Commissioners on Thursday officially rescinded a commission order from August 1985 prohibiting licensed sportsbooks from accepting wagers on pro baseball teams based in Nevada or on pro baseball games played in the state.
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.
Nevada’s gaming win in February was flat, but still topped the $1 billion mark, the state Gaming Control Board reported Thursday.
The long-awaited adjudicatory hearing to determine the suitability of Wynn Resorts Ltd. to operate a $2.6 billion casino in Everett, Massachusetts, is scheduled next week in Boston.
Dennis Mathews doesn’t mind kids running around his arcade, creating havoc in the Red Rock Bowling Center.
Alan Feldman, an MGM Resorts International executive who has spent nearly three decades as the top spokesman for the Las Vegas-based casino giant, will transition from full-time employee to adviser on June 1.
Developers of the Las Vegas Stadium will have a record of the location of every pipe, conduit and light switch thanks to new digital tools.
All things considered, the Raiders’ relationship with the city and state has been a good one, and several reports Thursday enumerated some of the positives that already have emerged.
Three economic experts shared their views of what could be in store for Las Vegas in a 90-minute presentation before the Economic Club of Las Vegas Friday at Bali Hai.
Stadium Company Chief Operating Officer Don Webb assured everyone nothing had changed on the completion date and that everything was still on schedule despite some recent snags in the delivery of steel components to the stadium site.
Las Vegas-based Allegiant Travel Co. entered a new era for the company Tuesday, breaking ground on a resort in Punta Gorda, Florida, with nearly 700 rooms and suites.
The union is hoping pickets at Palms partner companies would persuade them to leverage their business relationships to convince the Palms to re-enter negotiations. Federal labor law allows “secondary picketing.”
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority could turn its attention to working with desirable international airports as well as airlines to market Las Vegas as a destination.
Australia-based slot machine manufacturer Aristocrat Technologies, which opened a $45 million campus in Summerlin in December, is downsizing its design and development division worldwide.
Three members of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority’s board of directors brought some healthy skepticism to last week’s meeting at which the board gave the go-ahead for an underground transit system.
Attorneys for Las Vegas Sands Corp. and Hong Kong businessman Richard Suen on Thursday settled Suen’s 14-year-old legal dispute over his compensation for assisting the company secure a license in Macau.