This New Year’s Eve will mark a first for the Metropolitan Police Department: the first time it will use drones to monitor one of the largest New Year’s gatherings in the United States.
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The best, last-minute deals for three nights in Las Vegas for the New Year holiday will cost more than $500, according to Booking.com and hotel websites.
Location-based VR startup The Void is getting ready to open two additional locations in early 2018: The startup will open new Void Experience Centers in the Grand Canal Shoppes at The Venetian in Las Vegas as well as in the Glendale Galleria in Glendale, CA early next year, it announced Tuesday.
When partiers prepare to greet 2018 on the Strip, they’ll see a vanguard of soldiers and police officers — more than the number ever assembled for New Year’s security in previous years.
Plans recently filed with Clark County show that the project, by casino operator Las Vegas Sands Corp. and sports and entertainment firm Madison Square Garden Co., would span 593,750 square feet, bigger than what was announced last year.
The Kats! Bureau at this writing is a tent just west of the Strip, near Russell Road, with Delano and Mandalay Bay gleaming in the background. This is the current site for, and future home of, the Las Vegas Raiders.
Outdoor music venues like Las Vegas Village, where a gunman massacred concert-goers Sunday night, are open targets. Don’t expect such sites to be razed and replaced anytime soon, experts say.
Seeking to address the question, “Does the company that owns Bellagio also own Circus Circus?” MGM Resorts is launching its “Welcome To The Show” marketing campaign.
Circus Circus is looking for creepy clowns, monsters and ghosts for hire.
Sam Nazarian’s sbe Entertainment says it is still committed to merging with Hakkasan Group even as months pass without a deal.
About 6,000 singers doo-wopped and teedle-dummed at the Barbershop Harmony Society’s weeklong convention, where quartets and choruses competed for the international championship and hobbyists made friends and formed impromptu quartets.
The Tejano National Convention celebrated its 14th year this weekend at Paris Las Vegas, with more than 50 performers, traditional Mexican food (including Menudo soup) and numerous booths to meet and talk with artists.
Caesars Entertainment Corp. has opened North America’s largest soundstage just off the Las Vegas Strip to lure production companies to the desert.
When was the last time you looked down while walking through a casino?
Party seekers from across the country with loud hair, bright makeup and eccentric fashions will descend on Las Vegas for the annual Electric Daisy Carnival next week.
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