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News Brief: Fox has picked up ‘The Casino,’ a show from producer Mark Burnett that will revolve around the relaunch of Las Vegas' landmark Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino on the Fremont St. strip.

Two 1960s-era landmarks on the Las Vegas Strip will soon face the wrecking ball to make way for a nongaming luxury hotel.

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority will spend $1.57 million for five parcels totaling 1.15 acres adjacent to the Las Vegas Convention Center South Hall, the organization's board of directors agreed Tuesday.

If you went on a 'hot streak' while playing your favorite slot machine, how would you feel if the machine suddenly shut down and gave you an on-screen message warning of the dangers of excessive gambling?

According to a Harvard University researcher, the extent of gambling that occurs on college campuses has been greatly exaggerated.

The Nevada Supreme Court has reinstated a lawsuit by a cocktail waitress at Caesars Palace alleging the resort was negligent in not providing security in the employee parking garage, where she was abducted twice by her estranged husband.

Park Place Entertainment Corp.'s Caesars Entertainment-branded MasterCard debuted Monday with many credit officials and gaming foes attacking the bank-casino company partnerships

Almost five years after Nevada gaming regulators enacted rules tackling problem gambling, one of the state's leading problem gambling experts is calling on the Nevada Gaming Commission and the Nevada Gaming Control Board to revisit the subject.

The owner of the land, Archon Corp., said Friday it plans to build a hotel-casino anchored by a 600-foot ferris wheel at the Wet 'n Wild waterpark just south of the Sahara hotel-casino.

News Brief: After more than two years in seclusion and doubts about whether it would survive in captivity, a great hammerhead shark was released this week into a massive aquarium at the Mandalay Bay hotel-casino.

Archon plans to construct and operate a full facility hotel, casino and entertainment complex on its 27-acre parcel of land located at 2601 Las Vegas Boulevard South, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

As competitors from near to parts yonder `cowboy up’ in Southern Nevada over the next few days, local businesses will try to lasso their share of the cash windfall that typically accompanies the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo's annual run in Las Vegas.

Coast Casinos on Thursday announced preliminary plans to add a third $100 million tower at The Orleans on West Tropicana.

News Brief: Forty-two Hells Angels members have been indicted on federal racketeering and firearms charges stemming from a deadly 2002 brawl between the motorcycle gang and rival bikers at a Laughlin casino.

More than three hours of sometimes acrimonious testimony and cross talk Wednesday failed to produce a decision from the Clark County Commission on a proposed 300-foot tower and 1,500-room resort in Summerlin, Nevada.

The Las Vegas Culinary Union has struck its latest labor contract with the MGM Grand resort.

News Brief: Regulations that will enable Nevada to start gathering nearly $500 million in new payroll and live entertainment taxes were endorsed Wednesday by Nevada's Legislative Commission.

Count tennis star Andre Agassi and former International Game Technology Chairman Chuck Mathewson as prospective owners of downtown Las Vegas’ Golden Nugget.

Boyd Gaming launches its Players Gold Card as the new `gold standard’ for slot and pit play at its three downtown Las Vegas gaming properties.

A former Mirage casino employee who could have faced several years in jail for failing to file thousands of money-tracking reports with federal authorities was sentenced to three years of probation today.