LAS VEGAS (AP) -- The Western Athletic Conference is moving its season-ending men's and women's basketball tournaments to Las Vegas in 2011.
Home prices are at their most affordable in many years, which has opened up homeownership to many who had been locked out during the housing boom. And now, the federal government -- and many states - are launching plans to hook up buyers of repossessed properties with very attractive terms.
LAS VEGAS -- With the American economy at a crossroads, a cross-section of America still converges here every summer. It's as if money grows on palm trees in the middle of The Strip, because, even with recessionary dollars harder to come by, bigger crowds keep coming to the World Series of Poker.
"I've loved every moment," says the PEEPSHOW star, who exits June 21
The expanded Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, has begun adding staff and plans to hire 800 more personnel as construction projects continue.
A search online turns up rooms at Fitzgeralds Casino and Hotel for as low as $26 -- a sure sign the recession is taking a toll on Las Vegas and rates are being slashed to attract visitors.
The Las Vegas entertainment community was shocked by the sudden death Friday of Danny Gans, a popular singer and impressionist.
The 26 cities with the highest foreclosure rate in the nation are all located in four hard-hit states, with Las Vegas topping the list, according to a report released Wednesday.
You know it's a recession when leggy Las Vegas showgirls can't sell enough tickets to stay in business.
The annual March Madness U.S. college basketball tournament, which starts on Thursday, is a pressure cooker for the 65 teams involved.
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- The Western Athletic Conference is moving its season-ending men's and women's basketball tournaments to Las Vegas in 2011.
Home prices are at their most affordable in many years, which has opened up homeownership to many who had been locked out during the housing boom. And now, the federal government -- and many states - are launching plans to hook up buyers of repossessed properties with very attractive terms.
LAS VEGAS -- With the American economy at a crossroads, a cross-section of America still converges here every summer. It's as if money grows on palm trees in the middle of The Strip, because, even with recessionary dollars harder to come by, bigger crowds keep coming to the World Series of Poker.
"I've loved every moment," says the PEEPSHOW star, who exits June 21
The expanded Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, has begun adding staff and plans to hire 800 more personnel as construction projects continue.
A search online turns up rooms at Fitzgeralds Casino and Hotel for as low as $26 -- a sure sign the recession is taking a toll on Las Vegas and rates are being slashed to attract visitors.
The Las Vegas entertainment community was shocked by the sudden death Friday of Danny Gans, a popular singer and impressionist.
The 26 cities with the highest foreclosure rate in the nation are all located in four hard-hit states, with Las Vegas topping the list, according to a report released Wednesday.
You know it's a recession when leggy Las Vegas showgirls can't sell enough tickets to stay in business.
The annual March Madness U.S. college basketball tournament, which starts on Thursday, is a pressure cooker for the 65 teams involved.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Now that the 51st Daytona 500 is a soggy memory and winner Matt Kenseth has made the most of his media trip to New York as the winner of NASCAR's biggest race, it's time to look ahead to the rest of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup season.
It looks like the house doesn't always win, after all.
Sitting back in his leather chair, working as a consultant for a small Las Vegas bank, Tod Little is sure of one thing: Practically anyone, he says, could have made money as a banker in the go-go days of real estate in Nevada. Go-go days that lasted until the fall of 2008.
There are some pretty unusual sites on the Las Vegas Strip. But snow on palm trees stole the show Thursday.
The home price plunge stayed on a record pace this summer, according to a widely watched gauge of national real-estate markets released Tuesday.
On Tuesday, police identified a third person detained as a witness in connection with what authorities believe was the drug-related abduction last week of a 6-year-old Nevada boy, who was found safe three days later.
A woman was arrested in connection with the abduction of 6-year-old Cole Puffinburger from his Nevada home last week, the FBI said Monday.
A Nevada transportation official says an abducted 6-year-old boy was found after he approached a bus driver and asked for a ride home.
A 6-year-old boy abducted Wednesday in Las Vegas, Nevada, has been found safe, the Las Vegas police department announced early Sunday.
Authorities in Southern California arrested the grandfather of an abducted 6-year-old Las Vegas boy, saying the man was involved with Mexican drug dealers and the kidnapping was a "message"
An unemployed graphic designer who authorities say poisoned himself with toxic ricin in his Las Vegas motel room has pleaded guilty to possessing a biological toxin
Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was taken from jail in Arizona to a Las Vegas hospital after he was found weak, feverish and "convulsive" in his cell, a jail official said Wednesday
Mary Jane Prough reserves a room in Las Vegas through Hotwire.com. But the resort she's supposed to stay at has never heard of her, and she's sent to a different hotel that's out in the boondocks. What is Prough owed for the reservations snafu?
Right before Father's Day, the dad of four will be honored at an event he'll host
On a nonstop flight to Las Vegas, Spirit Airlines loses Michael Germano's checked luggage. He files a missing luggage report and a lost luggage claim, but the airline is ignoring his requests for compensation. What's going on, and how can Germano get Spirit to respond?
