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.
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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.
The $2 billion nightclub industry sets its sights on New Year’s with a laser focus, but it’s not only clubs vying for consumers’ late-night entertainment dollars. Concert venues, too, are playing the Las Vegas New Year’s Eve field in a big way.
After recently rejecting a new contract, union drivers at Las Vegas’ second-largest taxicab company will conduct a strike authorization vote starting this morning and running continuously through Thursday afternoon.
The slide in passenger traffic at McCarran International Airport continued in October with little hope of a turnaround soon.
Negotiators for the Transport Workers Union tried to settle a large majority of the issues for the initial contract covering Allegiant Travel Co. flight attendants in September before calling in top executives to seal the deal.
British tour company Thomas Cook on Thursday assigned part of the blame for a weekend charter flight from Manchester, England, that landed about 32 hours late at McCarran International Airport, on the local U.S. Customs and Border Protection outpost.
Gasoline prices are falling in Nevada after swinging sharply in recent months, AAA Nevada said Tuesday.
Thus far, fiscal 2013 is looking sluggish for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.
Las Vegas’ September visitation rose 1.8 percent year-to-date, bringing the total number of 2012 visitors thus far to 30.1 million.
As he dealt with the always-growing list of details that comes with opening a new store, Christian Haase let slip the one confession that no one wants to hear in an airport.