The Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada received a series of reports on future projects for roads, highways and transit at today’s meeting.
The Nevada Taxicab Authority on Tuesday approved a new measure to head off the detrimental effects of simultaneous driver strikes against Clark County’s two largest cab company groups and authorized additional cabs for three big-turnout events on the Las Vegas calendar. The authority board voted unanimously to allow cab companies to operate up to 30 additional vehicles.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority board of directors on Tuesday approved two measures that will bring professional sports teams to Las Vegas for exhibition games. The board also agreed to sponsor a special event to bring visitors to Mesquite.
Representatives of Western Cab Co. told regulators today they have withdrawn their application for approval to be acquired by the Yellow-Checker-Star family of companies.
Book details how the travel industry affected the growth of our desert oasis
Monday, Dec. 10, 2012
If you’re still looking for a stocking stuffer for the history buff or aviation geek in your life, check out the recently published book by UNLV Academic Assessment Director Daniel Bubb, “Landing in Las Vegas.”
Rodeo has come a long way since a group of cowboys from neighboring ranches in Deer Trail, Colo., got together to settle an argument over whose wrangling skills were the best. How did rodeo get to be so big in Las Vegas? Here’s a look at some key events that have helped bring attention to Las Vegas every December.
October visitor volume in Southern Nevada increased by 2.9 percent over the same month last year to 3.52 million, the second-highest monthly total for tourists this year, officials said.
Gov. Brian Sandoval said there’s still work to be done, but “the road is getting a bit easier” in transforming the state’s economic development policy. He gave a 30-minute address to about 700 people attending the Nevada Development Authority’s annual meeting.
Drivers for the Yellow-Checker-Star taxi companies have authorized union leaders to call a strike as early as Dec. 16 over their ongoing contract dispute. A representative of the Industrial Technical Professional Employees Union said the vote to authorize a strike was “overwhelming."
Citing an impasse in negotiations, the Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada has ended its bid to lease offices at the Nevada Cancer Institute operated in Las Vegas by the University of California San Diego Health System.
You’re driving along U.S. 50, the so-called “Loneliest Road in America,” and you’re wondering: Where would be a good place to have lunch in Eureka? And what are some of those just-off-the-road attractions around that only the locals seem to know about?
Most people in the tourism industry love it when the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo comes to town because they make extra money. George Allen likes it for a different reason. The road supervisor for Yellow-Checker-Star Cab sees it as an opportunity to revisit his roots and meet up with salt-of-the-earth people.
It isn’t every day that you’ll have a person proclaim in a public meeting that she lost her virginity in Nevada. But that’s what happened — sort of — at Tuesday’s Nevada Tourism Commission meeting.
Increasing international visitation and taking advantage of technological innovations to increase the number of tourists visiting the state dominated the conversation at the opening day of the lightly attended Governor’s Conference on Tourism on Tuesday.
Las Vegas-based Allegiant Air will begin flying nonstop between Las Vegas and Reno in February, launching the route with fares that are about half the price of a ticket on Southwest Airlines — unless you add Allegiant’s fees.
A coalition of minority business organizations, including the Black Business Council of Nevada, will meet in Victorville, Calif., next week, hoping to get a jump on construction jobs for the planned XpressWest high-speed rail project that would link Las Vegas with Victorville.
Union drivers for the Yellow, Checker and Star taxi companies have rejected a contract endorsed by the union’s bargaining committee and now will consider authorizing leaders to call a strike.
Project Vesto, the state business competition designed to bring entrepreneurs together with private investors and venture capitalists, is extending its deadline for proposals to Dec. 31.
What business lessons were learned in 2012? What is on the horizon for us in 2013? VEGAS INC assembled a panel of people from different sectors of the local economy to talk about where Las Vegas has been and where it is headed.
Sponsorship of Reno air races, PR deal are controversial for state tourism board
Monday, Dec. 3, 2012
It is going to take a little longer for us to find out how the Nevada Tourism Commission plans to brand the state and what its new advertising tagline will be.
The Nevada Taxicab Authority voted unanimously today against allocating additional cabs for next month's National Finals Rodeo. Although 150,000 people are expected to be in Las Vegas for the 10-day event, board members concurred that cab fleets for Clark County's 16 companies are large enough to accommodate the crowd.
When the U.S. Olympic Committee announced last summer that the United States would not bid to host the Winter Olympic Games in 2022, Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki vowed to continue to try to attract world-class winter sports events to the state.
What’s billed as the world’s largest slot machine will dispense people instead of cash in June when the Fremont Street Experience unveils SlotZilla, a towering launch pad for new permanent zip lines beneath Fremont’s LED canopy.
Airline’s expansion will include a Caribbean destination among seven new cities
Monday, Nov. 26, 2012
The busiest commercial airline at McCarran International Airport is spreading its wings and by April will have seven new cities on its route map, including its first in the Caribbean.
