Nevada News - Page 594

Harrah's Entertainment Inc. may expand its two Atlantic City resorts and renovate Bally's Las Vegas to take advantage of growing demand in both markets.

So what, exactly, are the boundaries when it comes to exhibiting at a Las Vegas trade show?

International News Brief: Glenn Schaeffer is the sugar daddy of New Zealand literature. He makes millions in Las Vegas and sends chunks of money south.

Fed up with exhibitor-hired models who way too often dressed way too down, the Diamond Bar, Calif.-based trade group has drawn the line on excessive skin at its Las Vegas convention.

The term "broken record" has become, well, a broken record when used to describe recent milestones in local tourism.

Passenger traffic at McCarran International continued to climb in April when the Las Vegas airport hosted more than 3.7 million arriving and departing passengers, up 3.8 percent from a year ago.

News Brief: The World Series of Poker tournament will hold all but the final two days of the championship event in a new 60,000-square foot convention center at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, just off the Strip on Flamingo Avenue.

News Brief: Several founders of the Hooters restaurant chain are betting that beautiful women in tank tops and tight-fitting shorts attract affluent gamblers to a Las Vegas casino.

Nevada is on the verge of having a law that enables casinos to offer mobile gaming, but technology experts attending a gaming conference caution that it will be tough for the state to control who plays and from where.

Despite a drop in numbers from financially struggling United Airlines, the passenger count at McCarran International Airport climbed again in April, beating the comparable month a year ago by 3.8 percent.

The Cosmopolitan's layout of retail stores and restaurants is based on easy access and convenience for consumers with unprecedented branding and signage opportunities for tenants.

Landry's Restaurants, which is purchasing the Golden Nugget Las Vegas from Poster Financial, is expected to gain the Golden Nugget Laughlin property as well without putting up additional money.

Rob Goldstein, senior vice president of Las Vegas Sands Corp., told a group attending the Gaming Technology Summit in a keynote speech Wednesday that Las Vegas is constantly confounding the experts and proving them wrong.

Nevada lawmakers are close to approving legislation that would approve some forms of wireless gaming but only in casinos, and only if regulators write rules allowing handheld betting.

The Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino's $39 million meeting space expansion is open.

Station Casinos Inc. said Tuesday that it is buying 50 acres of property south of Reno.

Officials at Wynn Las Vegas are investigating the cause of a power outage that briefly affected the new Strip resort Tuesday.

A Southern California police officer and a Las Vegas blackjack dealer have been arrested for alleged cheating.

Banking giant Bear Stearns projected the industry would enjoy an average rate of return of 16 percent on total investments of $25 billion over the next five years.

News Brief: From hidden cameras to secret surveillance rooms, here’s a look at the security measures Singapore can expect in its 2 new integrated resorts.