Las Vegas News - Page 455

News Brief: Stepping up the counterattack on two controversial gaming tax increase proposals, a Wall Street analyst attack a major tax hike.

As the Culinary Union worked feverishly this week to persuade its members to support Barack Obama, a prickly question arose: What is the difference between tough political tactics and unethical, or illegal, intimidation?

Between a lawsuit and the Culinary Union's political weight in Saturday's caucus, the Bellagio’s basement cafeteria has become ground zero for the media.

The Shoppes at Palazzo retailers are betting the drawing power of Las Vegas and the novelty of 34 new-to-market stores and restaurants will be enough to overcome the glum business headlines.

Las Vegas Sands Corp.launched a spectacular music, light, and firework display that officially opened the company's new $1.9 billion resort -- The Palazzo Las Vegas.

The tightening lending market is jeopardizing the ownership of the Cosmopolitan, a multibillion-dollar hotel-condominium development under construction on the Strip.

The Deutsche Bank has delivered a notice of loan default to the developer of the Cosmopolitan Resort and Casino project under construction in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Neither Floyd Mayweather nor the Rolling Stones were around to draw tourists to Las Vegas in November, and it showed in the monthly visitation tally.

Nearly all of the 64 slots in the fourth National Heads-Up Poker Championship at Caesars Palace will be filled by big-name poker pros, with a smattering of celebrity types rounding out the field.

Gaming stocks are plummeting and Wall Street is frenzied with fears that people are spending much less of their hard-earned cash in casinos.

Roughly 50 percent of CityCenter's nearly 2,650 high-end residential offerings have been claimed by buyers since MGM Mirage's $24 million sales pavilion on the Strip opened a year ago.

The new owners of Lake Las Vegas have a fresh set of challenges -- millions of dollars at stake in a series of lawsuits and unpaid bills left behind.

MGM Mirage released the last of CityCenter's exclusive residential offerings with the sales launch of The Harmon Hotel, Spa & Residences.

The Palazzo Las Vegas reports that three-time Grammy award winning performer, Seal, has been added to the star-studded grand opening concert lineup.

The owners of the Hard Rock Hotel seem poised to start collecting revenues from the largest cash flow amenity on the property: the casino.

Binion's sale to Four Queens owner Terry Caudill for $32 million was endorsed by the Nevada Gaming Control Board on Wednesday.

The $1.3 billion sale of the Stratosphere's parent company to an affiliate of Goldman Sachs was recommended for approval by the state Gaming Control Board on Wednesday.

MTR Gaming Group, Inc. and TLC Casino Enterprises, Inc. announced that the Nevada Gaming Control Board unanimously voted to recommend approval of the sale of Binion’s to TLC Casino Enterprises to the Nevada Gaming Commission yesterday.

News Brief: One Las Vegas race book has started accepting phone account wagers on Thoroughbred races.

Dealers at the Flamingo say they are being hauled into meetings where top managers at the Strip resort tell their captive audiences why they shouldn't follow workers at Caesars Palace and Wynn Las Vegas by trying to organize a union.