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.
In a two-day election supervised by the NLRB on Nov. 8-9, 2017, 730 Green Valley Ranch workers voted in favor of union representation of several employee groups by Culinary Workers Union Local 226 and Bartenders Union Local 165, Nevada affiliates of UNITE HERE, which represents more than 57,000 workers in Las Vegas and Reno.
MGM Resorts International on Tuesday reported better third-quarter results than Wall Street analysts expected and the company had projected.
But there were more than 4 million travelers for the seventh straight month, the Clark County Department of Aviation reported Tuesday.
Clark County and state casino win showed modest increases in September, but the 50 Las Vegas Strip licensees registered declines for the month, quarter and past 12 months, the state Gaming Control Board reported Tuesday.
A product doesn’t have to have four wheels to be a part of this week’s Specialty Equipment Market Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center — but it helps.
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 U.S. Supreme Court’s decision not to consider hearing a petition to overturn an appellate court ruling on Wynn Las Vegas’ tip-sharing policy marks another stop on the long, tortuous road traveld since the tip policy was announced in 2006.
Fourteen former hair stylists and nail technicians at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas’ Violet Hour salon have filed a lawsuit inClark County District Court against the resort’s parent company.
Palms employees are on the verge of being unionized. The Culinary Union has been authorized to represent about 900 workers at the off-Strip property following a two-day union representation election completed Saturday.
Nevada casinos made it three for three in 2018, collecting more than $1 billion in gaming win for the third straight month in March, the state Gaming Control Board reported Monday.
Shareholders of Las Vegas-based Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. on Thursday overwhelmingly approved a proposal for the company’s merger with Penn National Gaming Inc.
Every year at around this time, we look back at the good (and bad) times of the previous year.
