The major leagues of car racing comes to Las Vegas next weekend. So race organizers rolled out former mayor and NASCAR fan Oscar Goodman along with Las Vegas native and big-time racer Kurt Busch on Thursday to extol the economic virtues of hosting a NASCAR race.
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Fulfilling predictions that the year would start slowly, passenger traffic at McCarran International Airport dipped slightly in January.
After months of talks that went nowhere, the drivers union at Las Vegas’ second-largest cab company has set the industry’s first strike in nearly two decades.
The slogan may sound catchy — “The Madness Begins Here” — but the ad firm for Las Vegas’ public tourism agency doesn’t want to legally poke the bear known as the NCAA.
The high command of the union representing drivers at Las Vegas’ second-largest cab company has consented to a strike in the face of growing driver impatience.
The Nevada Taxicab Authority turned down a requests on Tuesday for extra operating permits for three major events in March and April as several dozen drivers turned out for their most vocal protest in months.
A $2.5 billion project to re-create the Las Vegas Convention Center and the surrounding area was given the green light Tuesday.
Wynn Resorts Ltd. and Restaurant Guy Savoy are among the 2013 Forbes Five-Star Award winners.
Gambling and boozing in downtown Las Vegas is history.
“The Madness Begins Here.” That’s the catchy new slogan aimed at creating more buzz for basketball in Las Vegas during the frenzied month of March, when Sin City will host an unprecedented four college conference tournaments in three arenas,
Despite years of agonizing about taxi drivers who long haul unsuspecting tourists, the Nevada Taxicab Authority came across a contingent that didn’t care during its most recent two-day crackdown.
Time gets away from all of us at one point or another.
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A federal court has dealt a blow to the business arm of a northern Arizona tribe that owns the Grand Canyon Skywalk by upholding a $28.5 million judgment in favor of a Las Vegas developer who invested the money to build the horseshoe-shaped glass bridge on tribal land.
DALLAS — US Airways CEO Doug Parker has landed the big merger he sought for years. Now the soon-to-be CEO of the new American Airlines has to make it work.
The UNLV effort to build a 60,000-seat domed stadium has a $360 million commitment from Majestic Realty but is facing stiff opposition from MGM Resorts International, which owns 10 hotel-casinos on the Strip. The company had pledged a $20 million donation to the project but on Wednesday issued a statement opposing the $900 million venue.