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Secret Vegas Hacks to Drastically Cut the Cost of Your Next Visit
Remember when you could visit Las Vegas without refinancing your home? While you can’t turn back the clock to the days of cheap buffets, free parking and comped hotel rooms for gambling $100, there are some money-saving hacks that most tourist don’t...
Las Vegas Installs License Plate-Reading Cameras
Ahead of Tuesday night’s New Year’s Eve celebration, the city of Las Vegas activated 22 new surveillance cameras along streets intersecting the Fremont Street Experience (FSE). These cameras actively scan for the license plates of stolen or wanted vehicles, notifying law enforcement...
Remembering the Legends Las Vegas Lost in 2024
Before the stroke of midnight delivers us into yet another calendar year, Casino.org stops to remember the Las Vegas icons we left behind in this one. Bob Newhart Bob Newhart died on July 18, after a series of brief illnesses, at 94....
Family of Man Allergic to Shellfish Sues Vegas Eatery for his Wrongful Death
Abraham Williams told his server at Beauty & Essex, an upscale restaurant at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, that he was allergic to shellfish when he ordered spaghettini with pesto sauce one evening last year. But shellfish is what he got, according...
NEW YEAR, NEW STUFF: What to Expect from Vegas in 2025
Las Vegas has mastered the art of transforming itself into ever better (and more expensive) permutations of its former self. While no new hotels will open next year, here are some of the more anticipated attractions, restaurants and residencies scheduled for 2025....
‘XMAS MIRACLE’: Donors Rally For Las Vegas Theater Burgled on Xmas Eve
Troy Heard knew something was off when he pushed open the back door to the Majestic, the Las Vegas community theater for which he works as artistic manager. Heard had locked it before he left for the day on Christmas Eve. Heard,...
Oakland A’s Prez Resigns, Raising Questions About Las Vegas Move
Dave Kaval, the public face of the Oakland Athletics’ relocation to Las Vegas, announced his resignation as team president on Friday. Kaval, who has led the team for eight years, will exit on Dec. 31. In a statement released by Major League...
Cali Cardrooms Spent $3M Attacking Lawmakers Who Supported Gambling Bill — AFTER it Passed!
In an extraordinary display of political vengeance, California cardrooms spent more than $3 million this year punishing lawmakers who supported a bill allowing their competitors, the state’s tribal casinos, to sue them for offering illegal card games. Senate Bill 549, also known...
VEGAS MYTHS RE-BUSTED: The Strip is the Brightest Place on Earth
EDITOR’S NOTE: “Vegas Myths Busted” publishes every Monday, with a bonus Flashback Friday edition. Today’s entry in our ongoing series originally ran on Oct. 30, 2023. On May 25, 2022, the “Cubby and Christine in the Morning” show on WLTW-FM/New York asked its listeners...
Top 10 Las Vegas Lies & the Truths They Hide
Las Vegas is a town predicated on pretend realities (and we’re not even talking about the one in which the Oakland A’s relocate to the Strip!) A unique language of pervasive mistruths must be penetrated to comprehend some of what's really being...
