After the end of the world: the eerie silence of the Las Vegas Strip
The empty strip, shut down for the first time since the JFK assassination, shows the striking toll the coronavirus crisis has taken on fun and leisureCoronavirus – latest US updatesCoronavirus – latest...
View ArticleAfter outrage over homeless sleeping in parking lot, Vegas now touts tented...
Opening of isolation complex comes as number of Covid-19 cases statewide approaches 3,000, with at least 114 deathsCoronavirus – latest US updatesCoronavirus – latest global updatesSee all our...
View Article'I'd love everything open': Las Vegas mayor's coronavirus interview sparks ire
Carolyn Goodman faces criticism after she cites viruses having ‘been here for years’ in discussion with CNN’s Anderson CooperCoronavirus – latest US updatesCoronavirus – latest global updatesSee all...
View ArticleRoy Horn of Las Vegas's famous Siegfried and Roy act dies from Covid-19
Horn was famed for introducing a pet cheetah to the magic show and was mauled on stage by a tiger in 2003Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageRoy Horn of Siegfried & Roy, the...
View ArticleRoy Horn of Siegfried & Roy dies from coronavirus – video obituary
Roy Horn, one half of a duo whose magic tricks astonished millions, has died from coronavirus complications. He was 75. Siegfried and Roy were an institution in Las Vegas, performing six shows a week,...
View Article'We're on virus time': Las Vegas on edge amid reopening gamble
Workers demand to see companies’ plans as city centered on hospitality braces for an uncertain futureCoronavirus – live US updatesLive global updatesThe Las Vegas Strip had a brief jolt of life this...
View ArticleCan the Las Vegas Raiders replace the fanaticism of the Black Hole?
The team is scheduled to play its first season in Nevada after moving from California. Whether they can replicate Oakland’s fans is debatableMark Acasio says he and his gorilla suit are joining the Las...
View ArticleGregory Tyree Boyce: Twilight actor dies at age 30
Boyce, who played Tyler Crowley in the 2008 film, and his girlfriend Natalie Adenike Adepoju were found dead in Las VegasGregory Tyree Boyce, an actor in the film Twilight, and his girlfriend Natalie...
View ArticleBloody Nose, Empty Pockets: the story of the drunkest film of the year
After impressing Sundance audiences, the unconventional semi-constructed documentary shows life in a Vegas dive bar as it closes downIn vino veritas, goes the old proverb, but the truth about truth is...
View ArticleCaesars approaches UK's William Hill over potential takeover
One of the UK’s largest high street bookmakers at the centre of a possible US bidding warWilliam Hill, one of the UK’s largest and best-known high street bookmakers, is at the centre of a possible US...
View ArticleVictims and relatives of Las Vegas Strip mass shooting to receive $800m...
Deal comes on eve of third anniversary of attack that killed 58 people and injured more than 850 othersMore than 4,400 relatives and victims of the Las Vegas Strip shooting, the deadliest in recent US...
View ArticleVirtual ball drop: New Year's Eve events cancelled across US as Covid cases...
New York City has announced that Times Square will not be open to the public as other cities scrap in-person gatheringsWhile the crystal-encrusted New Year’s Eve ball will drop in Times Square at...
View ArticleBloody Nose, Empty Pockets review – bittersweet bar-room endgame
Street-cast characters play fictionalised versions of themselves in this riotous documentary about a closing-down Las Vegas watering holeIt’s the “last day in paradise” for Las Vegas dive bar the...
View ArticleSheldon Adelson, casino magnate and major Trump donor, dies aged 87
Wife Miriam Adelson announces death after ‘long illness’Adelson backed Israeli settlements in occupied territoriesUS politics – live coverageSheldon Adelson, a casino magnate, perennial top single...
View ArticleMarvin Hagler obituary
One of the greatest world middleweight boxing champions of all timeMarvin Hagler, who has died aged 66, is recognised as one of boxing’s greatest champions, holding the world middleweight title from...
View ArticleArmy of the Dead review – Zack Snyder’s zombie splatterfest is a wit-free zone
A muscle-bound crew of mercenaries infiltrate a Las Vegas full of zombies in Snyder’s uninspired Netflix horror-thrillerZombies. They grunt. They lurch inelegantly through dystopian ruined streets,...
View ArticleReal Water, a premium bottled water, recalled amid death and liver illnesses
A consent decree order stopped the production and distribution of the product whose packaging touted its healthy detoxifying propertiesFederal authorities have ordered a complete recall of the Las...
View ArticleLas Vegas’s new strategy for tackling drought – banning ‘useless grass’
First-in-the-nation ban targets grass at office parks, street medians and housing development entrances that no one usesIn Sin City, one thing that will soon become unforgivable is useless grass.A new...
View Article‘It’s brutal’: Las Vegas cooks amid blazing heatwave – and it’s going to get...
Tourists line the air-conditioned casino labyrinths amid record temperatures – but many locals are not able to take cover indoorsBy midnight on Wednesday, two days into a scorching heat wave to hit the...
View Article‘We live in a desert. We have to act like it’: Las Vegas faces reality of...
Water investigators track down wasteful homeowners and public turf torn up to conserve scarce water suppliesInvestigator Perry Kaye jammed the brakes of his government-issued vehicle to survey the...
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