Thousands of origami Japanese maple leaves billow above the Aria’s main lobby to celebrate the turn of the season.
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Las Vegas is betting big on 2020, when more than 15 projects — ranging from a stadium to hotel-casino renovations — are slated to come online.
The Westgate, the resort created by legendary Las Vegas developer Kirk Kerkorian, opened 50 years ago today as the International Hotel on July 2, 1969.
The former Fontainebleau — the blue-tinted tower that has blighted the Strip for a decade — is slated to open as the Drew in the second quarter of 2022.
The next phase of the Flamingo Las Vegas’ remodeling project includes 14 new bunk bed rooms along with several bunk bed suites.
The LVCVA officially forecasts 170,750 attendees for the 2018 NFR, but that just covers the full house at the Thomas Mack for 10 performances. The conservative economic impact estimate is $113 million.
Bill Hornbuckle, an MGM executive and one of the nine members of the Las Vegas Stadium Authority board, on Thursday said his company fears that its customers would be “choked out” by people wanting to park close to the stadium on event days.
For MGM Resorts International Chairman and CEO Jim Murren, Friday was quite the New England homecoming.
Downtown Las Vegas developer Derek Stevens is planning a 777-room hotel and casino along the Fremont Street Experience, the first bottom-up resort construction project in years for downtown Las Vegas.
The conversion of MGM Resorts International’s Monte Carlo into Park MGM makes perfect sense: Why invest more than $550 million to upgrade a hotel that first opened its doors in 1996 when you can get two hotels for the price of one.
Siegel Group Nevada, Boyd Gaming, South Point and Station Casinos are offering free stays at their properties for victims of the Mandalay Bay mass shooting and/or their family members.
A woman turned a $5 bet into an IGT jackpot valued at $1.6 million on Tuesday at McCarran International Airport.
There’s no casino at Rising Star in Mesquite. No entertainers or headliners. No nightclub. Just total immersion in a sports camp.
The Tropicana Las Vegas hopes to hit a tourism bull’s-eye in July when it plays host to one of the world’s largest competitive dart competitions.
Since the Circus Circus Adventuredome’s El Loco roller coaster ride opened, its cars have traveled more than 61,000 miles — about 2½ times around the world. But MGM Resorts International is getting even more mileage from the popularity of the ride that debuted a year ago at the nation’s largest indoor theme park.
