LAS VEGAS – It's the question at the heart of a quagmire Nevada has yet to figure out: Should casinos be open? COVID-19 cases are climbing here. Death tolls are breaking records.

In Las Vegas, MGM Resorts International and Wynn Resorts announced earlier in the week they planned to close their properties. Tuesday morning, three more casino resorts joined in. The MGM casino ...

Coronavirus cases in Las Vegas have been increasing in lock-step with the state's "phase 2" reopening, which started before casinos opened back up. Phase 2 allowed schools, gyms, museums, massage ...

Las Vegas gets look at some hotel COVID data, but what does it mean? Signs inside Wynn Las Vegas informing guests about coronavirus testing on Saturday, March 14, 2020, in Las Vegas.

MGM Resorts and Caesars own most of the hotel properties on the Las Vegas Strip, which has more than 150,000 hotel rooms. Each company furloughed more than 60,000 employees in March.

LAS VEGAS – The spread of COVID-19 has triggered an unprecedented shutdown on the Las Vegas Strip. Health officials on Monday reported the Nevada's first pandemic-related death, and the number ...

LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- At the heart of a nearly vacant Las Vegas Strip, Caesar's iconic palace stands empty. The hotel's doors are locked for the first time in its storied 54-year history.

Las Vegas Sands (LVS), which owns the Venetian and Palazzo casinos on the Strip as well as the Sands Expo & Convention Center, has also suffered. Shares are down about 35% so far in 2020.

The last time casinos closed in Las Vegas was for John F. Kennedy's funeral on Nov. 25, 1963. Michael Green, a history professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, said in an email to The ...