Former NBA star Antoine Walker will pay more than $12,800 a month to the Clark County District Attorney’s bad check program in order to make good on gambling markers totaling more than $900,000.
When the College of Southern Nevada on Monday morning opened registration for a new slate of classes scheduled for midnight, the response was swift and overwhelming.
Sen. John Ensign on Monday denied breaking the law to cover up an extramarital affair with a former employee and said he’s “very fortunate to have a forgiving wife.”
A story Saturday incorrectly stated the meaning of the Regional Transportation Commission’s 18b sign on Casino Center Drive. The sign represents the 18 blocks that make up the Arts District.
And so it begins. When the nearly 1,500-room nongaming Vdara hotel welcomes its first paying customers late tonight, the $8.5 billion CityCenter development moves into its operation mode. Finally.
The Strip project will open in phases this month after more than five years of development and construction. The 500,000-square-foot Crystals opens Thursday, and the 392-room Mandarin Oriental opens to customers Saturday. Aria, CityCenter’s centerpiece 4,004-room hotel-casino, opens Dec. 16.
The reunited Cranberries play the Palms on Thursday, after a long hiatus. Singer Dolores O’Riordan tells me the band always worked well together but never hung out socially.
Name the story, and there’s almost always a Las Vegas connection. When it comes to crime, what happens here often reverberates nationwide, whether the subject is money laundering, human trafficking or even mortgage fraud.
Under pressure from both private citizens and local health officials, state public health authorities might decide as soon as Wednesday to offer the H1N1 flu vaccine to all Nevadans.
CARSON CITY — Gov. Jim Gibbons accused legislators Monday of putting jobless benefits for 120,000 Nevadans in jeopardy and pledged to issue an emergency declaration to fix the problem.
Gaming stocks were sluggish in November as investors tried to judge the repercussions of third-quarter results and anticipate the effect the opening of CityCenter will have on the Strip.
An initial public stock offering in a subsidiary of Las Vegas Sands Corp. hit a snag Monday when shares tumbled 10.2 percent on their first day of trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
Harrah’s Entertainment has taken another step forward in its plan to buy Planet Hollywood Resort, a plan the resort’s current owner called a “perfect marriage.”
The owner of the long-troubled Binion’s Gambling Hall & Hotel is closing the property’s 365 hotel rooms indefinitely and will cut nearly 100 of the property’s 800 jobs.
LOS ANGELES — Dubai World borrowed billions of dollars to acquire some of the most high-profile commercial developments in the United States in recent years, and it could be forced to sell them at a loss if the Persian Gulf conglomerate can’t restructure its debts.