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Mary Cleere Haran, considered one of the best cabaret singers of her generation, is performing live in the Peppermill’s Grand Tahoe Ballroom on Saturday, March 15 at 8 p.m.

“Nat King Cole: His Life, His Songs,” will be showing at the Peppermill on Saturday, April 19 at 8 p.m. in the Grand Tahoe Ballroom.

News Brief: Plans to ask Nevada voters to raise taxes on casinos have alarmed the Las Vegas gambling industry, which is scrambling to block initiatives.

Bette Midler "The Showgirl Must Go On," created in partnership with AEG Live exclusively for The Colosseum at Caesars Palace, premiered to a sold-out crowd.

MicroStrategy reports that Silverton Casino Lodge has selected MicroStrategy's Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards for improved insights into its business performance.

Deal card wizards the same hands and see who can play ’em best, suggests Henderson’s Phil Zajac.

Nevada regulators are now taking another look at a law banning cell phones and other electronic devices inside sports books.

With conventions attracting about 6.2 million people to Las Vegas in 2007, there is opportunity to increase the off-Strip niche's share of the pie, said Chuck Schwartz, chairman of Convexx, a convention production company in Las Vegas.

Nevada regulators are now taking another look at cell phone prohibition inside sports books because critics see it as outdated in a technological age.

Nevada casinos are moving toward new technology that will allow managers to change the look, price and take of slot machines from a central computer.

Jeff Simpson on why now is the time for all the Chicken Littles to come out of the coop and start warning Las Vegans about the falling sky.

A Strip executive now doubts even half as many of the boasted 40,000 new hotel rooms will be built, with the result that tens of thousands of expected new jobs won’t be created.

MGM Mirage reports that the Monte Carlo Hotel reopened as scheduled today and welcomed guests into the resort's casino, hotel tower, restaurants, showroom and meeting facilities.

Leaders of CIM Group, the development company that last year bought into the shuttered Lady Luck, are in talks with the city of Las Vegas to put money toward a proposed mob museum on Stewart Avenue at Third Street.

District Judge Bill Maddox threw out two petitions Friday that would have let Nevada voters decide whether to triple the state's 6.75 percent gaming tax.

Has recession arrived? Answers in Nevada vary and consensus so far is rare.

At a Reuters sponsored travel conference in Los Angeles Monday, MGM Mirage Chief Financial Officer Dan D’Arrigo said he expected only half of the more than 40,000 planned hotel room to be built over the next few years.

Wynn Las Vegas has lost a billion dollars of its market worth since Tuesday afternoon, when casino boss Steve Wynn, in spite of fairly upbeat earnings at his company, warned investors that the Strip won’t be immune from an economic slowdown.

The CityCenter Sales Pavilion is boasting a suite of architectural models the size of dump trucks.

The economic slowdown that has affected other job sectors throughout the past year has found its way to the gaming industry.