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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.

The 928-room tower now under construction at the Bellagio should help the Strip property cement its position as one of the top draws for premium players in Las Vegas, the megaresort's hotel boss said recently.

Adele Epstein, matriarch of a Las Vegas gaming family and a civic leader who raised funds for local charities in the 1960s and '70s, died Saturday.

News Brief: Celine Dion has canceled her Wednesday and Thursday shows on the Las Vegas Strip to attend her father's funeral in Montreal.

as Vegas' largest operator of pedicabs -- bicycle-powered rickshaws that move tourists up and down the Strip -- is taking his vehicles off the road after his drivers were threatened with arrest for operating illegally.

Vegas conference to discuss cutting-edge addictions research and explore the implications of scientific research for regulation of the international gaming industry.

The small Flamingo Road hotel-casino, between the Westin and the Barbary Coast, has plans for a redevelopment project set for consideration by Clark County planning officials.

The Internal Revenue Service has placed a tax lien on the 52-year-old downtown gambling hall, claiming the Horseshoe has yet to pay $5 million in past due payroll taxes.

Smaller resorts likely will be more dominant in the future of Las Vegas, according to nearly half the respondents in a final American Gaming Association survey released Monday.

News Brief: Huddled inside the Luxor hotel-casino, a trio of newly minted 21-year-olds are big on dreams, but short on know-how.

News Brief: Illusionist Roy Horn of `Siegfried & Roy’ is slowly recovering from a tiger attack that has kept him hospitalized since October, his partner said Monday.

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

In addition to the possible purchase of a major Las Vegas resort, a real estate limited partnership controlled by investor Carl Icahn is making other moves in an apparent attempt to consolidate and grow its gaming investments, experts say.

inion's Horseshoe is behind on its payments to the Internal Revenue Service for employee payroll withholding taxes. The IRS has placed a federal tax lien on hotel-casino, claiming some $5 million in taxes are past due.

Las Vegas-based Allegiant Air is ending its service from Las Vegas to Denver and shifting resources to nearby Colorado Springs and Fort Collins, Colorado.

The two newest developments planned on the Strip, Wynn Las Vegas and The Venetian II, are shaping up as a pair of titans challenging the rest of the industry for uppercrust convention business.