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Fontainebleau Las Vegas employees will get access to child care, fertility, gym, and wellness programs, according to a news release. Fontainebleau is working with child care platform Tootris for a range of options, including full- and part-time care and services during non-standard work hours, in an exclusive deal, the release states. The roughly 6,500 workers will also receive up to $2,700 annually in financial assistance for childcare expenses.

On Feb. 23, John Richards traveled more than 100 miles to place bets on the Oscars. He took a train from Washington, D.C., to Wilmington, Del., and then hopped into an Uber car to take him to a truck stop in New Jersey.

More than one in 10 Nevadans work in the hospitality and entertainment industry. About 360,000 people, in everything from singing and acting to serving and bartending to cleaning rooms and checking people in and out of hotels.

After unveiling its plans for the highly anticipated Oasis Pool Deck earlier in the week, the 67-story, vertically integrated luxury resort with deep roots in the seven-decade-year history of the Fontainebleau brand, Fontainebleau Las Vegas, has exciting news for its employees.

Employees at the newest resort on the Strip can get additional well-being and family support in new benefits announced Thursday. Existing and future Fontainebleau employees — called members by the resort — will get access to child care, fertility, gym and wellness programs, according to a news release.

What was the name of that casino that shut its doors because it couldn’t pay off a huge jackpot? You know the one we’re talking about, right? It’s, oh yeah… NO CASINO EVER. The most commonly cited example of this myth is the Thunderbird Casino, which was located across the Las Vegas Strip from El Rancho Vegas.

The Specialty Food Association hosted eight graduate students and three professors from the University of Nevada Las Vegas (51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ), William F. Harrah College of Hospitality during the 2024 Winter Fancy Food Show. Featuring more than 1,000 companies and thousands of products from around the world, the Specialty Food Association (SFA) Winter Fancy Food Show ran from January 21-23 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Sharp. Translucent. Balanced. With its precision edges and even weight distribution, the dice used in a casino is not the same as board game dice, which has rounded edges, less than exact specifications, and solid surfaces you can’t see through. Casino dice, or in this context, the dice used in craps, essentially has one job: to protect the house.

It isn’t an easy analysis to make, considering economic impact numbers haven’t been fully calculated. But experts who monitor the economics of the city’s megaevents say it’s an apples-and-oranges comparison in which some elements of Formula One were better while some aspects of the Super Bowl prevailed.

Stadium, hotel, restaurant and other service-sector staffers may get only a small piece of the action as the NFL’s big game storms Sin City.

When legendary boxers Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao finally met in a super-fight in 2015, it became one of the biggest events ever in Las Vegas. Hundreds of thousands of spectators flocked to the desert. Not all of them could attend the fight, but they filled price-surged hotels, gambled and found thousands of other ways to spend their money. According to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, the estimated economic impact on Las Vegas was well over $150 million.

As the Super Bowl rolls into town, Las Vegas has completed its journey from Sin City to the sports capital of the US.