Stateline casinos bring in big bucks in February

Nevada casinos collectively topped the billion-dollar mark for the second consecutive month. Back-to-back billion-dollar wins had not been recorded since March-April 2008.

On the South Shore the gaming win for February was up 32 percent to $19.86 million from 2017.

Statewide the numbers were $1.018 billion, a 7.7 percent increase from February 2017.

North Lake Tahoe was one of the six markets to post a decline. The numbers were off by just more than 6 percent.

— Lake Tahoe News staff report