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A 50 percent interest in Las Vegas' oldest hotel-casino was sold Thursday to an investment partnership controlled by two brothers whose family made their fortune manufacturing nuts and bolts in the Midwest.

After screening “21” at its premiere, Casino City finds that despite a plot and conclusion that differ from the book it is based on, the film will appeal to a variety of movie-goers, regardless of whether or not they have gambling in their blood.

Cosmopolitan Chief Operating Officer Scott Butera, a former investment banker specializing in reorganizing financially troubled companies, has left the troubled Strip project to take over as president of Tropicana Entertainment.

The Las Vegas County Commission approved Elad IDB Las Vegas LLC's Site Development Plan and Special Use Permit today giving the company all necessary entitlements to begin moving forward with their plans on expanding The Plaza brand to the Las Vegas Strip.

Foreclosure filing meant to push Strip project’s sale.

Luxor is picking up two nongaming attractions from the Tropicana.

Electrician who blew the whistle on illegal remodeling at the Rio hotel encouraged Clark County commissioners to push for thorough investigation of management at Harrah's Entertainment.

Without comment, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied The Venetian's appeal of last year's ruling by a federal circuit court that the casino violated U.S. labor law in March 1999.

Two multibillion-dollar Strip developments less than two miles apart could become victims of the tightening credit markets and rising construction costs.

Christine Binkley’s just-published book, “Winner Takes All: Steve Wynn, Kirk Kerkorian, Gary Loveman and the Race to Own Las Vegas,” is yet another sign that the gaming business has arrived.

Perini Corporation reports that Deutsche Bank has begun the foreclosure process on the Cosmopolitan Resort and Casino as a parallel track to its negotiations with Global Hyatt Corporation and New York-based Marathon Asset Management.

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.