An estimated 356,000 out-of-town visitors are expected to join thousands of local residents for the ‘More in ‘24’ America’s party scheduled on New Year’s Eve.
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Those who ventured into Fontainebleau on the first full day it was open came away impressed with the luxury decor, art pieces, technology — and the bathrooms.
Strip attractions are slowly returning to normal from the Formula One race with trees returning to the Bellagio and a promise that gondoliers will be back in front of The Venetian by early December.
A Los Angeles record company accuses the nightclub of using YouTube to play music that it owns without paying a subscription fee.
As the Strip got back to its usual bumper-to-bumper traffic, resort executives said Formula One’s Las Vegas Grand Prix went better than they had hoped.
The LVCVA board had to approve a land preparation project before the 10 acres could be sold to 65SLVB, a partnership paying $125 million for the Riviera site.
CEO James Dolan says Las Vegas was the ideal place to open the first Sphere venue because of tourist volume.
The Nevada Taxicab Authority board approved the special temporary surcharges for the day surrounding next month’s Las Vegas Grand Prix.
MGM Resorts and Marriott International did not provide a reason for the delay. Trade publications have speculated that the cyberattack on MGM might be a factor.
The company that owns the land where the Tropicana sits may invest more than the $175 million it has committed to a ballpark for the Oakland Athletics.
Entertainment manager Rhonda Pavelko feels the family ties of Bellagio as one of the resort’s 1,221 Day 1 employees on the 25th anniversary of its opening.
From the night the doors opened Oct. 15, 1998, to today, as it prepares for the Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix, Bellagio has been a special place on the Strip.
A collaboration of Russian hacker gangs may have been responsible for MGM Resorts’ cybersecurity issue that has plagued the company. MGM is Nevada’s largest employer.
An expert in cybersecurity says it’s too early to speculate whether MGM Resorts International was the victim of hackers in a ransomware attack but there are numerous clues indicating it was.
The problem affected credit card transactions and other computerized systems. There were indications that MGM shut down some systems to prevent the matter from becoming worse.