Cheap hotels, every kind of food you can imagine. Plenty of sizzle, spectacle, first-rate theatrical productions, giant red rocks for climbing and water playgrounds.
A man at the center of a mysterious case of exposure to the deadly biological agent ricin has been arrested, FBI spokesman Richard Kolko said Wednesday.
Residential real estate has posted another record decline.
A man believed to have been exposed to the deadly poison ricin in a hotel room in Las Vegas, Nevada, is out of his coma and is being questioned by authorities, FBI Special Agent David Staretz said Friday.
LAS VEGAS -- As NASCAR leaves Las Vegas following an extended two-weekend Western swing, it's back to basics for the Sprint Cup teams as they return to the Southeast and what Dale Earnhardt Jr. calls two "real race tracks."
The epicenter of foreclosures shifted to the booming city of Las Vegas at the end of 2007.
A fire at the Monte Carlo Resort and Casino in Las Vegas last week was likely caused by flying molten metal from a cutting torch being used by construction crews, the Clark County Fire Department said Thursday.
American billionaire and gambling tycoon Sheldon Adelson said Wednesday he wanted to set up variations of Las Vegas-style strips around the world, with Asia alone having room for several more casinos.
She's been wearing her alcohol monitoring device for a month, but Eve said she can't get used to the hefty ankle bracelet.
Gena Welsh and her husband each receive a $150 certificate when their flight is delayed. But now the company that gave them the voucher -- TransGlobal Vacations -- has become Funjet Vacations. And it's balking at giving them the credit. What should she do?
Las Vegas -- Five things we learned about Team USA at the start of the quarterfinal round of the FIBA America's tournament.
Joan Cole's airport shuttle bus is a no-show. A customer service agent finally tells her to take a cab and promises to pay Cole's fare. But now Gray Line, the company that was supposed to pick her up, is ignoring her request for a refund. What should she do?
The drive to the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository from the Energy Department's office in Las Vegas takes about two hours. It's a freaky ride, past fast-growing Pahrump, Nevada, now a bedroom community for Las Vegas; past Nellis Air Force base, where unmanned spy drones -- Predators and Raptors -- fly test flights; past the gunnery range and the old atom bomb test site.
MGM Mirage Inc., the world's second-largest casino operator, said Thursday second-quarter profit more than doubled on gains from sales of properties.
Three men enslaved more than 20 members of a Chinese acrobatic team, feeding them little, paying them next to nothing to perform and confiscating their passports and visas
It's 7/7/07, when everyone from Vegas gamblers to Hollywood celebs hope the lucky numbers will make them lucky in love
Team Gluttony crowded around one of its members, admiring the tattoo he'd just gotten on his bicep--the highlight of a day spent hitting the Las Vegas hot spots.
Major real estate forecasters are looking for prices to bounce along the bottom this year and next and fully recover by 2009.
It's that time of year again. Time to get out the old crystal ball and take a look at how this year's playoff races are going to shake out. (Of course, if the crystal ball were so good it would be in Las Vegas, but that's another story).
There's a lot of talk lately about either the National Basketball Association or National Hockey League moving a team to Las Vegas.
SI.com's experts weigh in with their predictions for this Sunday's race in Las Vegas.
We came, we saw, we gambled, we drank. The NBA's 2007 version of All-Star Weekend has come and gone, and those of us who lived through are all better off for the experience. The weekend began Friday morning, when I was standing at the baggage claim at McCarran Airport in Vegas and heard the following announcement: "Will the Laker Girls please report to the information counter?" Then, after the game ended Sunday night, Vegas mayor Oscar Goodman hit the interview room with two showgirls, one of whom accidentally had an important body part showing. (If you didn't think sportswriters were agile, you should have seen some of them moving at breakneck speed when word of that sighting spread.)
LAS VEGAS -- I've never taken part in a red carpet line before a game. Usually these star-studded affairs are reserved for award shows and movie premieres, but then again I'm at the NBA All-Star Game in Las Vegas and any premonitions (or inhibitions) I may have had 72 hours ago have long been thrown out the window. Since I'm walking on uncharted territory here I decide to partner up with someone who's dealt with his fair share of celebrities over the years -- Robin Leach.
LAS VEGAS -- For a city located in the desert, Las Vegas doesn't typically embrace the sun. Residents are known to stay indoors for days at a time when the temperatures hit 100 degrees. Casinos are built without windows, the better to keep high rollers at the tables.
LAS VEGAS -- The All-Stars were warming up, all 24 of them squeezed within a court that looked smaller than ever. They were surrounded on their outskirts by TV cameramen in uniform black shirts, league executives and announcers in dark suits and mascots in silly furry animal costumes. ``After so much sweating and drinking,'' observed a journalist visiting from a foreign country, pointing to the world's most talented giants, ``isn't it time for one of those guys to throw up on the court? These guys haven't been sleeping for two days.''
