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Las Vegas-based real estate development company LVXP announced Wednesday it has selected AECOM to carry out design and engineering services for the arena.
Here’s a look at how gas prices have changed in Las Vegas in the last week.
Nearly every tourism indicator climbed in April compared with last year, but the 36.3 percent increase in convention attendance stood out the most for Southern Nevada.
The UNLV study looked at rental cost burdens and discovered the Las Vegas metro area and Nevada have some of the highest costs in the entire country.
There is no debate that Station Casinos had a strong finish to 2014, giving analysts hope that recovery in the Las Vegas locals gaming market is underway. Now, the investment community may want a piece of the action.
Legalizing sports betting in the U.S. would be bad news for local street-corner bookies and the Internet’s unregulated off-shore gambling market.
If California’s Internet poker debate was an actual card game, PokerStars just doubled up. But the European online gaming giant is still short-stacked against two of the state’s largest tribal casino operators in the company’s effort to gain a piece of California’s potentially lucrative — albeit nascent — Internet poker market.
Internet gambling supporters rejoiced when the Justice Department changed its opinion on the Federal Wire Act and opened the doors for online wagering expansion across the United States.
By numbers alone, the merger of Golden Gaming and Lakes Entertainment doesn’t equal any one of the combined $18.5 billion in gaming equipment manufacturing buyouts that have happened in the past 18 months.
Over the last 18 months, Scientific Games Corp. spent $7.6 billion to acquire the gaming industry’s No. 2 and No. 3 slot machine manufacturers. That makes Scientific Games Corp. the new International Game Technology — minus the baggage.
Out of the fire and into the furnace? After implementing a partial casino smoking ban in October, Macau is now contemplating a total prohibition on smoking in all areas of the region’s gaming market.
Las Vegas is largely defined by its ability to defy expectations, and recent forecasts predicting a decline in its appeal to younger travelers are no exception. Contrary to these gloomy predictions, which suggest that an aging core visitor base might render the city’s 150,000 hotel rooms less appealing to new generations, the reality is strikingly […]
The UNLV study looked at rental cost burdens and discovered the Las Vegas metro area and Nevada have some of the highest costs in the entire country.
The Mirage volcano’s days are numbered after permits to clear the area for future construction were issued to Hard Rock contractors.
Atomic Golf confirmed it has had recent layoffs. The 100,000-square-foot, $75 million venue opened in late March at The Strat.
MGM Resorts International,has passed its goal of providing 5 million meals to the Las Vegas community and to other cities it operates resorts in well before 2025.