Laborers Local 872 wants to recall Las Vegas City Councilman Steve Seroka over his opposition to development at the Badlands Golf Course. Local 872 secretary-treasurer Tommy White says that effort is doing “fantastic” and hinted they may organize more recalls in the future. White also said that while his union has endorsed Republicans, he doesn’t think it will endorse President Donald Trump.
Assistant Sheriff Tim Kelly addresses members of the media regarding an officer involved shooting that took place on Jan. 27, 2019. The suspect in the incident was unharmed, but placed under arrest and charged with several crimes. (Mat Luschek/Review-Journal)
Assistant Sheriff Tim Kelly addresses members of the media regarding an officer-involved shooting that took place on Jan. 27, 2019. The suspect in the incident was unharmed, but placed under arrest and charged with several crimes. (Mat Luschek/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
A man claiming to be part of the press refused to leave a press conference at Metro police headquarters, Wednesday January 30, 2019. Officers were forced to physically remove the man. (Mat Luschek/Review-Journal)
Perla Gumm has spent the past few years collecting toys for kids for the LV Rescue Mission. It’s something she started even before the rescue mission was her beneficiary; she just felt a need to collect toys and teamed up with them later. Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal @bizutesfaye
UNLV football coach Tony Sanchez wraps up the season. Video by Mark Anderson/Las Vegas Review-Journal
Tony DeFrancesco talks about the win over Salt Lake on June 30, 2018, at Cashman Field. (Betsy Helfand/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Unions representing Las Vegas casino workers could call a citywide strike as early as June 1 if they do not reach a deal with employers. Las Vegas casino strikes have been avoided in most cases. The last citywide strike was in 1984. It affected 32 resorts and lasted 67 days. A month-long strike in June could cost MGM Resorts and Caesars as much as $300 million in cash flow, according to a union report In 1984, a union strike fund helped support workers during the period they picketed.
Allie Rossi and Alexis Vargas participate in a balloon release during a candlelight vigil at Knickerbocker Park in Las Vegas Friday, March 30, 2018.
Allie’s brother, Albert “A.J.” Rossi, along with fellow Centennial High School students Dylan Mack and Brooke Hawley, died in a car crash caused by a drunk driver in Huntington Beach, Calif. early Thursday. Vargas, who was also on the trip, was injured in the accident. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
On April 26, 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came to Las Vegas to speak at the Las Vegas NAACP chapter’s Freedom Banquet. Though the passing decades have left those who attended with sketchy memories of exactly what was said, Esther Langston still remembers the power of the man and his message. (Andrea Cornejo/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Cora Williams moved into a house in west Las Vegas around 1957. Today, her son Howard Williams occupies the same boyhood home that his mother built.
WBO heavyweight champion Joseph Parker has trained in Las Vegas for the past four years. The New Zealander will go toe-to-toe with Anthony Joshua in an unification bout for the WBA and IBF heavyweight championship on Mar. 31.
