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It’s perhaps the biggest betting night of the year with millions of dollars in bets placed on the Super Bowl. It’s also reinforcing Las Vegas as a destination for the big game without being a host city.

The Wrangler National Finals Rodeo (NFR), the season-ending championship of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA), has been a December fixture in Vegas since 1985. Benny “the Cowboy” Binion, a founding father of Vegas and ProRodeo Hall of Famer, was instrumental in luring NFR from its longtime home in Oklahoma City, along with Las Vegas Events, a private, not-for-profit arm of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) focused on special events.

The Wrangler National Finals Rodeo (NFR), the season-ending championship of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA), has been a December fixture in Vegas since 1985. Benny “the Cowboy” Binion, a founding father of Vegas and ProRodeo Hall of Famer, was instrumental in luring NFR from its longtime home in Oklahoma City, along with Las Vegas Events, a private, not-for-profit arm of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) focused on special events.

The addition of the 65,000-seat facility to the Las Vegas tourism landscape will attract thousands who might not normally visit the city, industry players say.

“Virtual meetings were a great interim solution, but from what we hear from our convention customers, nothing replaces in-person convening for networking and getting deals done.”

How we develop and what we do about housing, education, jobs, water and more will all have an impact when it comes to how we sustain our growth. This could give our state the opportunity to become the face of the nation and the chance to serve as a model for the rest of the country.

Las Vegas could soon become a majority-minority city.

Las Vegas’s tourism recovery has outpaced San Francisco’s, as visitors and business...

Clark County has again dipped its hand into a reserve fund in order to make it bond payment for the $1.97 billion Allegiant Stadium.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Clark County officials in Nevada have again dipped into the debt...