Is the spread of casino gambling across the United States killing Las Vegas? No, the numbers say.
Richard N. Velotta
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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.
The state Gaming Control Board on Thursday said state win — the amount casinos ultimately take from gamblers — hit $999.7 million for the month, 4.1 percent more than in December 2017.
The company’s Total Rewards program will be known as Caesars Rewards as of Friday, company officials said Wednesday. The name change was first announced in December.
If Wynn Resorts Ltd. CEO Matt Maddox is nervous about upcoming meetings with regulators in Las Vegas and Boston, he didn’t show it Wednesday.
The third phase of PSL sales — the least expensive in the building with a range of between $500 and $3,900 per seat — are mostly in the highest levels of the stadium.
Virgin Trains USA LLC, the company that intends to build and operate a high-speed rail line between Southern California and Las Vegas, launched an initial public offering Wednesday.
Although the former chairman and CEO of Wynn Resorts Ltd. wasn’t singled out to be disciplined in a state Gaming Control Board complaint issued Monday against Wynn Las Vegas and Wynn Resorts Ltd., it doesn’t mean he escaped punishment.
A new convention center in downtown Las Vegas will provide exhibit space for the twice-a-year World Market as well as room for trade shows and community events displaced by the 2017 closure of Cashman Center.
Las Vegas Strip resort neighbors resort neighbors reached an out-of-court settlement on trademark infringement claims that Wynn Resorts Ltd. raised against the $4 billion Resorts World Las Vegas project.
Caesars Entertainment Corp. is building its first non-gaming hotel in the United States in Scottsdale, Arizona.
More than 50,000 designers, buyers and sellers in the home decor, furnishings, gift and apparel markets arrive in Southern Nevada on Sunday for downtown’s largest business trade show, Las Vegas Winter Market.
At 15 properties across the nationwide Caesars empire, the company will break out 16,000 Super Bowl shirts and hats, have NFL wall decor and ice sculptures, wrist bands, cookies and all sorts of logo gear featuring the New England Patriots and the Los Angeles Rams.
The Nevada Gaming Commission conducted some early spring cleaning Thursday, unanimously adopting a series of amendments to five regulations involving sports wagering.
The first opportunity to host is in 2025 and the $1.8 billion stadium will have been open five years by then. Raiders President Marc Badain said the team will lead the charge to bring the game to Southern Nevada then.
The hearing on March 4 in a Clark County District Court will consider a motion to dismiss a complaint by former Wynn Resorts Chairman Steve Wynn against the Massachusetts Gaming Commission’s lead investigator.
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