Sheldon Adelson and other critics — to develop policies to manage and regulate the rapidly changing industry that could be headed to the United States someday.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say I had better seats than you at Saturday night’s Las Vegas Philharmonic concert. I was on the chorus risers, back row, eighth from the end, stage left.
It’s been more than a year since the Sun broke the story that developers of the DesertXpress high-speed rail proposal between Las Vegas and Victorville, Calif., would seek a $5 billion federal loan.
Acting on his vision of Southern Nevada becoming the Silicon Valley of the civilian unmanned aircraft industry, Gov. Brian Sandoval paid a visit Thursday to students who are learning aeronautics and could help the state reach that goal.
The Nevada Gaming Commission approved entertainer Jimmy Buffett's gaming licensing request Thursday, enabling his company, Margaritaville Holdings LLC, to receive an unspecified capped level of gaming revenue generated at the Margaritaville Casino and Restaurant at the Flamingo with Caesars Entertainment.
It’s been awhile since the Southern Nevada tourism industry experienced any gas pains. But with the price at the pump closing in on $4 a gallon, some resorts are thinking about what to do if prices continue to soar.
Air traffic and ground transportation at McCarran International Airport will be disrupted briefly Wednesday when Air Force One arrives and departs for President Obama’s short visit to Boulder City to tour a solar energy plant.
The Nevada Economic Development Commission has approved eight economic incentive requests projected to bring 618 new jobs to the state — including 499 in Clark County — in one of the busiest sessions the state agency has ever had.
Nevada airports are better economic drivers than those in nearly every other state in the country, a report prepared for Airports Council International-North America says.
Workers who set up big trade show and convention floors are often under intense deadline pressure to deliver an environment for events that draw millions of people to Las Vegas to conduct business. So Global Experience Specialists, one of Southern Nevada’s leading convention supply and service companies, is drawing from a pool of workers who have a reputation for not cracking under pressure — military veterans.
A gaming industry investment analyst is projecting a 40 percent increase in MGM Resorts International’s stock price in 12 to 18 months despite expecting short-term declines attributed to higher labor costs and expenses.
It’s here every year and each year, it seems to get bigger and better. And tastier. The International Pizza Expo wraps up three days of displays at the Las Vegas Convention Center today.
With business travel rebounding and Las Vegas still one of the nation’s hottest trade-show destinations, a company has begun efforts to develop a large convention center venue near Henderson Executive Airport.
The Nevada Taxicab Authority has canceled a special meeting, originally scheduled for Wednesday, that had the makings of being one of the most volatile gatherings in the agency’s recent history.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority board of directors took its first step Tuesday toward acquiring some property — something it hasn’t done in three years because of the recession.
One of Nevada’s most enduring casino company families is poised to add another page to its legacy. Michael Gaughan Jr. has been recommended by the state Gaming Control Board to take over management of the Rampart Casino next month.
It isn’t easy for a small business to become a supplier to one of Southern Nevada’s major companies, but it is possible. Just ask Miguel Jimenez. Jimenez started small — just one food outlet at one property. Eventually, he was able to grow because managers at the various restaurants and stores talk to each other.
Local taxi drivers caught a couple of big breaks last week. Not only did things go their way in a pair of Nevada Taxicab Authority allocation hearings, but not a single driver was thrown out of the meeting or arrested.
Some of the newest travel products and accessories were on display in Las Vegas this week at the Travel Goods Association trade show. More than 300 companies exhibited at the show, which drew about 3,500 people to the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Visitor volume showed a small uptick in January, despite a calendar quirk that made for a tough comparison against 2011 totals, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority said. The LVCVA reported 3.15 million visitors to Southern Nevada in January, 0.9 percent ahead of 3.13 million in 2011. But 2011’s calendar had the benefit of five full weekend dates while January 2012 had only four Saturdays.
The state Gaming Control Board has unanimously recommended approval of the licensing of entertainer Jimmy Buffett and his Margaritaville Gaming casino enterprise in Las Vegas. If approved by the Nevada Gaming Commission, which will consider the request on March 22, Buffett will enter a revenue-sharing agreement with Caesars Entertainment in the separate Margaritaville Casino within the Flamingo.
With apologies to the screenwriters of “The Godfather, Part III,” just when Las Vegas thought it was out of the recession, big oil has pulled us back in.
The latest efforts to keep the National Basketball Association’s Sacramento Kings from relocating won't mean the game is over for bids to build arenas in Southern Nevada.
Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow went deep Saturday night, inspiring thousands of church worshipers who came to hear him tell football stories and how his experiences have made him an inspirational Christian man in the National Football League.