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News Brief: Workers cleared out a warehouse last week in Sparks, where John Ascuaga’s Nugget had stored many relics of its 53-year history.

It may be the most Vegas show — and most un-Vegas — show in town.

Jeff Simpson on the shakedown for tips at Las Vegas nightclubs.

The Morse Arberry Jr. Telecommunications Building at the College of Southern Nevada helps students advance their slot machine knowledge through lessons on theory, electronics, computer technology and mathematics.

The best way to grasp the magnitude of the biggest convention in Las Vegas,the ConExpo-Con/Agg show, is to look down at it from the sky.

Pilarski shows no shame in proclaiming his favorite show to see in Las Vegas while he explains to another reader what that sequence of events are from the time you pull the handle of a winning progressive jackpot slot machine until you get that check in your hand.

Companies like MG, which offer environmentally friendly trade show exhibits, is part of the convention and trade show industry's nascent green trend.

Las Vegas boosters will spend as much as $12 million to keep tourists and conventioneers coming despite high gasoline prices, sagging consumer confidence and a global credit crisis.

Binion's Gambling Hall & Hotel is back under local ownership after the close of a deal that netted more than $28 million for the Fremont Street property's former owners.

MGM Mirage is unveiling initial plans for CityCenter's $40 million Fine Art Program.

A selection of news and views from inside the industry this week.

Casino companies should have known about the huge amounts of cash washing through nightclubs on their properties long before the IRS began investigations of two of Las Vegas’ most popular clubs, say former gaming executives and others familiar with the industry.

MTR Gaming Group, Inc.has completed the sale of the stock of Speakeasy Gaming of Fremont, Inc., which owns and operates Binion’s Gambling Hall & Hotel to TLC Casino Enterprises, Inc. for cash.

The teachers union’s petition for a ballot initiative to raise the tax on big casinos would remove some of the Legislature’s powers in deciding school funding.

Forbes magazine's list of the world's billionaires shows 2007 wasn't a vintage year for Southern Nevada's richest residents and visitors.

Early evidence of Las Vegas visitation levels in 2008 shows fewer people coming to Las Vegas, at least by air.

Crown Ltd. is the latest in a handful of gaming companies that have purchased or leased office space along the Las Vegas Beltway in the southwestern Las Vegas Valley, creating a core development totaling about 1 million square feet.

Perfect Escapes report that Ms. Melissa Dickinson of San Clemente, California, is the grand prize winner of the Perfect Escapes "Weekend at the Wynn Las Vegas" Sweepstakes

State Labor Commissioner Michael Tanchek's second look at the controversial Wynn Las Vegas tip-pooling policy has been postponed.

Hooters Hotel will be rebranded into a yet-to-be named boutique hotel following a $130 million redevelopment of the property that could begin later this year, the investment group purchasing the hotel said Monday.