Stateline casinos end ’14 on up note

While gaming revenue declined throughout Nevada in 2014, local casinos ended the year on an up note.

The statewide and December numbers were released Jan. 30 by the Gaming Control Board.

Statewide the casinos took in just more than $11 billion in 2014, a 1.1 percent decline from 2013. The numbers had been increasing the previous years since the end of the recession. In December, the state was down 8.06 percent from the previous year.

For December, the Stateline casinos were up 1.05 percent to nearly $16 million. And for the entire year, those casinos were up 2.6 percent compared to 2013, for a win of more than $124 million.

— Lake Tahoe News staff report