Smith’s Food & Drug on Tuesday began limiting even more the number of customers who can be in its Southern Nevada stores at one time.
Richard N. Velotta
Richard N. “Rick” Velotta has covered business, the gaming industry, tourism, transportation and aviation in Las Vegas for 25 years. A former reporter and editor with the Las Vegas Sun, the Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner, the Arizona Daily Sun in Flagstaff and the Aurora (Colo.) Sun, Velotta is a graduate of Northern Arizona University where he won the school’s top journalism honor. He became the Review-Journal's assistant business editor in September 2018.
Horst Dziura, who helped transform nongaming amenities into profit centers and transformed the Flamingo Hilton into a resort for the middle market, died March 17 after a long illness. He was 79.
The city’s resorts have good reasons to decline sheltering the homeless during the coronavirus outbreak, even though 150,000 hotel rooms will be empty over the next four weeks.
Full- and part-time workers at third-party eateries will be paid by the resort operator during the state-ordered coronavirus closure.
The five-member Massachusetts Gaming Commission voted unanimously Friday to extend Gov. Charlie Baker’s casino closure order, which had been set to expire Tuesday, to May 4 at noon.
AGA President and CEO Bill Miller is calling on SBA leadership to modify regulations that would make one-third of small gaming companies ineligible for CARES relief.
Coronavirus quarantines and border restrictions are continuing to take their toll on casinos in Macao with March gross gaming revenue down 79.7% and the quarter off 60%.
Casino industry analysts say the coronavirus outbreak won’t kill the merger deal between Eldorado Resorts and Caesars Entertainment, but the delay could up the price tag.
Eight executives with Caesars Entertainment Corp. acquired more than a half-million dollars of company stock, according to a series of SEC filings Tuesday.
The operator of The Venetian is flying in medical equipment from China to protect health care workers and first responders from the novel coronavirus.
Most Las Vegas gaming and tourism companies went from a 52-week high early this year to a 52-week low on March 18 with the closure of the state’s casinos.
The 1,100 workers at the Las Vegas Convention Center expansion — all observing coronavirus protocols — have begun pouring the concrete floor of the exhibit hall.
As National Problem Gambling Awareness Month comes to a close, responsible gaming advocates are fearful that the nation’s casino closures could lead to other problems.
In a bid to survive the financial turmoil of the coronavirus shutdown affecting 41 properties, Penn National Gaming will furlough 26,000 employees nationwide.
Casino companies up and down the Strip are using different strategies to save money where possible in a bid to weather the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.