State regulators approved Las Vegas-based Terrible’s Gaming Thursday as the new operator for the Primm resort community, saving the town on the border of Nevada and California along Interstate 15 from going dark on July 4.
At a special hearing in Las Vegas, Gaming Control Board members took less than 45 minutes to sign off on the transfer of the operations, which are being abandoned by Affinity Gaming. The Nevada Gaming Commission approved the licensing following a separate hearing Thursday afternoon.
“We just felt it was our obligation to call the Primm family and see if there’s anything we could do to help keep those employees employed,” Terrible’s President Tim Herbst told the control board…