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On the day the World Market Center has named a furniture industry veteran with a strong connection to the Las Vegas community as its chief executive officer.

New flight service from Asia to Las Vegas is giving tourism officials fresh opportunities to show off the city's recreational assets.

When Station Casinos made plans to include a water feature at its newly opened Red Rock Casino, Resort and Spa, Clark County conservation rules required that they offset the feature's water use elsewhere.

The ESPN broadcast of the 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event wrapped up last night, and the network once again outclassed all the other televised poker programs.

News Brief: The fire department reported a 3-alarm fire at The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino.

This week: Online gambling sites shrug off arrests and the latest on Station Casinos new opportunity to install slots at a Laundromat.

Harrah's Entertainment's mammoth redevelopment of the Center Strip area was set to be announced by the end of this month, but all of the details are yet to be finalized.

Harrah's Entertainment, Inc., the League of Women Voters of Las Vegas Valley and the National Association of Women Business Owners have joined forces to sponsor "YOU Decide! 2006," a Nevada gubernatorial debate and candidates' fair at Bally's Las Vegas.

Twenty-five years ago, very few gaming companies had in-house counsel, partly because of their size.

Wynn Las Vegas' president said Friday that the dealers who filed a lawsuit seeking to end the casino's 3-week-old tip pooling program are welcome at their jobs.

Casino City columnist Ryan McLane recently rediscovered the joy of poker by watching his grilfriend play in her first live No-Limit Hold'em poker tournament in Las Vegas.

While a tip matter involving Nevada casino workers may have been resolved in Washington, D.C., the controversy over Wynn Las Vegas splitting the tokes earned by its dealers with casino supervisors has landed in Clark County District Court.

Cavalia, the spectacular equestrian Odyssey, will be presented under its majestic White Big Top that will be located at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, starting November 16, 2006.

Harrah's claims it owns the trademark on the name 'World Series of Poker,' and that it has applied for a patent on the name 'WSOP' as well, so Federico Schiavio's Web site should be passed over to Harrah's.

The Ultimate Game at Wynn Las Vegas will be televised nationally on FOX Sports in 2007.

This week: reflections on the internet gambling debate in congress, sportsbetting and a local credit union, and Columbia Sussex Chief Executive William Yung's unusual plans for the prized Tropicana site.

Tony Green, a 34-year old salesman from Anchorage, Alaska, earned a seat in the Main Event of the 2007 World Series of Poker (WSOP) by winning the first of seven online poker tournaments in the Milwaukee's Best Light Texas Hold'em Challenge on Sunday night.

More than two years ago, Bill Kearney began pushing a bill in the Pennsylvania General Assembly to require soon-to-open casinos to issue monthly statements to gamblers showing their casino winnings and losses.

Ticonderoga Ventures, Inc. reports that the Casino Affiliate Convention was an industry success.

Though the luxury-tower boom might seem a product of the past two years, a pioneering Florida developer was laying the foundation nearly a decade ago for Las Vegas' growing high-rise market.