Sullivan & Cromwell, Nassau County’s outside attorney handling Hofstra University’s lawsuit over the Las Vegas Sands casino proposal, could be paid a maximum of $2.5 million, with $1 million “encumbered at this time,” meaning that’s…

New York State hit the jackpot last year, raking in $4.8 billion in revenues from a growing number of licensed casinos, expanded lottery games and, most notably, the legalization of sports betting, both in-person and…

Nassau County on Friday asked an appellate court to overturn a lower court’s decision to void a 99-year lease agreement that would allow Las Vegas Sands to develop a $4 billion casino resort on the…

The balance of political power in the Nassau County Legislature could tilt this November as four long-serving incumbents step down, leaving the largest number of open seats on the 19-member panel in more 20 years.

Long Island’s leading waste incinerator for years dumped ash at Brookhaven landfill that it couldn’t be certain was nonhazardous, with company employees acknowledging in internal email that they were “lucky” state regulators didn’t challenge them,…

After more than six months, the state’s Gaming Facility Location Board finally released the first round of questions from potential applicants for the three downstate casino licenses — and its answers. The release of the…

At one end of Las Vegas Sands’ proposed $4 billion casino resort is Nassau Community College, the county’s 2-year institution that has signed on as its primary employee training center. At the other end is…

A year ago, anticipation about the establishment of three downstate casinos was just beginning to grow. Billions of dollars in investment, game-changing economic activity and enormous tax revenue implications were on the line. Communities considered…

A day after Democratic Queens Borough President Donovan Richards said Nassau Coliseum should be among the options for housing some of the thousands of migrants to New York City, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, a…

Sands antes up – Las Vegas Sands submitted a petition to the Town of Hempstead Thursday, officially seeking the approval of its conceptual master plan and a zoning change that would create the “Mitchel Field…