Las Vegas Sands, Genting’s Resorts World, MGM Resorts, Wynn Resorts, Bally’s and Hard Rock International are expected to make plays for new New York gaming licenses.
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 LVCVA will offer free parking at convention center lots during the NFL Draft, but it is facing higher costs to stage the event.
With automated operations on the horizon and an expansion of the system through the resort corridor, board members voted to shorten the length of a Boring Co. contract.
Meetings planners, resorts, developers, government leaders and regulators need to have a unified strategy to keep gaming revenue growing.
Zappos.com has officially named Scott Schaefer as CEO, a role he has held on an acting basis since December.
For 26 years, Las Vegas has been the leading destination for meetings, conventions and trade shows and a group of local resort executives intend to keep it that way.
The political action committee working on behalf of the company officially halted work to put a gambling question on Florida’s November ballot.
After a brief hearing, executives of Caesars Entertainment-owned William Hill received preliminary approval to operate at the Palms, which will reopen its doors April 27.
Ojos Locos Sports Cantina will offer its biggest restaurant in the country when the renovation at the Lucky Club in North Las Vegas is completed in December.
Some resorts are asking more than $1,000 a night to stay during the first of two BTS concert weekends and for the NFL Draft at the end of the month.
Am American Gaming Association report indicates other states around the country are experiencing the same lift Nevada has received for January and February.
The off-Strip property, purchased by the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, has been closed since the March 2020 COVID shutdown.
BetMGM and Caesars Sportsbook began taking bets Monday in Ontario, home of Canada’s largest city, Toronto, in a market that could have more than 30 competitors.
Fans of the South Korean K-pop group are coming to Las Vegas with money in their pockets and philanthropy in their hearts.
Even though the game is nearly two years away, Steve Hill and the Super Bowl Host Committee got a head start on planning for the NFL’s biggest showcase here in 2024.
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