The busiest carrier at Harry Reid International Airport says the new daily nonstop flights will be a part of the new “redeye” schedule with tickets going on sale next week.
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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.
IGT is viewing the 2025 Global Gaming Expo at The Venetian next week as a homecoming for the company’s headquarters to Las Vegas from London.
Tony Alamo, a longtime education advocate that has a Las Vegas elementary school named for him, was father to a former Nevada Gaming Commission chairman.
New lawsuits say cyberattack against the Las Vegas casino company occurred earlier in the month and Boyd has delayed informing victims about details of the data breach.
After two bankruptcy filings, the airline sent a WARN notice announcing that nearly 400 Las Vegas-based flight attendants will be furloughed.
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The plaintiff hopes the lawsuit will become a class action and accuses the company of failing to protect personal information from cybercriminals.
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The approval of amendments to gaming regulations on private salons wasn’t the slam dunk many experts thought they would be, but approval came after an hour of debate.
Nearly every Southern Nevada gaming submarket was up in August with Laughlin showing a double-digit percentage increase over last year and the Strip up 5.5 percent.
Reno-based Truckee Gaming LLC says the improvements coming to the decades-old North Las Vegas casino will make it “a good home for (customers) to come back to.”
A newly licensed MGM Resorts executive also told regulators about how the Las Vegas casino operator is still working with the FBI on the cyberattack it suffered in 2023.
The Spirit Airlines bankruptcy filing and a big downturn in passengers from Canada continued to plague Las Vegas’ Harry Reid International Airport through the end of summer.
Boyd Gaming says it won’t comment on the recent cyberattack against the Las Vegas-based casino operator other than what it disclosed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
Allegiant Chief Operating Officer Tyler Hollingsworth said the Las Vegas-based airline is always looking to add flights to small, underserved communities.