This December, high-end retailers on the Strip are celebrating the end of 2012 with hopes of huge sales.
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The threat of a weekend taxi strike was averted Friday when Las Vegas’ second largest cab company and its drivers’ union agreed to extend the current contract until Jan. 31.
In a tourist town with 24-hour drinking, it’s easy to see why Las Vegas is No. 4 among U.S. cities where people think they’re most likely to get into an accident with a rental car.
Southern Nevada, your spring sports events calendar is filling up fast.
After four years of scouting fanfest events at the Super Bowl and NBA and Major League Baseball All-Star Games, Las Vegas Events rolled out its own interactive Cowboy FanFest this week to give rodeo fans a chance to chat with sport superstars such as Trevor Brazile, compete in an offbeat Redneck Rodeo and allow kids to do mutton bustin’ in a replica NFR arena.
Union drivers at Las Vegas’ second-largest taxi cab company have voted to authorize a strike, although it would not start until Dec. 16 at the earliest.
Many rodeo aficionados have made the South Point and its Equestrian Center their home base for the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo and satellite events.
With its captive audience of about 40 million people a year, McCarran International Airport is popularly regarded as an arena where retailers can set the shop on auto pilot while raking in profits.
SPARKS – With Nevada’s unemployment at its lowest level in more than three years, Gov. Brian Sandoval said at an annual tourism conference Tuesday that he is confident the state’s economic rebound is gaining steam, but believes challenges remain.
The New York investment firm Dahlman Rose & Co. confirmed on Monday that it has been retained by the Las Vegas Railway Express as a financial adviser.