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Caesars Palace broke ground for its new tower Monday, hoping to entice enough added guests to return casino play to historic standards.

The Culinary Workers Union Local 226 plans a rally tonight to call attention to its dispute with the Aladdin hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip.

News Brief: A Las Vegas developer's plans to construct a $650 million casino in southern Maine has triggered the most expensive referendum campaign in the state's history.

If he didn't exist, it would be hard to imagine D. Taylor, secretary-treasurer of Culinary Local 226.

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

Harrah's Entertainment Chairman Phil Satre called on the rest of the casino industry to follow his company's lead as he formally presented the company's extensive corporate archive to the Gaming Studies Research Center at UNLV.

News Brief: In celebration of its tenth anniversary, the Treasure Island hotel-casino set sail with the maiden voyage of its new pirate battle production.

News Brief: The Nevada Supreme Court has declined to review its decision last July granting a new trial for Sandy Murphy and her lover, Richard Tabish, on charges of robbing and killing former Las Vegas casino executive Ted Binion.

ondon-based Virgin Atlantic Airlines, which last month added a third nonstop round trip between London's Gatwick International Airport and Las Vegas, will add a fourth next spring, the company said today.

MTR Gaming was told by members of the state Gaming Commission Wednesday that it better improve its business practices but the commission voted 3-2 to award it an unlimited license for operation of the Ramada Inn and Speedway Casino in North Las Vegas.

The Venetian on Thursday withdrew from the state Public Utilities Commission its application to leave the Nevada Power Co. electric system and buy its own power.

Fewer foreign travelers are expected to visit the United States for the third consecutive year, but federal agencies and local tourism officials remain confident international visitor figures will rebound beginning in 2004.

Hotel room rates likely will climb in 2004, a national travel trade association study predicts, signaling a recovery in business travel and giving the gaming industry a much-needed shot in the arm.

MGM Grand executives and union workers at the Strip's biggest hotel met Tuesday in the first round of contract negotiations.

Wall Street analysts Tuesday predicted Nevada's biggest casino operator will choose to build its next billion-dollar-plus megaresort on the Strip and not in Atlantic City.

Station Casinos' proposal to build a new hotel with one 300-foot tower of 1,000 rooms and two 200-foot-tall towers of 250 rooms has been met with mixed reactions from residents.

Harrah’s has donated thousands of artifacts documenting the history of Harrah’s to the special collections department at the University of Nevada.

Nearly 3 million people used McCarran International Airport in September, a 5 percent increase over the 2.8 million people who flew in and out of the Las Vegas airport in the same month a year ago.

No matter what happens to wholesale prices, the Golden Gate hotel-casino in downtown Las Vegas will continue to sell its trademark shrimp cocktail for 99 cents, owner Mark Brandenburg said.

Culinary Local 226 and the Sierra Club have joined forces to fund a flier opposing Station Casinos' plans for a 300-foot tower at its proposed Red Rock Station casino site in Summerlin.