Las Vegas hotel-casinos are offering midweek promotions to attract customers during off-peak travel times. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
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Spencer Gallagher posted his career best finish in last weekend’s NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Bristol, Tennessee. The second-year driver from Las Vegas started ninth and finished fifth. He called the impressive run a “watershed moment.” Gallagher, who struggled as rookie in 2017, has four Top 10 finishes after seven races and has yet to run outside the Top 15. Spencer Gallagher
MGM Resorts International is planning to power Las Vegas Strip casinos using solar arrays. MGM Resorts is partnering with a Chicago-based renewable developer on a new 100-megawatt photovoltaic array set to go online in 2020, about 25 miles northeast of Las Vegas. The dedicated solar array will be capable of supplying up to 90 percent of daytime demand at the company’s 13 Las Vegas casinos. The array will consist of 336,000 solar panels capable of producing enough power for about 27,000 homes. Construction is slated to start next year, and is expected to employ about 350 people during construction . All of the electricity generated by the array will go to MGM Resorts under a 20-year agreement.
Less than a year and a half after it opened, the Lucky Dragon is in bankruptcy. Developers of the off-Strip, Chinese-themed resort filed for Chapter 11 protection on Feb. 16. The bankruptcy came less than a week before the property’s scheduled foreclosure auction. Lucky Dragon was the first resort built from the ground up in Las Vegas since the recession but has faced mounting problems.
UNLV visits Colorado State at 2 p.m. Saturday The Rams will be without injured guard Prentiss Nixon Colorado State has had some highs this season The Rams have had their bumpy spots as well Colorado State looks for a spark against the Rebels
The Las Vegas Valley branch of Premium Waters expects to open a second local factory with at least 40 new jobs after the company reached capacity at its plant near the intersection of Lamb Boulevard and Cheyenne Avenue.