Nevada News - Page 356

The idea of leasing out retail, club, sports book or restaurant space to a third-party operator is now woven into the fabric of the Las Vegas resort industry.

After talking, planning and collecting since 1996, the Neon Museum finally has an opening date.

Las Vegas hotel-casinos expect a busy Labor Day weekend this year with projections for tourist volume, spending and hotel rates all higher than last year.

Casino City's Vin Narayanan and Aaron Todd discuss the Republican Party's platform which calls for the prohibition of online poker, Nevada licensing its first online poker room, subscription poker and the fate of Revel in Atlantic City. They also make their highly entertaining best bets for the week.

Wildfire Gaming, a division of Station Casinos LLC, said Wednesday the shuttered Gold Rush in Henderson has been remodeled and will operate as Wildfire Sunset.

LVH, formally LVH-Las Vegas Hotel & Casino, has been in receivership since last September.

Mark Dalton, managing member with Player Verify, said Nevada gaming companies that select its player authentication services will have the ability to instantly authenticate identities via its Identity Checker tool.

The deal will expand the company's presence in downtown Las Vegas.

The campaign includes several elements of social media and production, and it builds on the recent "Know the Code" campaign scolding those who post Vegas trip pictures that embarrass their mates, or the odd royal, on Facebook or Twitter.

In honor of the upcoming Labor Day holiday, Casino City's Vin Narayanan looks at 10 types of casino workers who deserve our appreciation.

A young mountain lion was caught and later released into the wild after attempting to enter Harrah's Friday morning.

A window of opportunity that could place Nevada at the center of the potential U.S. Internet gaming market is closing quickly, and some in the gaming industry worry that lack of federal action could cost the state tax revenues and casino customers, while making Nevada subservient to less-regulated states.

Real estate developer Andrew Donner has long believed in the revitalization of downtown Las Vegas.

Terms of the contract reached Thursday during a Nevada Gaming Commission hearing were not disclosed.

U.S. Sen. Harry Reid made his feelings clear in response to a question from the Las Vegas Review-Journal during a ceremony at McCarran International's new Terminal 3.

South Point Poker LLC on Thursday made history as the first U.S. casino to be licensed to operate an intrastate, real-money poker website.

Michael Albanese and two other employees - Matthew Kidle, an administrator, and Kassie Baker, a ticket writer - are accused of using their sportsbook positions to accept "invalid" wagers on horse races.

With Player Verify's recent application for a Nevada online poker service provider license, collecting detailed player information will soon become simple and accurate for Nevada-based online poker companies.

Shotgun Creek Investments, headed by Wayne Perry, a prominent Seattle businessman and part-owner of baseball's Seattle Mariners, has "invested tens of millions" in the SkyVue project and may put in more.

The South Point recently installed Bally Technologies' iView Display Manager on 2,480 of the casino's 2,600 slot machines.