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Trump International Hotel & Tower Las Vegas, the city's newest landmark, today announced the opening of its signature fine-dining restaurant, DJT.

CityCenter has revealed that its stunning resort casino, scheduled to open in late 2009, will be named Aria.

While there may be one heck of a grand opening for the $9.2 billion CityCenter on the Strip, actual opening dates for the various buildings will differ.

Wynn Las Vegas filed a lawsuit in District Court on Wednesday to force former National Basketball Association star Charles Barkley to pay back $400,000 in gambling markers the casino alleges it extended him last year.

While Las Vegas miniaturizes landmarks — the Eiffel Tower, the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty — the CityCenter skyline towering above the 76-acre site seems larger than life.

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority has lowered their revenue expectations for Southern Nevada resorts, predicting room taxes for the year will be $8 million less than forecast.

The Las Vegas-based HIV/AIDS charity Golden Rainbow will present its 22nd annual "Ribbon of Life" fundraising production show on June 14 and 15 in Le Theatre des Arts at Paris Las Vegas.

Three off-Strip properties are addressing the economic pinch by increasing promotional spending, although they are taking separate approaches to cost-cutting efforts.

The cost to build MGM Mirage's massive CityCenter development has cracked the $9 billion mark.

CityCenter today commemorated the 'topping out' of its 57-story Vdara Condo Hotel, the first of six distinctive high-rise towers that will be topped within the coming months.

MGM Mirage officials will top out CityCenter's 57-story Vdara Condo Hotel today.

Operators of Star Trek: The Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton might soon be telling Sin City, "Qapla'."

Donny and Marie Osmond will host an open casting call, which kicks off today, in search of talented dancers to be part of their all-new production at Flamingo Las Vegas, opening Sept. 9.

Legendary former Las Vegas bookmaker, Scott Schettler has a theory on why the current economic turbulence has affected Las Vegas in a way previous recessions did not.

Bauman Rare Books, a familiar landmark on Madison Avenue in New York for lovers of antiquarian books and autographs, announces its opening at The Shoppes at The Palazzo in Las Vegas.

Guggenheim's closure makes some wonder whether high culture has a future on the Strip.

The number of people who visited Las Vegas in March fell 1 percent to about 3.4 million, prompting resort operators to lower hotel rates to keep rooms full.

Profits for Landry's Restaurants, parent company of the Golden Nugget casinos in Las Vegas and Laughlin, fell 93 percent in the first quarter .

Statewide gaming revenues fell for the third straight month in 2008 with casinos winning 1.52 percent less from gamblers during March than they did a year ago.

News Brief: Gov. Jim Gibbons could support a deal that would result in higher room taxes rather than increased casino taxes, but only if Nevadans backed the idea in an advisory ballot question, a spokesman said Friday.