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The Palms Casino Resort expects to open a tattoo parlor, Hard & Huntington Tattoo Co., in February.

wo labor unions will rally to publicize their respective issues today at the Aladdin hotel-casino.

The massive electric blackout that hit the Northeast on Thursday had a noticeable but limited impact on Las Vegas hotel and airport operations, casino and airport officials reported Friday.

The Fitzgeralds hotel-casino in downtown Las Vegas narrowed its operating loss to $300,000 in Q2 compared to a loss of $700,000 in the same quarter a year ago.

According to the Gaming Control Board's fiscal year-end numbers for 2003, casinos won less from blackjack, minibaccarat and bingo players than in 2002.

The second half of 2003 is shaping up to be a blockbuster for the Las Vegas gaming and tourism industries, several Wall Street analysts said Thursday.

A publicly traded Australian company has established a `handshake agreement’ with a Nye County brothel owner to build a casino and strip club at a site north of Pahrump in Southern Nevada.

The union seeking to represent employees of the Aladdin hotel-casino has created an Internet site about its dispute with the bankrupt Strip property.

The Gaming Control Board is developing new procedures for tracking anti-money laundering reports, board Chairman Dennis Neilander said Wednesday.

The recently passed state live entertainment tax has yet to prompt a single event planner to move to another locale, Las Vegas Events President Pat Christenson said Tuesday.

Four power customers including three casinos have responded to concerns outlined in a report issued last week by Nevada Public Utilities Commission staff.

Barney Vinson: "It's easy to get a job in Las Vegas today."

The bankrupt Castaways hotel-casino received court approval Thursday for an additional $200,000 from a primary lender.

The growth of cashless wagering systems has prompted the Nevada Gaming Control Board to make some organizational changes to provide closer supervision.

On New Year's Eve 1997, the Luxor resort in Las Vegas wowed the Strip with a $1 million exterior lighting system designed to add glitter to a 30-story black pyramid that otherwise faded away into the darkness.

The Nevada Gaming Control Board recommended approval Wednesday for a restructured group to run and revive gambling at the Lady Luck Casino in downtown Las Vegas.

William Young, the sole owner of Columbia Properties Laughlin, is on his way to taking over a second hotel-casino in Southern Nevada.

The Culinary Workers Union Local 226 is launching a new Web site for visitors and meeting and convention coordinators planning a visit to Las Vegas about the labor dispute at the Aladdin Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.

The Castaways hotel-casino expects to convert its self-insured health insurance plan for employees to a fully insured plan in an effort to cut costs, a property executive told lenders during a U.S. Bankruptcy Court hearing last month.

The owner of the Desert Passage mall at the Aladdin said it is talking with several interested parties about buying the property or entering into a partnership to run the mall, though the company did not name any suitors.