Las Vegas, The America's Playground
Las Vegas widely famous as the America's Playground is a city of southeast Nevada near the California and Arizona borders. Las Vegas, the largest city in Nevada, is one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States.
Las Vegas also known as the Entertainment Capital of the World is a major tourist center known for its casinos. The city is world famous for its nightclubs, casinos, boxing championship matches, entertainment enterprises, music, sports, gambling, and amusement centers. The Stratosphere Tower is the country's tallest observation tower. The city is known for gaming equipment manufacturing and as a commercial hub of a ranching and mining area.
Las Vegas has earned many nicknames such as the City of lights , Glitter Gulch , Sin City and Lost Wages . The city is also famous for its nightlife.
The Las Vegas hotel industry, gambling, entertainment, theme parks, resorts, and tourist-oriented industries are the major corner stones of its economy. The las vegas hotel industry fetches the major part of the revenue of the city. Its las vegas hotels are famous in the world.
The campus of the University of Nevada, Nellis Air Force Base, Hoover Dam, and Museums including ones devoted to natural history, old neon signs from the strip, the entertainer Liberace, atomic testing etc, are the other attractions of the city.
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27 Aug 2008 at 8:07pm MGM Mirage employees, through the MGM Mirage Voice Foundation, presented $6.9 million to the local community. Employees raised the money, an all-time high, during the foundation's annual fundraising campaign earlier this year. Read more...
27 Aug 2008 at 12:27am Close to an inch of rain fell in parts of Lake Havasu City Monday night from a series of dramatic thunderstorms that left city streets littered with debris and palm trees scorched by lightening. Read more...
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26 Aug 2008 at 11:20am A chance of thunderstorms lingers for the Las Vegas Valley today after yesterday afternoon's storms brought lightning, thunder, rain and penny-sized hail to western Henderson and downtown Las Vegas, the National Weather Service said. Read more...
26 Aug 2008 at 10:25am The last remaining park in downtown Las Vegas is being closed Monday night. Frank Wright Plaza, located next door to City Hall, will be fenced off Tuesday morning. And the people who use the park are not happy. And News 3's Steve Crupi reports that ... Read more...
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