Las Vegas isn’t on the short list of cities under consideration to host 2026 World Cup games because the cost would be too steep.
Richard N. Velotta
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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.
Thousands of Caesars Entertainment Corp. union employees will vote Thursday on a five-year labor agreement union leaders are calling the best they’ve ever had.
The Las Vegas Convention Center expansion is moving — only slightly — and it hasn’t even been built yet.
For the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority Tuesday, it was Yucca Mountain deja vu.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed sports wagering legislation Monday, and Las Vegas-based MGM Resorts International is ready to go all in.
It wasn’t until April that Southern Nevada visitors finally ended a 10-month streak in which total visitation volume was less than it was a year earlier.
Advocates for responsible gaming are worried that addictive gambling behavior could balloon with the arrival of nationwide sports wagering.
Two Las Vegas casino giants are getting closer to competing for sports wagering dollars in Atlantic City.
To recommend approval of the licensing of an Armenian entrepreneur seeking to develop software for a new sports wagering program, Nevada Gaming Control Board members first had to solve a chicken-and-egg dilemma.
The Clark County Commission on Wednesday approved plans for the $375 million Caesars Forum Meeting Center to be built just east of the High Roller observation wheel on land currently used as a parking lot.
It’s fairly easy to see the progress made by the 450 construction workers who are on the site of the $1.8 billion, 65,000-seat indoor football stadium being built in Las Vegas by a subsidiary of the Oakland Raiders.
Culinary union leaders aren’t making public any details of the tentative agreement they reached with MGM Resorts International. But they say the proposed contract “includes groundbreaking language on worker security regarding sexual harassment, workload, technology, and immigration” — and that they like the terms of the deal.
The man who has led the gaming industry’s fight to bring nationwide sports wagering across the country will become the new president and CEO of the Grocery Manufacturers Association.
Although the bingo room and two restaurants have closed and the property’s sportsbook has been downsized, the Eastside Cannery isn’t closing anytime soon.
As more and more fans catch Knights fever during the team’s remarkable Stanley Cup Playoff run, casino companies are capitalizing on the hottest ticket in town.