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• Harry Reid International Airport handled 4.1 million passengers in August, down 9.2 percent from a year earlier and its 19th consecutive monthly decline, with domestic traffic off 10.2 percent after the Spirit shutdown. — Review-Journal, Sep 30

• The LVCVA counted 3 million August visitors, down 4.3 percent, with the average room rate off 7.4 percent to $150.32, while the Nevada Gaming Control Board reported statewide gaming win up 3.1 percent to $1.27 billion and Strip revenue nearly flat at $684.1 million. — Review-Journal, Sep 30

• Brightline West says its Las Vegas-to-Southern California line is unaffected by affiliate Brightline’s Chapter 11 filing in Florida, with the project now priced at $20.1 billion, up from $9 billion, and service pushed to late 2029. — Review-Journal, Sep 28

• The NBA narrowed its Las Vegas expansion field to three ownership groups, with the franchise and an arena together expected to run $12 billion to $13 billion. — NVBEX, Oct 3

• The Las Vegas Global Economic Alliance (LVGEA), the region's economic development organization, will unveil a new name on Oct. 15. — LVGEA, Sep 28

Real Estate & Development

• Agora Realty & Management broke ground on Hylo Park, a $375 million athletics-centered redevelopment of the 25-acre former Fiesta Rancho casino site in North Las Vegas. — Review-Journal, Sep 30

• UNLV listed a 10.2-acre vacant parcel at Tropicana Avenue and University Center Drive for about $39.9 million, roughly $4 million an acre, with FAA height limits likely to constrain what a buyer can build beside the airport runways. — Review-Journal, Oct 2

• VAC Development started construction on The Cliff, a roughly $70 million conversion of a two-building Henderson office property on St. Rose Parkway into a dining and retail complex that is already 40 percent leased. — Review-Journal, Sep 30

• Forge Industries will build its first U.S. plant in North Las Vegas, an $18 million, 105,000-square-foot facility designed to turn hard-to-recycle waste into nearly 500,000 metric tons a year of coal-replacement fuel by the end of 2027. — Review-Journal, Sep 30

• Rider Levett Bucknall’s third-quarter crane index put Las Vegas among only three of 18 U.S. cities where crane counts fell, citing a residential slowdown and fuel costs that spiked above $5 a gallon. — NVBEX, Sep 28

Policy & Government

• The Las Vegas Valley Water District will begin fining businesses and HOAs that irrigate decorative grass on Jan. 1, with penalties running from $80 for a first offense on a residential meter to $5,120 for a fifth offense on the largest meters. — Review-Journal, Sep 28

• Gov. Joe Lombardo issued an emergency regulation funding school districts at their budgeted enrollment for 120 days, heading off a $51.6 million midyear cut at the Clark County School District with monthly payments starting at about $13.4 million statewide, and left a long-term fix to the Legislature that convenes Feb. 1. — The Nevada Independent, Sep 30

• The Nevada Gaming Control Board said a 57-year-old Las Vegas man was indicted on money-laundering and unlicensed-gaming charges after a multi-year investigation with the FBI found he took sports bets through a Costa Rica website and mixed the proceeds with two businesses he owned. — CDC Gaming, Oct 2

• Kalshi’s co-founder told the Review-Journal the prediction-market platform is not a sportsbook and should be allowed to operate nationwide, as its fight with regulators in 39 states including Nevada became the dominant topic at a G2E drawing an estimated 25,000 attendees. — Review-Journal, Sep 29

• The Henderson Police Department rejected a proposed ICE training site in Southern Nevada, telling a joint meeting with the city that the request violates the department’s existing agreement with the agency. — The Nevada Independent, Sep 29

Gaming & Tourism

• High-end baccarat was the only thing holding the Las Vegas Strip in positive territory in August, with $848.8 million wagered and $155 million collected, both up about 34 percent, while non-baccarat table revenue fell more than 19 percent. — The Nevada Independent, Oct 1

• The chief executives of MGM Resorts, Caesars Entertainment and Wynn Resorts told G2E they will hold high-end room rates even at the cost of occupancy, arguing Las Vegas rates still run 40 percent below New York and 7 percent below Los Angeles. — Review-Journal, Sep 29

• Boyd Gaming unveiled the finished casino-floor overhaul of the Suncoast in Summerlin, a multiyear project that since 2023 has added a high-limit slot room, a stadium-style sportsbook, a bingo room, a food hall and a 70-seat center bar, with hotel rooms and the bowling center due by year’s end. — Review-Journal, Sep 30

• The Mob Museum welcomed its 5 millionth visitor on Sept. 30, 14 years after opening in downtown’s former federal courthouse, and now draws more than 400,000 guests a year as Nevada’s most-visited museum. — Vegas Publicity, Oct 1

• FlixBus launched one direct daily trip between Las Vegas and Fresno on Oct. 1, stopping in Barstow, Los Angeles and Bakersfield, with one-way fares listed from about $65 to $92. — Review-Journal, Oct 1

Jobs & Workforce

• Sixty-four Nevada FedEx delivery drivers joined a 10,000-plus national group suing the company for unpaid overtime, filing in U.S. District Court in Nevada on Sept. 29 and 30 and arguing FedEx is a joint employer despite routing them through intermediary service providers. — Review-Journal, Oct 2

• A Legislative Counsel Bureau audit of Clark County School District teacher recruiting from July 2021 through June 2024 found two of five trips examined wasted public funds on extended beachfront stays in Miami and Honolulu with few hires to show for it, and the district accepted all nine recommendations. — Review-Journal, Sep 29

• UNLV launched Destination Degree, five programs opening to a first cohort in fall 2027 that waive returning students’ institutional debt as they earn credits, and added an Earn to Learn partnership worth up to $4,000 an academic year. — Review-Journal, Oct 1

• Nevada was the only one of five Southwestern states analyzed by UNLV researchers where generations born before 1981 outnumber Gen Z, with Gen X (649,367) and Baby Boomers (640,390) each edging out Gen Z (640,239) in 2024, pointing to rising demand for caregivers and a smaller generation entering the workforce. — Review-Journal, Sep 30

Cost of Living

• Freddie Mac put the average 30-year mortgage rate at 7.28 percent Thursday, the largest weekly jump in four years and the highest level in nearly three, and Las Vegas Realtors brought in the National Association of Realtors’ chief economist to tell members how to sell into it. — Review-Journal, Oct 1

• AAA put the Las Vegas Valley average for regular unleaded at $5.50 a gallon Wednesday, up 15 cents in a week and 67 cents in a month, leaving the area 11 cents short of its record $5.61 set in June 2022. — Review-Journal, Oct 1

• Sky Quarry restarted the Eagle Springs Refinery near Ely, Nevada’s only crude oil refinery, after winning a state air permit and making about $300,000 in repairs; the small plant produces diesel, naphtha and paving asphalt for a state that has long relied on fuel refined elsewhere. — Review-Journal, Sep 28

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