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Buoyed by robust table game play on the Strip and a skyrocketing locals market in Las Vegas casinos won more than $1.4 billion in November, according to a report released by the Gaming Control Board.

Former Miss Nevada Katie Rees has been hired by Jeff Beacher to host the return of Beacher's Madhouse at The Joint in the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino.

Red Rock Casino, Resort and Spa, the first billion-dollar resort to be built off the Las Vegas Strip, has expanded by adding more than 400 new guestrooms and suites, doubling its number of rooms since opening in April 2006.

Google and Las Vegas were America's top two brand names in 2006 and should repeat in 2007, according to a national survey.

While just two members of the Nevada Gaming Control Board conducted the panel's monthly meeting Wednesday, the controversy as to which one of two appointees rightfully held the third seat was moving toward a resolution.

Golden Gaming took its initial steps to increase its presence in the Las Vegas casino market, winning preliminary approval from Nevada gaming regulators to operate the Hard Rock Hotel's casino once the property is sold to the Morgans Hotel Group.

DEQ Systems Corp. reports that Harrah's Operating Company, Inc. has installed its first EZ Baccarat table game at the Paris Las Vegas Hotel & Casino.

A high-profile former gaming executive will attempt to help the Valley Health System and the Service Employees International Union resolve a nine-month labor dispute.

It took Dale Logue nearly two hours to catch a cab from McCarran International Airport on Sunday, one day before the opening of the International Consumer Electronics Show.

After unprecedented success in 2006, Harrah's has added nine events to the 2007 World Series of Poker schedule. The WSOP will award 55 bracelets, including 13 "World Championships" in a wide variety of games.

Strip casinos dished out about $1.3 billion worth of comps - free meals, drinks and rooms - during the fiscal year that ended June 30.

The Nevada Resort Association has launched a statewide radio and television ad campaign commemorating the 75th anniversary of the legalization of gambling in Nevada.

GSN's High Stakes Poker kicks off its third season on Monday, January 15 as the 2006 World Series of Poker champion Jamie Gold and others face the best cash game players.

Governor Jim Gibbons made his own appointments to the two Nevada Gaming Control Board seats to which his predecessor already had appointed people, leaving unclear which pick is legal.

MCarran International Airport maintained its fifth position on the Federal Aviation Administration's list of busiest flight destinations, the agency said Thursday.

Big Nevada casinos rake in $24.1 billion in revenue in fiscal '06, according to a recent report.

After a lengthy delay, the detailed 2007 World Series of Poker schedule will be released later this month, according to WSOP officials.

Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons is exploring the possibility of undoing a high-profile appointment made in the last days of his predecessor's administration, sources said Wednesday.

If the lines at McCarran International Airport seemed longer than usual in November, it's because they were.

The pain of a New Year's Day hangover didn't decrease the first day of 2007. But the cost of sleeping one off in a Las Vegas hotel room did.