The Las Vegas Review-Journal takes a look at the top moments from 2016.
Local Las Vegas
Las Vegas breaking news from Nevada's most reliable source. Read about the latest updates happening in Las Vegas at reviewjournal.com.
A long-awaited vote on a bill that would increase hotel room taxes to fund a domed stadium and improvements to the Las Vegas Convention Center failed to materialize early Friday morning after a 17-hour Assembly session.
Critics of a proposed $1.9 billion, 65,000-seat domed football stadium say they want a better deal for Southern Nevadans if tax dollars are used to help fund construction, but an influential casino lobbying group joined the debate Wednesday by saying stadium developers and government officials have covered all areas of concern.
Hundreds of Riviera fans, insomniacs or people who just enjoy the sight and sound of a big building being brought down gathered around the Riviera Tuesday morning to give it a send-off into history.
Las Vegas bid a bittersweet goodbye to the Riviera early Tuesday morning, as the historic hotel’s Monaco tower came crashing down to make way for expanded convention facilities.
Private investigators hired by the owner of a Southern Nevada taxi company secretly recorded ride solicitations on cellphone video, catching 10 contracted ride-hailing drivers accepting illegal rides for cash.
A new solar plant that can store the sun’s energy and generate power day or night is now in full commercial operation outside of Tonopah.
The PBR, the Professional Bull Riders, will produce and promote a rodeo and a headline bull riding event as part of Las Vegas Helldorado Days in May, joining forces with local groups to celebrate the city’s Western roots.
By the time the first Faraday Future rolls off the assembly line at the company’s 3 million-square-foot automobile plant at North Las Vegas’ Apex Industrial Park in late 2017, a large portion of the company’s 4,500 employees will be furnishing their new homes, buying groceries and living the Southern Nevada lifestyle.
Former Bellagio craps dealer James R. Cooper Jr. pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of felony theft for his role in what prosecutors described as a two-year, $1 million craps scheme.
Less than a year after meeting at the library, DeMarkest, 36, and Giles Kelly-Brooks, 39, of Las Vegas, wed on Sept. 17 in a small ceremony in Sunset Park.
To say that four men who pulled more than $1 million from Bellagio craps tables defied the odds would be something of an understatement. The chances that they legitimately won as much as they did in one of their many sessions over the course of two years: 452 billion-to-1.
Grocery operator Haggen, which entered the Las Vegas market in June, plans to close seven local stores by the end of the this year.
The Mike Tyson Bitcoin ATM will bridge the gap between Bitcoin users and mainstream pop culture by providing consumers with the ability to use cash to purchase bitcoins instantaneously through their mobile devices. The Bitcoin ATM will be the first celebrity-sponsored Bitcoin product to date.
InterDrone, the International Drone Conference and Exposition at The Rio in Las Vegas, gathered over 3,000 attendees including drone builders, flyers and buyer and more than 85 industry-leading exhibitors (including DJI and 3DR).
