Nevada News - Page 718

Angry Palms football contest entrants complained when the same people seemed to win Monday Night Football party cash giveaways week after week, and Palms executives changed the rules before last night's game in order to end the complaints.

Sahara, which celebrates its 50th anniversary Monday, has fought the odds in a town that discards past icons like so many used dice.

The general manager of the Las Vegas Strip's Sahara hotel-casino, Chuck Hunsucker, has resigned from his position.

A Nevada CasinoControl Board Chairman says that Binion's has been having financial difficulties, which has prompted agents to step up their usual monitoring of the casino.

The Cannery Casino Resorts' company is seeking employees to fill jobs at its new property on Craig and Losee roads in North Las Vegas.

Nevada gaming regulators Tuesday night ordered Binion's Horseshoe to shut down some casino games because the downtown Las Vegas casino's bankroll had fallen below the level required to pay off gamblers.

Nevada Numbers, a statewide casino keno game, is growing in popularity and Las Vegas Gaming is now preparing to offer a statewide bingo game.

A number of airlines have announces changes to their chartered flights to Las Vegas’ McCarran International Airport.

News Brief: Miles away from the betting masses and the din of the slot machines in the Tulalip Tribes’ casino, a smaller tribe has found that gambling can change its situation, too.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has filed a sex and age harassment lawsuit against the Riviera Hotel and Casino -- and claimed casino workers industry-wide are afraid of reporting such harassment for fear of retaliation.

Although outside still feels like summer, inside many Las Vegas-area retail outlets it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

The Cannery Casino & Hotel in North Las Vegas, set to open in December, expects to hire more than 1,000 people.

The number of visitors to Las Vegas is estimated to increase by about 8.5 percent from September to December compared to the year before.

Nevada remains the world's top place to operate casinos and the casino industry is in good shape despite the recent poor performance of the nation's economy, Governor Kenny Guinn says.

Station Casinos executives handed out $250,000 in checks to 53 high-need elementary schools in Clark County, Nevada.

The first federally hired and trained security agents took their places at checkpoints leading to the D-gates concourse at McCarran International Airport just after midnight Tuesday, a step local aviation officials believe will significantly improve passenger security at the nation's seventh busiest airport.

Steve Wynn, the creator of The Mirage and Bellagio, says that the big Las Vegas casino operators have emerged from the turbulent past year stronger, leaner and ready for a rebound.

The Las Vegas Planning Commission has approved a previously announced expansion of Coast Casinos Inc.'s Suncoast hotel-casino in Summerlin.

News Brief: Linda Pulido visited Las Vegas last month never expecting she'd help decide who'd be the next anchor on a morning television news show.

Las Vegas Strip casino resort operator MGM Mirage said it plans to open a new art and antiques exhibit at the company's MGM Grand hotel-casino.