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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.

Internet gaming whiz Jay Cohen was released Monday from the minimum-security Nellis Federal Prison Camp.

A man was nearly shot in the head while trying to fend off robbers in the parking lot of a Las Vegas casino.

Standard & Poor's says Las Vegas is anticipated to outperform other gaming markets as it outpaces last year's continued recovery from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Harrah's Entertainment crews were scrambling Monday at Binion's Horseshoe to wrap up $1 million in improvements and ready the downtown landmark for its planned April 1 reopening.

American travelers and the businesses that serve them spent more money in 2003 than in any 12-month period since 2000, the last full year before widespread economic troubles and the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, disrupted global travel, a new federal report says.

Boyd Gaming Corporation today named Thomas A. Roberts, CPM as General Manager of its Sam's Town Shreveport facility.

An executive with the NCAA who was a spectator in several Las Vegas sports books during the opening rounds of the NIT and NCAA basketball tournaments last week says his colleagues probably will be surprised to learn how many different ways there are to bet on a basketball game.

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

Gaggles of visitors stroll up and down the Strip, agog over the spectacle, especially features such as the fountains, the tropical landscaping, and the assorted pools and water features.

Las Vegas is hot again, and not just temperature-wise.

Nevada gaming regulators forced a three-year-old West Sahara Avenue bar to turn off its slot machines Thursday afternoon after the club's owner failed to pay his quarterly slot licensing fees on time.

A battle brewing between Strip kingpins Steve Wynn and Sheldon Adelson revolves around parking spaces.

Southern Nevadans concerned about sexually suggestive billboards showed up at Thursday's Nevada Gaming Commission meeting, hoping their anger about the larger-than-life ads inspires regulators to reign in casino billboard excess.

BingoTV is a live bingo game that broadcasts every Wednesday evening on the Dish Network satellite service. So far, the program is a success.