Claudia Vecchio reflects on what she has learned as director of the state Department of Tourism and Cultural Affairs
Monday, Nov. 26, 2012
When Claudia Vecchio accepted the job as director of the state Department of Tourism and Cultural Affairs a year ago, she knew she was entering uncharted territory. The state had just combined its tourism, arts, museums and Native American culture departments into one office because of a budget crunch. It was anybody’s guess how well the parts would fit. Vecchio came from the tourism industry, having headed a Dallas company that promotes tourism for midsize communities.
Because Maryland Parkway is a direct route between downtown Las Vegas and McCarran, transportation leaders are looking to enhance Maryland Parkway and have taken the first step in the transition.
Informational pickets by Spirit Airlines flight attendants began at McCarran International Airport today, days before millions of passengers take to the skies for the Thanksgiving holiday.
A company planning luxury train service between Southern California and Las Vegas has signed a key agreement with the Union Pacific Railroad that could lead to the start of passenger service by the end of next year. Las Vegas Railway Express signed the deal last week enabling the company to operate its “X Train” on Union Pacific tracks between Daggett, Calif., and Las Vegas.
When Southwest Airlines inaugurates service to its 85th city — Wichita, Kan. — next year, it will kick it off with nonstop flights to and from Las Vegas.
There’s still a way to make the formerly bankrupt people mover a useful tool here
Monday, Nov. 19, 2012
The Las Vegas Monorail Co. is out of bankruptcy. Although countless critics have savaged the monorail and want to see it torn down, it’s a system worth keeping, and even building on.
Las Vegas is known as the “Marriage Capital of the World.” Clark County issues an average of 315 wedding licenses every day. That’s more than 100,000 a year. While most ceremonies take place in chapels, including many on the Strip, Las Vegas is famous for its over-the-top weddings. Check out our list of some of the more unusual places to get hitched.
Las Vegas-based Allegiant Air, buoyed by its successful launch of service to the Hawaiian islands earlier this year, is setting its sights on Mexico and could begin routes to and from Las Vegas and Orlando by the end of next year or early 2014.
Contract negotiations continued this week between flight attendants represented by the Transport Workers Union and Las Vegas-based Allegiant Air, with a major squabble involving the airline’s use of part-time flight attendants.
Mexico City's Interjet will become the 17th international airline to offer service at McCarran International Airport today when its inaugural flight from Mexico City’s Toluca Airport arrives tonight.
Representatives of Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada and the University of California San Diego Health System are continuing negotiations for CCCN to lease a portion of the Nevada Cancer Institute’s Summerlin facility.
Sometimes it’s a little rough hanging around former Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman. Just ask Clark County Commissioner Lawrence Weekly, a member of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority board of directors, who found himself in Goodman’s shadow on a few recent trips.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority awarded a major painting contract to an out-of-state company, but the contract requires the winning bidder to use locally based painters and subcontractors.
McCarran International Airport is the 12th worst in the country for flight delays, but that’s actually good news — a year ago, the airport that serves Las Vegas was No. 4.
When the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority goes on the road to tourism trade shows, showgirls and Elvis impersonators are the magnets that draw people away from the likes of New York and Orlando. And so does former Mayor Oscar Goodman.
A tentative contract agreement was reached today between negotiators with the Industrial Technical Professional Employees union and Yellow-Checker-Star, the second-largest operator of taxis in Southern Nevada, but negotiations with a second cab company are continuing, so the threat of strike has not been completely averted. The deal blunts a potentially crippling blow to tourist transportation as two unions representing more than half of the cab drivers working in Clark County were in contract negotiations with the two largest cab groups representing eight of the 16 companies licensed to operate in the county.
A bus transportation company that sued the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada after a nine-month contract stalemate failed to make the cut when the RTC rebid the contract with a revamped process.
Visitation to Las Vegas remained status quo in September. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority today said 3.4 million tourists visited the city for the month, a 1.8 percent increase from a year ago. For the first three quarters of 2012, visitation was up by the same percentage, to 30.1 million. At the current pace, visitation would fall just shy of the LVCVA’s goal of 40 million tourists for the year, but a good turnout for the National Finals Rodeo in December could put the total over the mark.
A company that manages call centers and has an existing operation in Las Vegas is opening a new facility that will hire 100 people. Sitel Corp. plans a job fair Friday.
Express bus service to and from Los Angeles is returning to the Las Vegas market this week with the launch of a new Greyhound Express route on Wednesday.
Downturns prove time and again how important it is for Nevada to diversify its economy. The state must protect itself from the effects of relying too much on one industry. When Brian Sandoval ran for governor in 2010 and took office in 2011, he made diversification a key piece of his platform. The cornerstone of his effort is broadening technology.
Helicopter-and-Harley tours add spice to experience of exploring national monument
Monday, Nov. 5, 2012
They say you can tell if a motorcyclist is happy when you see the bugs in his teeth. I’m sure I had a few in my grill when I joined a group of reporters on a picture-perfect day at the Grand Canyon trying out a new helicopter-Harley tour being offered.
Gov. Brian Sandoval received a warm reception from hundreds of businesspeople attending the first-ever Governor’s Conference on Small Business even though he told them there was plenty of work ahead before the state could consider itself recovered from the Great Recession.