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Table game players and sports bettors exited Nevada casinos with a little more money in their pockets as the state's monthly gaming win fell for only the second time in two years, according to figures released Thursday by the Gaming Control Board.

Joel Robuchon at MGM Grand was honored with a Mobil Five-Star Award by Mobil Travel Guide.

Santé, the Magazine for Restaurant Professionals has named chef Rick Moonen of restaurant rm at Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino was awarded the Grand Award of Culinary Professional of the Year.

Operators of Fremont Street's renown Golden Nugget hotel casino are betting $100 million that a new shark aquarium, pool and restaurants will lure enough small fish to sustain that area's tourist revival.

This week: news on the Inspirada hotel and casino, Internet poker parlors, and how Strip casinos are joining the condo party.

Like mediocre math students wrestling with high-level calculus, the gamblers gathered at the Silverton are shifting in their seats.

The name Eric Lynch didn’t ring many bells in the poker community this summer when the Kansas resident made his first appearance at the World Series of Poker.

News Brief: Palms Casino Resort proprietor George Maloof is set to unveil what he calls a 'one-of-a-kind' concert venue this month, although it won't officially open until February.

Kelley Technologies has successful delivered high-end technology projects totaling more than $4 million at some of the most exciting properties in Las Vegas.

News Brief: Investigators continued the search for bodies on Sunday at the downtown hotel that was the site of the city’s deadliest fire.

News Brief: The Paris Las Vegas sports book on the Strip was closed Saturday and its ticket writers suspended pending an investigation that employees were underreporting their income from tips, officials said.

Jeff Simpson hopes anyone who doubted the Brothers Fertitta when they ponied up almost a billion dollars to build their Red Rock Resort has come to his senses.

A selection of news and views from inside the industry this week.

Columbia Entertainment said today that it has obtained regulatory approvals from gaming authorities in Nevada and New Jersey that will help to clear the way for the company's planned acquisition of Aztar Corporation.

It will be at least another year before the shuttered Lady Luck in downtown is replaced, Nevada gaming regulators were told Wednesday.

There's no mistaking Bill Boyd's appreciation of the property that took him into the casino industry's big leagues.

MGM Mirage will sell its Buffalo Bill's, Primm Valley and Whiskey Pete's hotel-casinos to Herbst Gaming, Inc. for $400 million.

With a $1 million gift from MGM Mirage, the university will establish the MGM Mirage Academic Excellence Scholarship Endowment.

Michael Gaughan is finally back doing what he likes, running a casino.

Luxor Resort & Casino will be the home for the third season of A&E Network's "Criss Angel Mindfreak."