Fallout from the Wayne Nix federal illegal bookmaking and money laundering case continues in Las Vegas with the state Gaming Control Board’s reported interest in the widening investigation.

Cheap buffets were once synonymous with Las Vegas as penny slots and $1 blackjack. But like low-end gambling games, buffets are disappearing, replaced by food halls.

A New York judge invalidated Nassau County's lease agreement with Las Vegas Sands for developing a hotel-casino on Long Island. But the gaming licensing process in the state has been slow going.

Nevada's farmers are aging, the number of small-to-medium-sized growers is declining and farmland in the state is being developed into industrial spaces and housing.

Members of Congress have to report the prior year’s assets and liabilities annually, and with their 2022 reports due this August, we now have data that helps estimate their net worths. 

The Culinary and Bartenders unions have called for a citywide strike vote by 53,000 non-gaming Strip and downtown workers by the end of September.

Lawmakers introduced and passed several bills tackling the needs of Nevadans experiencing homelessness or housing instability in the recent legislative session. But was it enough?

Douglas Kim is a master sommelier and at 35, he has one of the most coveted careers in the hospitality industry as the director of wine at MGM Resorts.

In 2019, two mining giants joined forces, with huge consequences for a Northern Nevada community and economy.

In the vaccination campaign, mandates may just be the final frontier. If scientists, public health officials, family doctors, and cash prizes can’t convince people, the thinking goes, maybe a mandate from their employer will.

Businesses with 100 or more workers will soon be subject to a new federal employee vaccine mandate. But many Nevada businesses and public institutions have already put their own policies in place.

In a sign of the pandemic winding to a close, Gov. Steve Sisolak on Wednesday announced the disbanding of the state's COVID-19 Private Sector Task Force — a group of private citizens responsible for fundraising and supporting efforts to mitigate and recover from the virus.

A division has emerged among Nevada Resort Association members over revisions to legislation that would allow laid-off gaming and tourism workers to return to their jobs. One company vows to oppose the modified bill and even seek a veto from Gov. Steve Sisolak.

During a joint meeting of Assembly and Senate judiciary committees on Saturday, lawmakers spent a rainy Carson City morning digging into the details of SB452 — an emergency bill sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Nicole Cannizzaro (D-Las Vegas) and introduced last week that revives jettisoned portions of the other major gun bill of the session. Senators opted to vote the bill out of committee after the hearing on a 4-3, party-line vote.

The state’s Green Building Tax Abatements program is still in heavy use — a state report estimated more than $25 million in property taxes were abated through the 2020 fiscal year, with $105 million in property taxes abated since 2010. State budget analysts say that more than 160 buildings in the state — from Park MGM, Wynn/Encore and even the T-Mobile Arena — enjoy partial property tax abatements through the program.

Per the bill (and an amendment making minor changes presented Wednesday by Jauregui), the legislation would explicitly authorize a “covered premise” to prohibit most individuals from possessing a firearm on its property without the written consent of the owner. A covered premise means any private business where a large number of people gather — including casinos, churches, shopping malls, stadiums, movie theaters or golf courses.

Nevada is, once again, healing, just as it did after the tourism industry was rocked by 9/11, the Great Recession and 1 October. That healing, though, has only ever been surface deep. The question now is whether history will repeat itself.

The last year laid bare Nevada’s chronic underfunding of public health systems, a lack of investment in aging state infrastructure, including its unemployment system and continued economic overreliance on the tourism industry. It also saw resilience in the face of despair.

Arriving late to the party oftentimes has benefits. Just ask Jim Murren.

The Culinary Workers Union Local 226 has filed a lawsuit against three Las Vegas Strip properties, alleging employees aren’t being protected from the spread of COVID-19 in the workplace.