A crowd of 330,000 visitors filled the Las Vegas Strip and Fremont Street downtown to celebrate the dawn of 2018. The massive outdoor parties unfolded in the shadow of the Oct. 1 mass shooting that left 58 people dead.
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A reminder for those heading out to New Year’s Eve parties tonight: The Strip and the roads leading to have closed.
It’s nearly go-time for Las Vegas’ biggest party, welcoming 330,000 out-of-town revelers to celebrate the arrival of the new year on the Las Vegas Strip and downtown.
Organizers of the Vegas Strong Benefit Concert announced Wednesday that the show raised more than $700,000 for victims of the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting .
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.
Snipers and spotters will be part of an increased Las Vegas police presence keeping watch over New Year’s Eve festivities this weekend.
Joe Isidori, Chris Barish and their team have been racing to put the finishing touches on their new restaurant — Black Tap at The Venetian — to open in time for New Year’s Eve revelers.
What has 12 bands, more than 80,000 firework devices and some 330,000 guests from all over the world?
The FBI will bring in about 100 people from outside the Las Vegas area to increase its presence during New Year’s Eve, the agency’s Las Vegas chief said Wednesday.
Alexxa’s, an upscale watering hole expected to open in early January, is the brainchild of Matt Silverman and Matt Piekarski, the creative forces behind the Hexx line of bean-to-bar chocolate as well as the Hexx restaurant and its upstairs neighbor Beer Park.
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.
Keely Smith, a pop and jazz singer known for her solo recordings of jazz standards as well as her musical partnership with Louis Prima, has died of apparent heart failure in Palm Springs. She was 89.
The extensive Palazzo renovations are finally starting to bear fruit, this week in the form of new cocktail lounge Rosina. Sam Ross and David Rabin, have created a more personal experience this time around.
The 10,000-square-foot attraction features an event room, a gift shop, a wedding chapel, arcade games and four bowling lanes, but it’s the “Twilight Zone” props and scenes painted on the walls in glorious black-light black-and-white that’ll most vividly jog fans’ memories.
