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This Oct. 10, 2013 photo shows the JA Nugget Hotel &amp; Casino in Sparks, Nev. Casino operators in the greater Reno/Tahoe area are doubling down on their properties. The more than $100 million spent or tabbed for renovations at regional hotel-casinos includes $50 million at JA Nugget, $20 million at Boomtown, $30 million at Grand Sierra Resort, $20 million at the Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe in Incline Village and more than $40 million at the Horizon at South Lake Tahoe. (AP Photo/Reno Gazette-Journal, Tim Dunn)

Reno-Tahoe casinos anteing up on renovations

By ROB SABO - Associated Press

Reno-Tahoe casinos anteing up on renovations

By ROB SABO - Associated Press

This Sept. 9, 2012 photo, lights form the Laughlin Casino reflect off the Colorado River at sunset in Laughlin, Nev. Laughlin, an unincorporated town of 7,300, is about 100 miles south of Las Vegas and popular with bargain-hunting retirees who drive in for sometimes months-long getaways to the region. The town, with nine casino-resorts clustered along the banks of the Colorado River, lured 2 million visitors last year and generated $455 million in gambling revenue. But tourism, the only major industry in Laughlin, has been declining for years, even as Las Vegas bounces back and Mesquite, another small resort destination in the region, stabilized. Laughlin’s annual visitor volume has fallen 60 percent from 5 million about 15 years ago. Gambling revenue rose to $631 million in 2007 but has dropped every year since. (AP Photo/ Las Vegas Sun, Steve Marcus)

Laughlin: The gambling town the recovery forgot

By ELI SEGALL - Associated Press