Reduced COVID cases, increases in vaccination numbers and the relaxation of restrictions are producing greater optimism that visitors will have fun in Las Vegas.
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The man hit the jackpot on a Shania Twain-branded table game at the resident headliner’s host property.
It was a pandemic Friday night on the Strip, the first since casino capacity limits lifted from 35 percent to 50 percent.
Once the namesake to one Las Vegas’ most successful resorts, the Hilton brand will add 5,000 rooms to its portfolio through Virgin Hotels and Resorts World.
The lucky guest, who chose to remain anonymous, hit a straight flush on the first hand dealt.
With Circa opening in October, Virgin Hotels Las Vegas debuting Thursday and Resorts World Las Vegas on deck for the summer, the city is in the midst of a new wave.
The SLS Las Vegas opened with much fanfare in 2014 but quickly spiraled downward. Now, a few miles away, Las Vegas’ newest renovated resort figures it’s starting out on stronger footing.
McCarran International Airport had a buzz about it Friday afternoon as droves of travelers arrived for what’s expected to be a busy weekend in Las Vegas.
“Help is here for venue operators hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic,” SBA Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman said in a Friday release about the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program.
An estimated 9.9 percent of the valley’s workforce was unemployed in January. Only one other metro area with a population of at least 1 million has a higher unemployment rate.
George W. Bush will take part in the Las Vegas convention Excell 2021, put on by Carson Group, this October.
Richard “Boz” Bosworth, president and CEO of Virgin Hotels Las Vegas’ ownership group, spoke with the Review-Journal about the purchase of the hotel, the renovations and the pandemic.
Virgin Hotels Las Vegas opens Thursday, ushering in a new casino, entertainment venues and designs to the city.
Passage of the bill that forever shaped the future of the state took second billing to a story about a hospital expansion, and the later signing of the bill got even less play.
Although gambling has been around much longer, brought to the Silver State by prospectors seeking their mining fortunes, legal gaming got its official start in 1931.
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