Douglas Haig, identified as a person of interest in documents related to the Las Vegas shooting, spoke to reporters Tuesday evening outside his home in Mesa, Arizona. (Madison Miller/Las Vegas Review-Journal Correspondent)
“If you’re good at what you do, it’s a game of skill, not chance.” Success Magazine 2014. Steve Wynn moved to Las Vegas in 1967 and invested in the Frontier Hotel. Less than a year later he sold the Frontier to billionaire Howard Hughes. Wynn has said he made no money on the deal. The Golden Nugget had one of the most desirable locations on Fremont Street . In 1972 Wynn and a group of investors bought enough stock to get elected to the board of directors and eventually take control. By August 1973 Wynn ran the company, and in one year he increased the pre-tax profits from $1.1 million to $4.2 million. He used Golden Nugget profits to buy an aging hotel in Atlantic City, where gambling had just become legal. Wynn tore it down, and by 1980 had built another Golden Nugget with 506 rooms. By 1984 his net worth was estimated at $100 million. Wynn then sold the Nugget’s Atlantic City property for $440 million, plowing part of the money into building The Mirage. It opened in November 1989, with a published price tag of $630 million. It was soon followed by the construction of Treasure Island. Bellagio was Steve Wynn’s next move. The 1998 opening of the 3,000-room Bellagio and its $1.6 billion price tag made it the most expensive resort ever built at the time. In 2000, Wynn sold his company, Mirage Resorts, to MGM Grand Inc. However Steve Wynn wasn’t leaving Las Vegas. Wynn Las Vegas opened April, 2005 on the site of the former Desert Inn Hotel. Wynn Las Vegas broke records with a $2.7 billion construction price tag. The Wynn and sister property Encore built in 2008 have more than 4700 rooms. Steve Wynn’s next move: major investments in Macau. Wynn Macau was completed in 2006, followed by Wynn Palace which opened in 2016. The casino operator plans to start construction of Paradise Park, which includes a 47-story, 1,500-room hotel, on the site of the Wynn Golf Course in early 2018. In January 2018 Wynn announced plans to build Wynn West, a 2,000-3,000-room property on the 38-acre Alon site that was purchased on Dec. 13 for $336 million. Wynn said he wants to push ahead with development on his undeveloped land because he expects Las Vegas will boom over the next 20 years as tax breaks stimulate an “economic renaissance.”
Junior Occhipinti is one of the victims of a flu season that has caused 16 deaths in Clark County so far, compared with five last year, according to Southern Nevada Health District data released Friday. Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday the 2017-18 flu season is poised to be the worst since the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.
They left us in 2017 and might be gone, but will never be forgotten. Here’s a look back at some of the people with ties to Las Vegas who we lost in 2017.
UNLV NAACP and Black Lives Matter UNLV held a press conference on campus on Thursday, Nov. 30. They released a list of demands regarding a Tuesday, Nov. 28 incident on campus where seven North Las Vegas police officers drove onto campus unannounced and disrupted their poetry event. (Natalie Bruzda/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Spirit Airlines will launch nonstop flights from Las Vegas to two Florida airports beginning April 12. Spirit will offer daily flights between McCarran airport and Tampa, along with Orlando, as well as 9 other new routes across the U.S. Over the past two years, Spirit has grown to become the fifth busiest airline at McCarran International Airport. Mark Kopczak, Spirit Airlines vice president
A court order is preventing vendors from retrieving their equipment and items they were selling at the Route 91 Harvest festival, the site of the shooting on Oct. 1.
UNLV basketball coach Marvin Menzies addresses the media Saturday, Sept. 30, 2017, about the FBI investigation into alleged corruption in college basketball and his team’s outlook this season. (Mark Anderson/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Owner and artist Joe Riley of Inner Visions Tattoo discusses his idea to use his shop as a place to collect donated goods for Hurricane Harvey in Las Vegas, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2017. Inner Visions is giving away gift cards to those who donate, and will ship the donations to Houston Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017. Elizabeth Brumley Las Vegas Review-Journal
The Review-Journal’s Todd Dewey, handicapper Kelly Stewart (@KellyInVegas) and Wynn sports book director Johnny Avello preview the Eagles’ season in the 23rd of a series of 32 NFL team videos in 32 days. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The Review-Journal’s Todd Dewey, handicapper Kelly Stewart (@KellyInVegas) and Wynn sports book director Johnny Avello preview the Rams’ season in the 22nd of a series of 32 NFL team videos in 32 days. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The Review-Journal’s Todd Dewey, handicapper Kelly Stewart (@KellyInVegas) and Wynn sports book director Johnny Avello preview the Seahawks’ season in the 21st of a series of 32 NFL team videos in 32 days. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
UNLV quarterback Armani Rogers shares his thoughts on the upcoming football season for the Rebels. (Gabriella Benavidez/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
17-year-old Arianna Perroots is pursuing her dreams of becoming an opera singer. (Gabriella Benavidez/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
A grapefruit flavored cocktail with a lemon twist. (Gabriella Benavidez/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Wednesday morning headlines: Fontainebleau sold, prostitution spike on Mayweather-McGregor fight weekend, Legacy Golf Course to stay open. Elaine Wilson/Las Vegas Review-Journal