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After 3 1/2 weeks in charge of the Nevada university system's fledgling health sciences center, former Clark County manager Thom Reilly is resigning to take a half-million-dollar job with Harrah's Entertainment.

Bomb-wielding jihadists may be the focal point of many travelers' unease, but terrorism isn't the only threat lurking around the world's airports and hotels.

If there's one common notion that most Americans have about Las Vegas, it's that we have a vibrant economy. To be precise, many think we are the land of milk and honey.

Like a terrier herding small livestock, Barbara Hewitt is consumed with developing and implementing the training programs essential to a company the size of MGM Mirage and for the growth it has planned.

For the gaming industry, the five years since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks started with the deepest downturn in the industry's history. But they ended in a remarkable recovery that redefined what the business is all about.

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

In the next half a decade, a massive building project at McCarran International Airport will grab the attention of millions of visitors on arrival.

The airport is now the nation's fifth busiest, posting a record 44.3 million people last year.

Las Vegas casino companies will mail their customers letters to alert them of the impending road work, while the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is readying an advertising blitz of its own.

A heavy rail line bringing tourists in from Southern California and elsewhere will have to be a part of the solution to growing traffic problems along the Strip resort corridor, experts agree.

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

A gaming stock index rose modestly in August as excitement over next week's opening of Wynn Macau pulled the group out of a sharp three-month slide.

After several months of little to no growth in Southern Nevada's visitor counts, perhaps it's fitting that this year's summer travel season concludes with little to no growth as well.

News Brief: Clark County Sheriff Bill Young is pushing for the gambling industry to install and manage an expanded surveillance camera system on the Las Vegas Strip that could film robberies, fights and other crimes and alert police immediately.

MAXjet Airways said Monday it will launch twice-weekly nonstops between London and McCarran International Airport on Nov. 2.

Major expansion plans are in the works for the Las Vegas Monorail to help relieve traffic congestion along the resort corridor.

About half of drivers said they would stop driving to Vegas if prices hit $3.50 per gallon and about 80 percent would stop if gas reaches $4.33 per gallon.

The 'ambassador' program has captured the attention of problem gambling treatment experts normally skeptical of casino efforts to help compulsive gamblers.

News Brief: Gaming enforcement officials allege that Michael Joseph Balsamo had some help from his family, working with his wife, stepson and mother-in-law to cheat slot machines in Clark County.

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