State regulators late last week dealt a setback to efforts to build a casino on a 33-acre site in Everett. Gov. Charlie Baker’s energy and environmental-affairs chief, Matt Beaton, on Friday evening reported that the project “does not adequately and properly comply: with a review under the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act.
After more than a decade of unencumbered growth, Macau is facing its first gambling slowdown since the enclave reverted back to China in 1999. The latest reading shows gambling revenue shrank almost 40% year-over-year.
Pearson announced today a new partnership with the University of California at Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering. The partnership will grow current online engineering degree programs, with specializations in Bioengineering, Electrical Engineering , Environmental Engineering Systems , Materials at the Nanoscale, and Mechanical Engineering.
The total lunar eclipse of April 4, 2015 dominates this stunning photo by veteran astrophotographer Tyler Leavitt in Las Vegas, Nevada. Leavitt captured the eclipse with the Stratosphere hotel and casino.
Stratosphere headliner Frankie Moreno performs during the Nevada Sesquicentennial All-Star Concert on Monday, Sept. 22, 2014, at the Smith Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Las Vegas.
Consistently, one of the more popular stocks people enter into their stock options watchlist at Stock Options Channel is Las Vegas Sands Corp . So this week we highlight one interesting put contract, and one interesting call contract, from the January 2016 expiration for LVS.
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Country superstar Kenny Chesney announced from The Joint’s stage this weekend that he is adding two more Las Vegas shows to The Big Revival Tour. Chesney will return to The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino on Friday, July 3 and Saturday, July 4. Tickets go on sale Friday, April 10 at 10 a.m. “We helped open this place [six] years ago,” Chesney announced while on stage at The Joint.
Tonight, tonight. The Smashing Pumpkins team up with Marilyn Manson to bring their co-headlining The End Times tour to Las Vegas in July.
On Tuesday, April 7, the Pennsylvania Lottery will begin sales of Cash4LifeT, a new $2 terminal-based game offering a top prize of $1,000 a day for life and a second prize of $1,000 a week for life.
Revere Mayor Daniel Rizzo yesterday slammed the controversial sale of MBTA land to Wynn Resorts in Everett, calling it the latest example of a rigged system designed to award the coveted Boston-area casino license to the Las Vegas gaming giant. “This is another example of them trying to trample over any opposition,” Rizzo said.
When former Las Vegas mayor Jan Jones Blackhurst began working at Caesars Entertainment about 15 years ago, it was a very different company. Then known as Harrah’s Entertainment, the company had just moved its headquarters from Tennessee to Las Vegas, so it was, in many ways, the new kid on the block.
As a result, companies like Las Vegas Sands will continue to struggle. Yet even the most bearish estimates of a 30% decline in gaming revenue compared to 2014 would put Macau’s total gaming revenue at around $31 billion, which is still more than 3 times as much as 2015 expected gaming revenue for Las Vegas.
Wynn Resorts is promising a swift response to concerns from the state’s environmental secretary, who raised legal questions about the acquisition of MBTA-owned land critical to the casino’s traffic plans. Wynn Everett President Robert DeSalvio says Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs Matthew Beaton found the gambling company’s plan “suitable on substantially all of the 59 conditions” for the project identified by Beaton’s predecessor.
A state lawmaker says Ohio’s casinos that have fallen short of their financial promises shouldn’t be allowed to use freebies to attract high rollers. Legislation that is set to be proposed in the coming week would stop casinos from giving out promotional gambling credits if the casinos haven’t met revenue projections that were made before Ohio voters approved the casinos six years ago.
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During the summer of 2014, casino industry investors watched as Japanese lawmakers discussed the possibility of bringing a bill to their congress that would legalize gambling. This bill would have paved the way for historically Las Vegas-focused companies such as Las Vegas Sands ( Then the summer legislative session came and went with a lot of discussion, but no bill was ever presented.
Gov. Charlie Baker’s administration is holding up a permit that Wynn Resorts needs to build its planned $1.7 billion casino complex in Everett. The Boston Globe reports that the administration refused to issue a crucial permit on Friday due to concerns over environmental issues.
No one matched the Mega Millions winning numbers on April 3, 2015, increasing the next jackpot to $30 million. However, one ticket holder from Michigan $5 million.
Hakkasan Las Vegas Restaurant was a celebrity hot spot, as many of the most buzzworthy names in entertainment were spotted as they relished on signature bites and libations at the most in-demand Cantonese restaurant inside MGM Grand Hotel & Casino . Check out photos below! Arriving first to the destination just after 10 p.m., the lovely and talented actress/songstress Katharine McPhee was welcomed with open arms by the adoring staff as she took her seat in the private dining room.