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One of Las Vegas' most popular trade shows is getting a new home.

The city of Henderson plans to again bring up its request for $8 million in grant payments from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority to help pay for a proposed public plaza adjacent to its City Hall.

Venetian owner Sheldon Adelson's long-planned second megaresort on the Las Vegas Strip will have 53 stories and will top Steve Wynn's Wynn Las Vegas hotel-casino across the street by 105 feet, according to an architectural draft of the project submitted to Clark County planners.

Just a few weeks shy of its second anniversary, the troubled Neonopolis shopping and entertainment center still looks much as did when it opened on May 3, 2002: a largely desolate space that's plagued by too few businesses drawing far too few customers.

Harrah's Entertainment will reopen Binion's Horseshoe Casino and Hotel on April 1, in time to host the 35th annual World Series of Poker.

Major road construction projects that interfere with the easy flow of traffic frustrate big locals operators like Station Casinos.

Downtown developers and operators are a wrangling lot, but on one thing they agree: The patchwork, crazy-quilt ownership of many downtown Las Vegas land parcels poses a serious impediment to revitalization efforts.

A selection of stories from inside the gaming industry this week.

The Culinary Training Academy, a nonprofit partnership of the Culinary union and 24 resort operators, on Friday announced it will launch a first-of-its-kind ad blitz next week to recruit workers for the gaming industry.

As part of a move by Harrah's Entertainment Inc. to settle all pending claims against Binion's Horseshoe, Harrah's has paid a former dealer who alleged wrongful firing $25,760 in backpay.

The Aladdin reported a $4.1 million profit in February, reversing the $402,122 loss reported in January and the $4.1 million deficit recorded in December.

Orlando-based discount carrier AirTran Airways will continue its expansion in Las Vegas with nonstop round trips to and from the Quad Cities on the Iowa-Illinois border.

Former Horseshoe workers both literally and figuratively moved closer to their old jobs Thursday after they met with officials from Harrah's Entertainment Corp.

Travelscape founders Tim Poster and Tom Breitling, the new owners of the Golden Nugget who built their reputations in the high-tech business, are again banking their fortunes on technology.

Southwest Airlines, the busiest commercial passenger carrier at McCarran International Airport, will add five new daily round-trip flights to Las Vegas beginning in June.

For the hundreds of folks staffing the Plaza, Las Vegas Club, Gold Spike and Western casinos this morning, the sentiment about their hotels' former owner was clear. Jackie Gaughan has not been forgotten.

Barrick Gaming Corp. executives took control of the Plaza, Las Vegas Club, Western and Gold Spike hotel-casinos shortly after midnight this morning.

News Brief: Mikhail Gorbachev, who led the Soviet Union from 1985 until it dissolved in 1991 says he no longer has a low regard for Las Vegas.

News Brief: The gambling-phobic NCAA may wince, but that home of the Final Four is Las Vegas, the neon asylum at the heart of March Madness.

Columnist Jeff German wonders, if after all these years of operating in mediocrity, a new attitude is emerging in downtown Las Vegas.