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Skeptics paint a dismal picture of how well art exhibits benefit Las Vegas' tourism industry, but visitors still visit them and Strip megaresorts continue to stage events like the new Chatsworth exhibit that opened Sept. 13 at the Bellagio Fine Arts Gallery.

Mandalay Resort Group released a statement Friday denying that Mike Ensign or Bill Richardson had any exit strategy for leaving the company.

News Brief: Two more people have filed a federal lawsuit after being caught up in a deadly biker brawl during the Laughlin River Run motorcycle rally in 2002.

News Brief: A white tiger grabbed Las Vegas magician Roy Horn by the throat and threw him round like a bloody ragdoll in front of 1500 people.

Barney Vinson: "It started with a cocktail party at the Las Vegas Hilton, up on top of the hotel in the Conrad Villa Sky Suite."

The owner of a historic motel across from Mandalay Bay has shut down the property and has told tenants that he intends to tear it down.

Mike Ensign and Bill Richardson have sold off the last of their stock holdings in Mandalay Resort Group, leading analysts to speculate Thursday that the longtime casino executives are preparing to leave the company they helped form.

Nevada's economy showed continued signs of recovery in July as businesses posted their strongest sales increases since before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, state officials said Wednesday.

Park Place Entertainment Corp. is expected to argue Friday that a high roller's fraud lawsuit should be heard by the state Supreme Court and referred to the state Gaming Control Board.

Hoping to capitalize on the media frenzy surrounding actor Arnold Schwarzenegger's campaign to be elected governor of California, the Culinary Local 226 plans to demonstrate today at Schwarzenegger's Santa Monica, Calif., production offices on behalf of Aladdin workers.

When the Westin Casuarina hotel-casino opens near the Las Vegas Strip this month, it will not be a union property.

The chief executive of Trizec Properties Inc. reiterated Tuesday that the company has yet to close a sale on Desert Passage, the Arabian-themed mall attached to the Aladdin hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip.

A Clark County judge has dismissed Nevada Gaming Control Board regulators from a high-roller's fraud suit against Park Place Entertainment Corp. and stayed state court action against other defendants pending the outcome of a similar federal case.

What will it take to get more Asians to visit the United States? A group of global travel professionals is meeting in Las Vegas this week seeking the answer to that question.

News Brief: Sex and commerce have always been close in Vegas and even the world-famous acrobats of circus troupe Cirque du Soleil is now getting into the act.

Clark County officials say they didn't generate a report explaining how Internet companies that buy and resell large quantities of hotel rooms may in some instances be paying a lower percentage tax rate than they should.

This month's expected opening of the Westin Casuarina hotel-casino in Las Vegas has been put off until next month because of construction delays.

News Brief: The Culinary union is targeting Las Vegas City Councilwoman Lynette Boggs McDonald and her position on Station Casinos' board of directors in a flier that was mailed to thousands of voters in her northwest ward.

The pirates have been vanquished from the new Treasure Island at Spring Mountain Road and the Strip, and the booty they left behind is ready for claiming.

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