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The company says business has improved since the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, but it doesn’t expect the big international players to return until next year.

Harrah's Entertainment is in a deal with the popular men's magazine Maxim aimed at drawing the young hip crowd to its off-Strip Rio hotel-casino.

Foundation for an Independent Tomorrow, a privately funded nonprofit organization, is helping laid-off casino and hotel workers retrain for new jobs.

Stratosphere executives pushing for approval of a giant thrill ride could sideline a downtown monorail plan that has been the focus of efforts by city and state officials for years.

Airline traffic to Las Vegas from Japan and Mexico were the hardest hit by the downturn following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, McCarran International Airport statistics show.

Though employees' hours have been rising at the Venetian as business recovers, they are unlikely to ever return to the levels seen before Sept. 11, executives with the hotel-casino's parent company said Friday.

London Clubs International is close to a deal with the Aladdin's bankers releasing it from its obligations to the bankrupt Las Vegas Strip hotel-casino.

Not even Comdex, historically Las Vegas' largest convention, appears to have the power to revive slumping midweek business trends for the city's casino hotels.

News Brief: Nevada State Sen. Joe Neal wants a legislative advisory panel to review taxes paid by Nevada's casino industry, saying the clubs will use the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks as an excuse to fight any tax rate hikes.

As thousands of laid-off casino workers stare at a tight and competitive job market, some are using their free time to take classes at the culinary union's training academy.

The company that provided the bankrupt Regent with insurance on the project has agreed to pay $22 million.

News Brief: Casino workers are struggling with more work as a result of recent workplace cutbacks.

A cultural need for security is the main reason that Japanese tourists are staying away from Las Vegas, experts say, and the primary reason Japan Airlines is considering suspending nonstop service between Tokyo and Las Vegas for three months.

Front-line employees from valet attendants and front-desk personnel to dealers and cocktail waitresses are being asked to be on the lookout for anything suspicious at their properties.

The FBI secretly obtained permission in December 1999 to wiretap members of a criminal organization to see whether any of them participated in the slaying of casino figure, Ted Binion, 14 months earlier.

Park Place Entertainment closed the 23-year-old Flamingo hotel-casino in Reno on Tuesday, leaving 1,048 people without work during one of the slowest times of year in the Northern Nevada job market.

Japan Airlines is moving to suspend its three-year-old nonstop air service between Tokyo and Las Vegas -- a move that will inflict even more pain on the Las Vegas tourism and gambling industries.

One of the Desert Inn's towers was brought down by booming explosions this morning, closing a chapter in the life of the historic property that is being transformed into Steve Wynn's new Le Reve megaresort.

There is little concern that a money laundering bill passed by the House will hurt casinos, gaming industry officials say.

Steve Wynn said Friday he's in the final stages of designing Le Reve, his newest megaresort on the Las Vegas Strip and that he won't seek out financing until he's finished.