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.
“Skill-based slot machines have not gained significant popularity on the casino floor but there are still innovators developing these types of games to gain better traction with a younger demographic,” Nevada Gaming Control Board Chairwoman Sandra Morgan said.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority will sell the 10 acres where the Riviera once stood, the organization’s top executive said Thursday.
State gaming regulators will review the impact the Justice Department’s new interpretation of the Wire Act will have on the industry in Nevada.
The new infrastructure being built in Las Vegas is destined to fill the few open slots on the city’s calendar of events in the years ahead, a panel at UNLV concurred.
On Wednesday, the Massachusetts Gaming Commission unanimously voted for its legal team to settle a lawsuit filed against it by former Wynn Resorts CEO Steve Wynn.
Whether Oscar betting is successful enough to become an annual New Jersey staple and whether Nevada sports books would ever attempt taking those bets are open questions.
A Massachusetts company is using Wynn Resorts Ltd.’s planned settlement of a Nevada complaint as evidence that it was unsuitable for a gaming license and shouldn’t have been picked to build a resort near Boston.
It shouldn’t be that shocking to learn that from July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2018, 289 Nevada casinos that annually gross more than $1 million in gaming revenue lost a total of $1.168 billion.
MGM Resorts International CEO Jim Murren on Wednesday criticized the “perplexing” Justice Department Wire Act reinterpretation and made a case forhis company landing a gaming concession in Osaka, Japan.
GameCo has been licensed in New Jersey and now wants to bring its portfolio of video games to Nevada’s casino floors.
Station Casinos executives are more confident than ever in the Las Vegas locals market, reporting on Tuesday the company’s best fourth-quarter net revenue and adjusted cash flow in more than a decade.
The Las Vegas Ballpark will have some cool seats — much cooler than the metal bench seats of Cashman Field.
The LVCVA board of directors on Tuesday will consider a request from President and CEO Steve Hill to pay an estimated $113,000 in compensation to Luke Puschnig and start the process of recruiting a new attorney to serve the LVCVA and its board.
Lexicon Bank is raising capital to become the first new community bank in Southern Nevada in a decade.
The National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement recently sponsored a panel on whether the criminal element could infiltrate the gamingindustry’s new toy: nationwide sports wagering.
