Nevada’s gaming industry ended its three-month string of billion-dollar monthly wins, but continued to produce stellar numbers in April.
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.
Fourteen former hair stylists and nail technicians at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas’ Violet Hour salon have filed a lawsuit inClark County District Court against the resort’s parent company.
Executives in boardrooms across the gaming industry had to be smiling when first-quarter results began rolling in. Shareholders, too.
High atop the list of gaming companies to keep an eye on is Eldorado Resorts, a Reno company that has quietly become a force in the regional gaming industry.
While most of the focus on the planned $1.8 billion, 65,000-seat Las Vegas stadium is focused on the construction site at Interstate 15 and Russell Road, the Las Vegas Stadium Authority continues to monitor agreements it has reached with the stadium’s builders, the Oakland Raiders.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority board of directors on Thursday approved a $359.8 million operating budget that also continues the process of building a $1.4 billion expansion to the Las Vegas Convention Center.
The stadium authority board unanimously approved a $546.3 million budget for the 2018-19 fiscal year and a collection of amended agreements designed to better account for funding of the $1.8 billion, 65,000-seat indoor stadium under construction at Interstate 15 and Russell Road.
The presidential debate staged at the Thomas Mack Center on Oct. 19, 2016, produced media value estimated at $114 million. Assigning a value to this miracle season of the Vegas Golden Knights is a bit more complicated.
IGT, the world’s dominant slot-machine manufacturer, is ready to jump into the promising sports-wagering business in the United States.
The new 30- and 60-second “Only Vegas Moments” ads were produced by Las Vegas-based RR Partners, the authority’s advertising consultant, and were cut from a series of short YouTube movies about “adult freedom.”
As the dust settles on this past week’s historic Supreme Court announcement involving sports wagering — which everybody was fully expecting, by the way — we’re starting to see how plans to capitalize on nationwide sports wagering will shake out.
A new Las Vegas Strip concert venue is slated to offer guests technology that will allow them to feel the music.
You thought you only found card sharks in casinos. Don’t be alarmed when you’re confronted with a 13-foot tiger shark prominently displayed at the Unknown, the Palms’ new center bar that opened Thursday night.
Can a gaming licensee lease a building from a businessman who also rents to someone in the marijuana business? Yes, the Nevada Gaming Commission unanimously determined Thursday.
Hilton’s Waldorf Astoria luxury brand expects to plant its flag on the Strip when it takes over operation of the 392-room Mandarin Oriental at CityCenter in August.
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