The family behind Primm Valley Resorts says it is working to revive the fading Nevada gambling hub after mass closure announcements sparked fears that it's about to become a ghost town.

The family behind Primm Valley Resorts says it is working to revive the fading Nevada gambling hub after mass closure announcements sparked fears that it's about to become a ghost town.

Las Vegas has never been an all-inclusive destination. At least not truly. The familiar model, where a set and often discounted price covers a room, meals, drinks and activities, seems fundamentally at odds with how the city traditionally does business. Lose, or spend, enough at the tables or slots, and most of those things would be on the house, arguably creating a comparable perception of value.

Opposition websites, attack signs and mirroring allegations that their fellow Republican opponent is not as conservative as they claim are at the center of an increasingly antagonistic primary race for an open Clark County Commission seat.

From lotteries to casinos, horse tracks to mobile sports betting, tribal bingo halls to prediction markets, most of America is awash in gambling as the nation approaches its 250th anniversary. But gambling was popular in America before there even WAS an America. Native Americans played games with sticks and dice, including a hide-the-stone-in-a-moccasin game that could be the precursor of the modern shell game. British settlers brought their country's love of gambling to the new world, betting on horse races, playing cards and dice games in taverns, and using lotteries to help finance public works projects, including the very establishment of some of the American colonies long before they declared independence in 1776.

The barricades are up at Whiskey Pete’s, and same goes for Buffalo Bill’s, albeit with colorful banners fastened to its roadblocks that declare: “The Party is at Primm Valley.” With three hotel-casino properties in this remote spot outside Las Vegas, Primm Valley Resort is the only one still open. But the party, or what’s left of it, is about to end.