Las Vegas News - Page 439

While all sports books share the same basic attributes, each has a different look, a different feel and a unique charm. With football season finally upon us, we decided to go out and visit virtually every sports book in Las Vegas and come up with a list of our Top 10.

Desperate times call for desperate measures. And when it comes to Las Vegas casino owners, desperation is spelled D-I-S-C-O-U-N-T.

Parkas, boots and mittens are about to become mainstays in Las Vegas nightlife fashion, as a lounge made entirely of ice opens at Mandalay Place, located adjacent to Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in Las Vegas in September.

The Culinary and bartenders unions have won another round in their long legal battle with the former owners of the Sahara and Hacienda hotel-casinos in Las Vegas.

The Palazzo hotel-casino announced it was converting the 40/40 club into a large-scale race and sports book that will include a specialty restaurant.

Southwest Airlines will eliminate nearly 200 flights -- including some from Las Vegas -- early next year as it struggles with high fuel costs and a weakening economy.

A committee from the official booster board for Las Vegas would freeze the pay rate for its chief executive under a recommendation approved Tuesday.

Trevi Architectural, provider of fountains, sculptures, columns and moldings to many resorts, is closing Friday.

The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino has created a decadent atmosphere designed with the player's comfort in mind to attract the world's top poker players to Las Vegas' first Poker Lounge.

If there is a discussion in Las Vegas about how to reduce traffic congestion with road upgrades and mass transit systems there's a better-than-average chance Tom Skancke is involved.

The “Ambassador of Poker” tells Casino City that he expects Excalibur's decision to install PokerPro tables in its poker room to be a recurring trend in Las Vegas.

A few small casinos across the Las Vegas Valley say they have not experienced the downturn that has affected larger properties such as those of Station Casinos and Boyd Gaming Corp., which owns the Coast chain.

Traffic at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas fell 8.6 percent in July to about 3.9 million arrivals and departures.

The lobbying arm of the nation's $740 billion travel industry will use Las Vegas and Orlando, Fla., to gain a stronger foothold in the presidential race.

Binion's newest owner is bringing back a renowned tradition at the downtown Las Vegas casino, and it isn't swift and thorough beatings for people dumb enough to get caught cheating at cards.

Though the Palms is about 283 miles from the Playboy Mansion, Las Vegas’ N9NE Group brought Hugh Hefner’s infamous Midsummer Night’s Dream party to the Palms on Saturday night.

Two more union workers have been fired from CityCenter after being identified in photographs as drinking alcohol and entering the construction site.

Some 10 projects totaling $360 million to be deferred or cut in next five years.

Poker players at Excalibur heading into the casino's poker room will find a fully automated poker room.

The clock is ticking towards summer's end, but the heat keeps rising with the line up of gay events in Las Vegas.