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Richard N. Velotta
Assistant Business Editor
Email: rvelotta@reviewjournal.com
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Richard N. “Rick” Velotta has covered business, the gaming industry, tourism, transportation and aviation in Las Vegas for 25 years. A former reporter and editor with the Las Vegas Sun, the Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner, the Arizona Daily Sun in Flagstaff and the Aurora (Colo.) Sun, Velotta is a graduate of Northern Arizona University where he won the school’s top journalism honor. He became the Review-Journal's assistant business editor in September 2018.
The Las Vegas Strip casino operator said it was pleased with its figures for the second quarter, and it is looking forward to opening a new resort in the United Arab Emirates.
Las Vegas Sands Corp. is working with the Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth on the summit, scheduled Nov. 14 at downtown Las Vegas’ Historic Fifth Street School.
A policy change made it more difficult for Nevada resorts to hire armed security guards. But a regulatory change approved in November has eliminated that problem.
Nevada lawmakers wanted to remove mobsters from the state’s casinos in the 1960s to begin an era of corporate ownership so organized crime populated the first ‘Black Book.’
Among the most notorious people on the List of Excluded Persons are a former Gaming Control Board computer expert, a game “fixer” and the wife of a mob associate.
You can check flight times and gates on the digital information boards at Harry Reid International Airport. Soon, you’ll also be able to see TSA wait times.
The Chinese computer technology company’s CEO will discuss technology’s connections to Formula 1 and the FIFA World Cup soccer tournament next summer.
She’s concerned about potential conflicts the KalshiEx LLC board member would have regulating commodities markets.
The Las Vegas-based parent company of Allegiant Air is also selling its money-losing Sunseeker resort in southwest Florida.
Fontainebleau rolls out new summer deals, and other gaming industry news.
Former Wynn cocktail waitress Tiare Ramirez had a choice between taking a $27,000 payment or taking her chances in a new trial focusing on the $321,200 jury award.
With three public scoping meetings completed, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Bureau of Land Management and a consultant must next work on the EIS report.
The small locals casino, which has operated since 1974, will end jobs for 126 employees when it closes.
A group of environmental activists, many of them costumed as desert animals, questioned the need for the Southern Nevada Supplemental Airport Wednesday.