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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.
The rebranded and refurbished Lexi Hotel, which will be cannabis friendly and feature a tops-optional pool, will open its doors in Las Vegas on June 2.
The Las Vegas Convention Center is kicking off a 2½-year renovation project that will not displace a single convention.
A Canadian retiree is frustrated he can’t collect on a $225,000 jackpot that he thought he won from an online casino site.
A report found that Las Vegas is also drawing a more ethnically diverse crowd, with higher rates of Asian and Asian American and Hispanic-Latino visitors.
Allegiant proposal would enable airline and partner, Viva Aerobus, to fly routes to Mexican beach resorts from Las Vegas and small towns in the United States.
Two on state’s list of excluded persons from casinos are expected to be removed because they’ve died, but Leonard Morgan Hairston may be added on Thursday.
The American Gaming Association expects a mostly younger crowd will wager the most on the longshot U.S. team, which begins play Monday in the host country of Qatar.
Casino Employees Against Smoking’s Effects is trying to gather support for a ban on smoking in Nevada casinos, but the topic may be too hot to gather enough local support.
Wynn Las Vegas is partnering with quarterback Tom Brady’s health and wellness company, TB12, to provide body coaching for guests and Southern Nevada residents.
Encore Boston Harbor reported a 66 percent share of gaming revenue collected in Massachusetts in July, beating MGM Springfield and Plainridge Park Casino.
North Las Vegas Mayor John Lee would like to see the land converted to commercial uses and not big-box stores.
Despite plans to demolish the North Las Vegas hotel-casino, an adjacent ice rink and arena will continue operating until the land is sold and a new landowner decides what to do with it.
Two airlines offering nonstop flights between London’s Heathrow International Airport and Harry Reid International in Las Vegas haven’t been affected by a capacity cap.
Three Station Casinos properties — Texas Station, Fiesta Rancho and Fiesta Henderson — will be permanently closed, demolished and the land beneath them sold, the company said Friday.
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