The events to be held in 2024 and 2025 are expected to have a total economic impact of $139.2 million.
Richard N. Velotta
Assistant Business Editor
Email: rvelotta@reviewjournal.com
Phone: (702) 477-3893
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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.
Members of the Nevada Gaming Control Board and the Nevada Gaming Commission are all regulators, but they have different roles in establishing gaming policy in the state.
Gaming industry analysts applaud return of IGT to Nevada with $6.2 billion spinoff and merger with Everi Holdings Inc.
Chad Wild Clay and Vy Qwaint have 44 million YouTube fans between them. Now, they’ve opened an indoor theme park to bring the show to life for fans.
Meeting before the Nevada Gaming Control Board on Wednesday, operators Bally’s Corp. addressed closure times, slot machines, stained glass and employees.
Somebody is going to get to choreograph a Bellagio fountains show thanks to a long-delayed licensing partnership between MGM Resorts International and Marriott International.
In advance of March’s basketball tournaments, Circa Sports plans to open its seventh Nevada sportsbook.
Former Nevada Sen. Harry Reid — the same person for whom our airport is named — had a pivotal role in backing high-speed rail instead of an innovative maglev project.
Wynn Las Vegas execs have long thought Fontainebleau was trying to replicate the Wynn experience, even going so far as to steal some of their top employees.
The CES, World of Concrete and SHOT shows helped attract 557,200 people to Southern Nevada to boost January visitation to 3.4 million.
After an all-time record in December, Strip visitors may have bypassed January to be here for the Super Bowl and the Chinese New Year in February, the Control Board said.
Toronto-based Porter Airlines began flying to the U.S. West Coast in January and soon starts daily round-trip nonstop flights to Harry Reid International.
An IGT representative said the combined company hasn’t announced plans for the employee base or real estate owned by both IGT and Everi.
The Cromwell and Mandalay Bay have been around for a long time and have interesting backstories, including connections to two Strip tragedies.
Nevada’s gaming industry regulator discussed an incident in late January in which its public-facing website was “compromised” and briefly taken offline.
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