Tasha Schwikert and Matt Sheahan each recently won a lucrative $75,000 scholarship from the Las Vegas Business Academy, a nonprofit organization founded by businessman Rino Armeni to graduate students pursuing business, hotel administration and law degrees who are “tuition challenged.”
A solar tree to power the iconic “Welcome to Las Vegas” sign should be in place by early 2014.
The Small Business Administration’s stable of lending products has played a crucial role in giving local and regional community bankers opportunities to fund real estate deals or the expansion of local businesses during the economic recovery.
The Neon Museum’s Boneyard is a collection of more than 150 signs either cast aside as obsolete by properties such as Caesars Palace or Golden Nugget or the remains of others that have disappeared, including the Sahara, Stardust and Moulin Rouge.
Alex Graham was in Denver for a recent beer show and attended a Broncos football game, where he enjoyed Colorado’s famed locally brewed craft beers. Graham, sales manager for Las Vegas microbrewery Tenaya Creek, loved that Denver’s football stadium showcased the homegrown brews.
As a kid, Dan Hamilton knew that the practice of law was “in the air and the water” of his hometown of Washington, D.C. Whether members of Congress or lobbyists, most people working on Capitol Hill had law degrees.
One Nevada Credit Union on Wednesday posted net income for the first nine months of the year that topped $5 million as the Las Vegas-based credit union continues to set aside less for potential loan losses.
More companies in Las Vegas — including Starbucks, Wendy’s, Chipotle, Darden restaurants and MGM Resorts International — are offering their employees the option of being paid with payroll debit cards that are automatically loaded with money each pay period.
More than 3,000 Culinary union members took to the Strip on Friday, blocking three lanes of traffic in front of The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.
Las Vegas has won a legal challenge to an ordinance passed in September that lets the Fremont Street Experience LLC control the placement of outdoor bars that have sprouted on the tourist attraction, but the Experience could face more fights down the road.
