Nevada News - Page 482

After surviving 15 days in Las Vegas covering the World Series of Poker, the Casino City editorial team lists 10 reasons why you should get up off your couch next year and join them.

In the past week, several signs, read together, show that long-held assumptions about growth in Southern Nevada could be fundamentally changing.

Wynn Resorts is now accepting applications for 5,300 newly created job opportunities, as it prepares to unveil Encore, the new signature resort in the Wynn collection.

In one of the potentially largest bankruptcies in Nevada history, Lake Las Vegas, a 3,592-acre residential and resort development in Henderson, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Thursday.

CityCenter revealed today the first of the luxury retailers and dining establishments that will have coveted locations inside The Crystals, its spectacular 500,000-square-foot retail, entertainment and dining district.

Clark County is pushing forward with a $1.8 billion airport expansion in Las Vegas despite pleas to hold off from airlines who fear there won't be enough passengers to justify the cost.

Safety systems referred to as "stoplights for pilots" are set for deployment at 20 of the nation's airports, including McCarran International, where close calls known as "runway incursions" are up three-fold since 2000.

Co-created by Action Sports Super Star, Carey Hart, Wasted Space will officially open July 19 with a private VIP party and a special acoustic rock set from Gavin Rossdale.

Legislators in Pennsylvania want to revoke Las Vegas casino owner Don Barden's license to run a casino in their state.

A former federal OSHA official said a draft of the report following two deaths at the Orleans calls into question the use of state resources to provide training and consultation services to Boyd Gaming Corp.

Mike Woodrum, the man behind the bar at the Klondike Sunset, sees the signs of economic downturn all around him,

Under the bright lights of the TV cameras and the pressure of the late stages of the Main Event, six elite dealers are controlling the action at the tables.

Following 11 long days of poker, the second-largest field in WSOP Main Event history has been played down to nine, setting up a historic final table that won't be played until November.

A union organizing effort at the Rio fell short Saturday when 60 percent of the casino dealers voted against representation.

Don Barden won't need to sell Fitzgeralds to maintain a stake in a slots-only casino in Pittsburgh, but the downtown Las Vegas casino remains an asset he could use to generate cash for his struggling gambling portfolio.

Gaming stocks on Friday recovered some of their value that was lost the previous day when both Nevada and Atlantic City reported disappointing monthly gaming revenues, panicking an already jittery investment community.

The number of people who visited Las Vegas in May held strong at 3.4 million, despite a 15 percent decline in the amount of money they lost gambling in Sin City casinos.

Disputes over staffing levels in the nation's air traffic control towers have poisoned relations between controllers and the Federal Aviation Administration and could affect airfields from Las Vegas to New York.

The Nevada Gaming Control Board reported Thursday that gaming tax collections in June plunged 22.8 percent from June 2007, the worst drop in at least 10 years.

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