Pent-up demand to visit Las Vegas has boosted optimism for a strong recovery and underscored the pressing need to following ensure thousands of jobs are filled in casinos.
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“Nevada is the third most expensive behind California and Hawaii,” GasBuddy.com analyst Patrick De Haan said Friday.
Fremont Street Experience held a hiring event for its SlotZilla zip line attraction. Prospective job applicants were interviewed and then took a ride that for some ended in a job offer.
At least two Las Vegas Valley animal shelters are seeing an increase in pets surrendered at their facilities, but it’s not necessarily because people are returning to their pre-pandemic lifestyles.
Nevada’s jobless rate fell 0.1 percentage point to 8 percent in April, as thousands of workers returned to the labor force.
The Strip casino-resort said that some applicants might receive a job offer on the spot at next week’s career fair.
The cyberattack that prompted the shutdown of the East Coast’s largest fuel pipeline is unlikely to have any impact on Southern Nevada gasoline products, experts say.
McKenna Ross will cover the Southern Nevada charity and nonprofit sectors. Ross, one of the more than 300 RFA corps members this year, starts June 1.
At least one gas company, Chevron, said it is facing shortages, for some or all fuel products, at several Las Vegas Valley locations.
“The demand for everything related to home is just really strong at retail and that was apparent here,” said Bob Maricich, CEO of International Market Centers, said of the home furnishings trade show.
With conventiongoers and visitors beginning to return to Las Vegas, one restaurant at World Market Center is showing glimmers of a strong recovery.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony is being held Friday afternoon to celebrate the opening of the 315,000-square-foot Expo at World Market Center in downtown Las Vegas.
The casino-hotel said it will hold a two-day job fair to fill more than 100 seasonal positions for Adventuredome, The Midway and Splash Zone.
HCA Healthcare and the union representing 4,000 of its nurses and hospital workers in the Las Vegas Valley have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract.
U.S. rental car companies are scrambling to add new vehicles to their fleet as demand outpaces inventory. Las Vegas is seeing a spike during peak travel times.