With casinos launching fireworks throughout the Independence Day weekend, Las Vegas police are out in “full force” patrolling the streets, according to Capt. Dori Koren.

Once a staple of Reno's dining scene, all but two of the city's casino buffets remain closed with no immediate plans to reopen despite the easing of COVID-19 pandemic-related restrictions.

Gaming and tourism industry insiders were expecting hundreds of thousands of visitors to descend on Las Vegas for what promised to be the busiest holiday weekend since before the pandemic.

The integrated resort had several dozen apparently fake Google reviews as recently as Sunday. It wasn’t clear from where or whom the reviews originated, but the property’s Google review page was barren by Tuesday.

Las Vegas is throwing a party. That’s when fireworks will explode off of seven casino rooftops to celebrate the Fourth of July. It will also mark more than one month of casinos being at 100% capacity.

Who knew that the World of Concrete Convention this week would spark the recovery of Las Vegas as the first big event to take place in more than a year in the country, much less in the state of Nevada?

The nation’s first big convention since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic kicked off this week in Las Vegas. Tourism experts hope the World of Concrete event will spur the city’s casino-based economy.

A rapidly recovering Las Vegas will take center stage in the global tourism industry on Monday, when World of Concrete is the first major trade show in the United States since the COVID pandemic wiped out the lucrative business of conventions and meetings.