Lori Orchow Haney won’t be heading to work next Monday morning. She’s already arranged to take the day off for a very special trip: heading to the Cracker Barrel restaurant at the Silverton to be there on opening day.

Las Vegas is a hot market for minibars, but it won’t be forever. The hospitality industry is on the cusp of seeing a new type of guest amenity in place of minibars: robots.

Bo Bernhard, the executive director of the International Gaming Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, was named to the Philip G. Satre chair in gaming studies at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Bo Bernhard, executive director of UNLV’s International Gaming Institute, has been named the Philip G. Satre Chair in Gaming Studies at both UNLV and the University of Nevada, Reno.

A top UNLV gambling academic has been named to a chair position at UNR in a move aimed at fostering greater collaboration between the historic collegiate rivals.

Experts with the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and researchers who study the hospitality industry say it’s too early to tell if there will be any long-term implications on visitation from Great Britain as a result of the Brexit vote.

UNLV’s hotel college has reversed course on an unpopular decision to lump classes into a single area of study, bringing luster of sorts back to a prominent academic program that had been grappling with low morale.

Nevada’s Board of Regents will gather in Reno on Thursday to consider a wide range of issues facing the state’s public colleges, making decisions that affect everything from class offerings and student tuition to presidential hires and school construction.

Gov. Brian Sandoval said Tuesday he will both endorse and contribute to Republican lawmakers who voted for his ambitious budget and the tax package to pay for it.

Through a chandelier-lit hallway in the Paris Las Vegas, hundreds of men and women shuffled past giant standing letters spelling “UNLV” en route to the university’s William F. Harrah College of Hospitality Management fundraiser, UNLVino, for the Grand Tasting on Saturday night.

To the rest of the world, it looks as if Las Vegas is simply doing what Sin City does best: drink, drink again, then drink some more. But the three days of Champagne, sake and wines serve a worthwhile purpose.

UNLVino has become more than an annually held institution that provides scholarships and experience for University of Nevada, Las Vegas hospitality students. The 42-year old fundraising event emphasizes varietals, vintages and vineyards, and although the focus of the celebration is the grape, UNLVino also attracts some of the finest talent working in the kitchens of one of the world’s cuisine capitals as well as UNLV’s culinary program. That talent in turn attracts thousands of wine connoisseurs with sybaritic appetites year after year.