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News Brief: Steve Wynn’s ambitious plans for the proposed $1.4 billion Encore hotel on the Las Vegas Strip have grown by more than 1,000 hotel rooms.

Though it may seem out of sorts in a city where multibillion-dollar towers regularly rise out of vacant desert lots, the little things still matter most when winning over patrons at Southern Nevada resorts.

Wynn Las Vegas' top human resources leader told a group of business leaders they should consider hiring nontraditional workers such as ex-prisoners and former welfare recipients.

Future casinos will eventually be marketed as resorts with plenty of nongaming amenities such as gourmet restaurants and spas, a group of designers and casino bosses predicted at a Las Vegas conference Thursday.

FullTiltPoker.net and FSN join forces to present a live telecase of the FullTiltPoker.net Championship at Wynn Las Vegas.

Rob Powers, vice president of community relations for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, resigned from the agency over the weekend, a convention authority spokeswoman said today.

A couple of weeks ago, Connecticut businessman Michael Vlock sat at a poker table at Wynn Las Vegas with actor Matt Damon, sports legends Pete Sampras and Wayne Gretzky and investment maven Warren Buffet.

While a Nevada tourism delegation in China didn't get everything that it wanted from a meeting with Asian airline executives, it did get a consolation prize from the Chinese government.

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

Two advantage gamblers whose rights were violated in an incident five years ago at Caesars Palace on Friday won punitive damages from a detective agency that supplies information to casinos.

McCarran International Airport reported 3.9 million passengers in May, a 9 percent increase from the same month last year.

The owners of the Lady Luck hotel in downtown Las Vegas were awarded a 180-day exclusive negotiating agreement on to develop a plan for 5.5 acres of city-owned land.

With a professional poker player as the instructor and a curriculum structured much like a college classroom, the Leonard Benson Co.'s Poker Boot Camp has hosted more than 200 students since mid-February.

Rob Powers, vice president of community relations for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority, was arrested June 9 on charges of felony drunken driving and has been suspended from his job pending an investigation.

The Stratosphere Casino Hotel and Tower will present its annual citywide fireworks display and "Independence Pool Party" on Sunday, July 3.

Starting this week, consumers nationwide will get a taste of Las Vegas through a series of new television spots that will do something that tourism bureaus nationwide have so far avoided.

Casino Marketing: The 2005 Conference returns for its second big year July 17-19 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

The fair was held to recruit workers for housekeeping positions at the new hotel tower at Caesars Palace set to open in July.

The Las Vegas-based commercial passenger carrier has begun flights linking Orlando's Sanford Airport with four cities already on the airline's route map.