One of the world’s biggest e-commerce companies will buy Southern Nevada’s best-known Internet retailer, but executives say the deal won’t change the corporate culture behind one of the city’s best places to work.
Gambling revenue at the Golden Nugget properties in Las Vegas and Laughlin fell 15.1 percent to $56.5 million in the second quarter, and management blamed the decline on competitors and an unwillingness by customers to spend money.
Two weeks after imposing a heavy fine against a Strip casino for not properly controlling illegal activity inside a nightclub on the property, state gaming regulators let gaming licensees know they have other concerns about how casinos are operating.
CARSON CITY — Politicians from Nevada and Florida expressed outrage today at a report that some federal agencies have put the two tourist hotspots in the states on a “blacklist” when deciding where to hold conferences or meetings.
Nevada Gov. Jim Gibbons called the reported blacklist “an outrageous insult to the working families in Nevada” and urged the state’s congressional delegation to press President Barack Obama for a change in such policies.
Las Vegas is on pace for 40,000 existing home sales and 5,000 new home sales in 2009, but a second wave of foreclosures will continue to put downward pressure on pricing through the end of the year, housing analyst Larry Murphy said today at his quarterly Crystal Ball seminar.
Prive, the nightclub that cost Planet Hollywood Resort a $500,000 fine today, was denied a liquor license and ordered to cease operations by midnight Tuesday for failing to “abide by the duties of a liquor licensee,” the county’s Business License Department announced.
Prive’s ultralounge, the Living Room, which is owned by the same company as Prive, was ordered to cease all business operations by midnight July 30.
The Clark County School District in 2008-09 failed for the fourth time in seven years to meet federal standards for educating its students. The district will suffer no sanctions as a result, but the poor performance does open it to more public criticism. School district officials released the results for each school and the district itself today.
Owners of the Golden Nugget will soon take room reservations for the new Rush Tower, the first significant infusion of rooms to the downtown Las Vegas gambling market in decades.