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.
Competing with the larger Foxwoods hotel-casino operated by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe about 20 minutes away, Mohegan Sun will face new competitivepressures with last month’s opening of MGM Springfield in Massachusetts and next June’s planned opening of Encore Boston Harbor.
It’s game on for a new era of casino competition in New England.
The $2.5 billion luxury hotel under construction in the Boston suburb of Everett has been at the center of controversy since February when former Wynn Resorts Ltd. Chairman and CEO Steve Wynn resigned.
Some commissioners believe the company needs to have its license revoked, effectively running the operator of eight Southern Nevada sports books out of business.
State casino gaming win showed its first decline in six months in July on a tough comparison against last year, the Nevada Gaming Control Board reported Thursday.
The first nonstop flights by a U.S.-based air carrier from McCarran International Airport to Mexico were announced Tuesday by Frontier Airlines.
The Clark County Commission will consider the team’s plan at a Sept. 5 meeting.
The company on Monday announced the renewed program is now available at the company’s recently acquired Aliante and Cannery properties in Las Vegas and at other Boyd casinos nationwide.
For MGM Resorts International Chairman and CEO Jim Murren, Friday was quite the New England homecoming.
This should be the week we get some answers to one of Southern Nevada’s biggest mysteries: Where will the thousands of people attending events at the new Las Vegas stadium park their cars?
A parade of MGM employees trailing a Springfield Police Department motorcycle escort led customers into the $960 million property that is MGM’s 28th casino resort and the state’s first casino-hotel on Friday morning.
Nevada’s largest casino industry employer is preparing to enter the potentially lucrative New England market when the doors of its $960 million property open Friday at 11 a.m., local time.
The Nevada Gaming Commission on Thursday will consider placing Joseph Whit Moody on the list of excluded persons, commonly called the “black book.”
The Nevada Gaming Commission will consider levying a $250,000 fine against the company for four violations alleged by the state Gaming Control Board.
The aviation industry is growing, but historic dynamics to forecast where and how it will grow no longer apply because there are many new variables affecting it, an aviation expert said Monday.
