Analysts break down what a calendar “quirk” and a bad month for baccarat means. Also, will owner of ballpark site finance A’s stadium costs?

With the closing of The Mirage (to be renovated into Hard Rock Las Vegas) and Mohegan Gaming's departure from Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, the San Manuel Indian Tribe is the only tribal casino operator in Las Vegas.

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.

MGM Resorts International pushed in all its chips on the Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix. The company won big, producing 14 percent quarterly increases in Strip gaming and hotel revenue.

Republican U.S. Senate candidates gathered in Reno Thursday night to debate who among them would be the best challenger to take on Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) in November — and took shots at the elephant not in the room, front-runner and retired Army Capt. Sam Brown.

Circa Sports is considered one of the top four sports betting operators in Nevada, according to one gaming analyst. "We've stuck with our business model," said Circa executive Mike Palm.

Professional sports leagues want to find a responsible path forward for toward sports betting advertising without losing the millions in partnership revenue.

Reno may see its first all-new resort casino since 1995 with the planned Firecreek Crossing Resort-Casino near the convention center on South Virginia Street.

Millions of dollars of investment by Nevada gaming companies into casinos in Colorado's historic mining communities has turned the state into 14th largest gaming market in the U.S.

Boyd Gaming said it was not going to demolish Eastside Cannery but will keep the Boulder Highway casino closed until business demands return.

California tribes are split on how to legalize sports betting; Las Vegas Sands invests in a sports betting technology provider; VICI is close to finalizing its deal for MGM Growth. More in Indy Gaming.

The nation's casino industry produced nearly $53 billion in gaming revenue in 2021, crushing all records. “These outstanding results mark a new baseline,” said AGA CEO Bill Miller. More in Indy Gaming.

Commission members have scheduled an agenda item for Tuesday’s meeting to discuss and possibly adopt the proposed contract, which would see it become at least the fourth government agency to receive direct cash payments from NV Energy in return for a promise not to consider leaving NV Energy for another electric provider.

Members of the Clark County School District’s Board of Trustees have scheduled an agenda item and possible vote during their upcoming Thursday meeting on a contract that would lock the district into an agreement to remain an NV Energy customer for the next five years, in return for annual $1.5 million in either direct cash payments or through a special rate program for large customers.

The two contracts offer a unique view into just how far NV Energy — which is owned by the Warren Buffet-run Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate — is willing to go to entice large Nevada power users to remain utility customers, as many of the largest businesses in the state have openly weighed or taken proactive steps to buy power from other electric providers.

In a filing last week, NV Energy attorneys withdrew the utility’s pending application for its Optional Pricing Program Rate (OPPR), stopping regulatory approval on an alternative pricing mechanism proposed by the utility last year as a way to keep multiple large businesses from filing or continuing with applications to leave the utility.

In a joint statement sent Tuesday, NV Energy and Station Casinos announced they had reached an agreement on fully bundled electric service and that the casino company — which owns multiple properties in the Las Vegas area including Red Rock Casino Resort and Spa, Palace Station and Green Valley Ranch — would withdraw its application before the state’s Public Utilities Commission to depart from utility electric service and purchase power from another provider.

According to filings made with the Public Utilities Commission over the last month, attorneys for the Raiders have requested and received permission to suspend compliance with the terms of the under-construction stadium’s departure from its planned exit from NV Energy in order to assess an alternative offer by NV Energy.

The two entities made the announcement in a joint press release sent Wednesday, ending the LVCVA’s flirtation with leaving the utility to purchase power from another electric provider and keeping another large customer within the utility’s folds.

Introduced by Democratic Sen. Chris Brooks on Wednesday, SB5XX would substantially alter the state’s so-called 704B law for the first time since it was created in 2001, adding numerous new restrictions and requirements — including a new licensing structure, additional payments and more requirements for a departure — for businesses that already have or are in the process of departing NV Energy’s electric service.