Although Macau surpassed the Las Vegas Strip in 2006 and is still the reining revenue champion, Las Vegas is still king of the game in many ways with more visitors arriving each year, as well as pioneering the concept of integrated casino resorts. Three of the four US-listed companies that operate in China also call Las Vegas home - Las Vegas Sands Corp., Wynn Resorts Ltd., and MGM Resorts International. Any move by the big players in Sin City has an effect on operations all over the world. World Casino News covers The Strip and Glitter Gulch as casinos open and close, C-Suite Executives rise and fall, and as Downtown is revitalized by important operators into a more sophisticated gambling and entertainment zone.
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What started as just an idea a few months ago, may be closer to reality, as the owner of the Oakland Raiders NFL team has discussed further moving his team to Las Vegas. Posing with fans behind a Las Vegas Raid...
Ahead of its planned opening on the Cotai Strip later in the year, the Wynn Palace resort casino has hired 3,600 employees following hundreds of onsite interviews and several job fairs organized with the suppor...
Las Vegas-based LBO casino operator Red Rock Resorts (RRR) is scheduled to price its initial public offering (IPO) today and could raise $572.25 million, which would make it the second-largest IPO this year, tr...
Casino operator MGM Resorts International has established the MGM Growth Properties LLC subsidiary to handle ten of its properties including The Mirage and Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. The new publicly traded rea...
Culinary Workers Union Local 226 held a protest outside the Trump International Hotel to let their boss Donald Trump know that Las Vegas was “a union town.” The Thursday rally was quiet for approximately an hou...
The Stratosphere Las Vegas is considered to be one of the iconic buildings in Las Vegas with its well known tower, which stands at 1,149 feet tall. The late Bob Stupak was a promoter, poker player and visionary...
On Thursday, Paradise, Nevada-based Boyd Gaming Corp. announced it had reached an agreement to purchase the Aliante Casino & Hotel located in North Las Vegas for $380 million.
Acquisition of the nearly 8...
The Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino of Las Vegas, Nevada began the remodel of their resort last year and have now announced the final phase of the remodel is complete. Costing a combined total of around $100 mil...
After purchasing a building next to the Las Vegas Club from the Granite Gaming Group in downtown Las Vegas, the D Las Vegas Casino & Hotel, and Golden Gate owners say they’re going to build a third hotel-ca...
Yesterday it was revealed that Boyd Gaming is set to acquire Cannery Casino Resorts, a rival company located in Las Vegas, Nevada. According to a report by Reuters, Boyd Gaming is currently negotiating a deal w...
The Las Vegas Sands Corp is the biggest casino enterprise in the world and derives a significant portion of its revenue from its Macau based subsidiary, the Sands China Ltd. However the collapse of the Macau ca...
In an interview earlier this week with the Las Vegas Sun, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval stated that he feels the Oakland Raiders could possibly move to Las Vegas. Sandoval stated that the owner of the NFL team...
The state of New Jersey has approved an agreement that was made in March to see the Trump Taj Mahal be managed by the Tropicana. It was announced early last month that Trump Taj Mahal Associates and Tropicana E...
Las Vegas Sands Corp (NYSE: LVS) agreed Thursday to pay $9 million in order to end a five year probe into allegations that it violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act - a federal anti-bribery law, when it fai...
Steve Wynn is planning quite the transformation for the golf course behind his Las Vegas resorts. The expansive new development includes a 38-acre lagoon attraction, 1,000-room hotel tower, meeting space, resta...