The “Caesars for Danville” campaign, spearheaded by four community leaders and former Caesars CEO Tony Rodio, will work to win approval for a $400 million resort.
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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.
LVCVA executives found there would be no financial advantage to extending the completion date of the $980.3 million project, so it will be finished as planned.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority’s president and CEO said there are still several steps ahead, but that a meeting on the Monorail may be needed soon.
The joining of CuriosityStream Inc. with Software Acquisition Group Inc. of Las Vegas will enable the company to seek more investors on the Nasdaq exchange.
A marketing subcommittee recommends that the state’s Commission on Tourism should spend $300,000 encouraging Nevadans to stay at home with their tourism dollars.
The sister property to Sahara Las Vegas, also operated by The Meruelo Group, was the sixth casino property to be named in a complaint involving health and safety matters.
Deloitte & Touche LLP will replace Ernst and Young LLP, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
Barry Diller, who founded Fox Broadcasting Co. and USA Broadcasting, reportedly invested $1 billion in MGM and his company may be asked to join the board of directors.
WeChat — one of the apps President Donald Trump believes could be a national security risk — is no longer being used as a tourism guide for Chinese visitors at McCarran International Airport.
When Robert Saucier faced the Gaming Commission last month, he was battling a unanimous recommendation from the Gaming Control Board that would ban him from gaming.
In the month that casinos and resorts were allowed to reopen, leisure visitors arrived, but there were still 70.5 percent fewer of them than in June 2019, the LVCVA said.
Gaming regulators noted a gathering in excess of 50 people and a lack of social distancing enforcement at slot machines and table games in the complaint signed Monday.
Casinos in Las Vegas were closed most of the second quarter, Encore Boston Harbor was shuttered the entire quarter, while Macao endured stifling border closures.
The slot machine manufacturer’s diversity of gaming products enabled London-based IGT to outperform analysts’ expectations by 2 cents a share for the second quarter.
A sports-wagering provision was embedded in legislation in Massachusetts, but stricken from the bill, ending plans that Bay State sportsbooks would soon take bets.