With the NBA All-Star Game hitting Las Vegas this weekend, it's only a matter of time before an NBA franchise relocates to Sin City for good. This, of course, comes after commissioner David Stern and his fellow sporting chiefs have spent years decrying the evils of gambling. But hey, if that's the way they want to play it, the 10 Spot is happy to jump aboard. Here's an early line on potential bets for that inaugural season of the Las Vegas Grizzlies, Hornets or SuperStrippers:
For the millions of Americans who gamble on sports, predominantly with illegal bookmakers or nefarious Web sites, the arrival of NBA All-Star Weekend to Las Vegas is equivalent to the Berlin Wall coming down.
So many products, so little time.
Two students were shot outside a Las Vegas high school Tuesday, a school police official said.
Las Vegas police said officers shot a man holding a child at knifepoint Tuesday inside the city's McCarran International Airport.
SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) - To find hotspots for job growth, you only have to look south.
Two former Chinese bankers and their wives have been indicted in Las Vegas in connection with a massive scheme to steal and launder nearly half a billion dollars from the Bank of China, Justice Department officials announced Tuesday.
If the typical car show is like a three ring circus, the annual Specialty Equipment Market Association's annual Las Vegas trade show is like the world's biggest side show.
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas ... especially if you can't break 90.
On its surface Las Vegas seems to offer a lot of variety. Within a few blocks you can be in New York City, Paris, Cairo, or Venice. Yet most of the big hotels are owned by a decreasing number of co...
Back in Home Economics class I remember we were given a guide that told us what percent of our income should go toward various expenses (mortgage, insurance, food, transportation, etc.) Where can I find something similar today?
In the 1990s, Flippers were stock jockeys who finagled their way into initial public offerings, only to flip them days or hours later for big profits.
Showtime in tech land
BEND, Ore. (CNN/Money) - In Las Vegas, it's only a matter of time before your luck changes. So after enjoying the nation's most robust real estate market, homeowners there may soon discover what gamblers have always known: Fast money moves in two directions.
Think of a game. Any game. Now try to put a bet on it. There's a fair chance that in Las Vegas someone will give you odds and take your money.
Las Vegas has hit the jackpot by returning to its roots.
Bend, Ore. (CNN/Money) - People are heading to Las Vegas with hope of hitting the jackpot. They're not on the Strip, but in housing developments in and around the city.
What makes a place great to live in? Some people naturally gravitate toward suburban subdivisions with lush lawns, comfortable homes and school districts where everyone's above average. Others crave the stimulation of busy downtown streets and a rich variety of people, ideas and diversions. And whether you prefer a desert vista or a skyscraper view, well, you're right.
Mixed feelings are practically a civic duty if you live in Las Vegas. You curse the 30 million tourists who clog the city each year, but enjoy the swank restaurants and luxe shopping malls they keep in business.
John Wilhelm knows that soon he'll be playing hardball with hotel owners from Philadelphia to Las Vegas to Honolulu. Contracts with thousands of unionized hotel workers in those and other cities ar...
On the day that President Bush asked Americans to observe a national day of mourning, all the Las Vegas casinos owned by the giant MGM Mirage shut down their tables for a minute of silence. After t...
You're heading out to Las Vegas for a convention. You haven't been there in years, so you figure you'll do the full Vegas experience. You'll cruise the Strip, play a little blackjack, check out the...
For years, your odds in Las Vegas were better at baccarat than they were at the dinner table. But today Vegas is a boomtown, and some great restaurants have opened in the splashy new hotels on the ...
It's standing room only in the Platinum Room at Bally's Resort Hotel in Las Vegas on April 2 as Elaine Garzarelli, Wall Street prognosticator and mover of markets, strides across the stage like a c...
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Is Sin City really becoming a Mecca for vacationing families? Well, up to a point. More parents are making the pilgrimage with kids in tow. Theme parks and other attractions now sit side by side wi...
Dear Morningliner: On a recent visit to Las Vegas, I felt the need for some inspirational literature, like The Power of Positive Thinking , by the late Norman Vincent Peale, but the Gamblers Book S...
Wholesome enough for a church outing. As antiseptic as a modern theme park. Able to attract free-spending families in a single swoop. Look, it's a Disneyland. It's a futuristic fun world. No, betch...
Las Vegas tends to be different, but lately it has become a little wackier than usual. Wayne Newton files for bankruptcy, sky-diving Elvis impersonators invade the city in a new movie, and now mana...
City father Bugsy Siegel would be proud of the thousands of new products displayed at January's Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas. The exhibits included those pictured here: rain- and dog-proof ou...
We read the other day that nonstop air service from the New York area to Las Vegas is again available to ordinary mortals -- it never went away for the high rollers -- and had the darndest free ass...
The push is on. Las Vegas, long known for its slot machines, feathered showgirls and its UNLV Runnin' Rebels college basketball team, is trading glitz for respectability and -- believe it or not --...
To hear the folks at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas tell it, there was nothing unusual about a busload of Russian nuclear scientists, en route to a weapons test site, pulling up on a Sunday evening...
From his luxurious penthouse atop the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas, Ginji Yasuda can keep a constant watch on the gamblers in his casino below, thanks to an elaborate NEC eye-in-the-sky camera system...
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