Nevada News - Page 505

Gayle Mitchell shares some stories about recent slots winners.

Perini Building Company, Inc, a wholly owned subsidiary of Perini Corporation, has in place an interim commitment with Deutsche Bank.

On the heels of his recent appearance on NBC's reality series 'Phenomenon,' mentalist Gerry McCambridge ends his Las Vegas show each night by successfully predicting the lottery numbers.

Casino City digs into its in-depth data to come up with a Top-10 list of casino hotels by the number of rooms available. While Malaysia's Casino de Genting leads the list with more than 6,000 rooms, the other nine properties all reside in Las Vegas.

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.

News Brief: A deep and angry split in Nevada's labor movement has opened up as rival unions try to rein in the power of the state's Culinary Workers Union in advance of Saturday's Democratic presidential caucuses.

Las Vegas-based Ganaste completed an $11.4 million real estate purchase of the Speedway Hotel and Casino from Chester, W.Va.-based MTR Gaming last week.

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.

Business leaders whose companies support the casino industry heard impassioned reasons Thursday morning why two different initiatives to raise the state's gaming tax would be bad for their bottom lines.

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.

Retired Nevada Supreme Court Justice Miriam Shearing said Monday that she will try to decide quickly whether to throw out or keep intact a teachers union petition to increase the state gaming tax.