On Sunday, the El Cortez turns 80 years old, 29,220 days since it first opened its doors Nov. 7, 1941. The hotel-casino will punctuate its birthday weekend with a fireworks show.
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The initiative’s founders at UNLV’s International Gaming Institute hope to better define the lines between safe and unsafe gambling, identify potential policy gaps and apply research to real-world settings.
Officials with the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians offered details about its plans for the Palms for the first time since announcing a $650-million deal to buy the property in May.
The company plans to build a 211-room hotel with an 83,178-square-foot casino on South Durango Drive, just south of the 215 Beltway.
Gaming manufacturers are working to advance the table game experience, as the innovative products at the Global Gaming Expo revealed Tuesday.
Longtime MGM Resorts International executive Cynthia Kiser Murphey is the new general manager of the Palms, the off-Strip resort acquired by the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians.
Hotel guests will pay a pretty penny for any room downtown this weekend as the three-day Life is Beautiful music and arts festival makes its return to Las Vegas.
Signs of Las Vegas’ economic revival are hard to miss these days, but the workforce that supports the economy has yet to see that same rebound.
Aruze’s Go Go Claw gambling game looks and plays a lot like an arcade crane machine. But don’t expect to win a stuffed animal or boxed electronic item. The prize for a successful treasure grab is cash.
The Boyd Gaming-owned downtown hotel-casino will reopen its doors to the public on Sept. 8 for the first time since March 2020, according to a release.
Historians say the origins and past of Railroad Pass tie into many developments that helped turn Southern Nevada into what it is today.
Station Casinos executives shared some new information about plans for a long-awaited project in the southwest valley during an earnings call Wednesday.
Main Street Station’s parent company, Boyd Gaming, is looking at possibly reopening the downtown Las Vegas hotel-casino later this year.
It’s the first major holiday weekend since COVID-19 restrictions on capacity, gatherings and crowd sizes were lifted across the state in June.
The last time Nevada casinos won more than $1 billion three months in a row was from December 2019 to February 2020.
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