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News Brief: A Carson City casino's announcement of a $60 million expansion that could include a hotel with up to 200 rooms has city and tourism officials ecstatic.

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

News Brief: The Reno City Council approved planning changes late Wednesday that will allow Station Casinos to build a $500 million hotel-casino at the junction of Mount Rose Highway and Virginia Street.

Two months after sharing a stage at the Global Gaming Expo, Harrah's Entertainment Chairman Gary Loveman and MGM Mirage Chairman Terry Lanni took part in another public discussion Wednesday.

Ardent Zorro fan, David Ventura, became the first player to win the $50,000 top award on Aristocrat's new Zorro-themed local-area progressive games.

When travel club AAA named its Five-Diamond restaurants and hotels, a new gem joined the local crown jewels already on the list.

Hotel developer Steve Wynn appeared in a courtroom Wednesday morning to pursue his lawsuit against the Golden Nugget over a Wynn Las Vegas executive hired away to work at the Golden Nugget Laughlin.

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

Bally Gaming and Systems, a business unit of Alliance Gaming Corp., reports its third annual Systems User Conference will be held on Nov. 15-16 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

Hooters hosted a "casting party' designed to fill jobs at what promises to be Las Vegas' most-intriguing resort debut of 2006.

Professional poker player Mike "The Mouth" Matusow outlasted the biggest names in the game to win the Tournament of Champions and $1 million at Caesars Palace Casino in Las Vegas.

Hilda Fitch took home the top prize of $1 million at the world's largest slot machine tournament held last night at Harrah's Las Vegas.

Racking up an abundance of high-cost legal fees made Oscar Goodman a multimillionaire in his days as an elite trial defense attorney.

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority board may go to court to make sure that its popular tourism slogan, 'What happens here, stays here,' also applies to the slogan itself.

The top executive of the Fremont Street Experience, the company that oversees the light show canopy and retail mall, thinks downtown Las Vegas needs to better capitalize on its "Vintage Vegas" theme.

A planned $1.8 billion resort six miles south of the Strip on Las Vegas Boulevard South was unanimously approved by the Henderson City Council last week.

News Brief: Boomtown Reno hotel-casino will be renovated in the next year, but officials didn't have any new information to offer Monday regarding negotiations with Cabela's outdoor retailer.

The iconic Fremont Street hotel-casino had an operating loss of $762,000, well below its $80,000 profit in the same period a year ago, owner MTR Gaming Group said Monday.

Strip clubs have long been magnets for controversy, and a series of recent issues at Las Vegas clubs have renewed the debate over the strip club industry.

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