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Crews broke ground Tuesday on a 70,000-square-foot Brunswick Bowling Center at Station Casinos' Sunset Station casino in Henderson.

In the early 1980s, then-Golden Nugget owner Steve Wynn placed the downtown Las Vegas resort on the national consciousness using a series of clever television ads.

When Los Angeles resident Scott Abramowitz comes to Las Vegas, he bypasses newer resorts such as Bellagio and Mandalay Bay to stay at Caesars Palace.

Las Vegas' summer travel season got a strong Memorial Day kickoff as tourists shook off record-high gasoline prices to fill the city's hotels, show rooms and restaurants.

The Aladdin hotel-casino had another profitable month in April, according to a filing with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Las Vegas.

Station Casinos Inc.'s gamble on the Thunder Valley Casino in Northern California is paying off, spurring more Indian tribes look to the Las Vegas company for helping opening casinos.

Gaming stocks, after enduring a month-long selling binge in which average prices skidded more than 15 percent, rallied in the last two weeks of May.

Many Las Vegas casinos that were racing to shut down their poker rooms just a few years ago are rushing to reopen or enlarge them now.

News Brief: A 20-year-old Reno woman was arrested on accusations that she took a backpack containing a sawed-off shotgun and rounds of ammunition into a casino, police said.

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

News Brief: Love briefly dared to raise its head Friday night at America's most brutal poker brawl.

News Brief: South on Las Vegas Boulevard, well beyond the casino-scraped skyline, there is a three-story hotel where tourists seldom go.

News Brief: There is nothing weird about gambling in the middle of a hotel swimming pool in Las Vegas, and not just because nothing is weird in Las Vegas.

Kathryn Harris had already won two jackpots totaling over $3,000 and her husband had won $2,000 before she hit the $1.6 million jackpot on the new nickel Wheel of Fortune® Special Edition video slot at Boulder Station.

Steven Allmaras, slot manager at the Virgin River hotel in Mesquite, was bludgeoned and stabbed in his own home.

Nevada Senator Harry Reid says that if Democrats win control of the Senate this November, he may try to become chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs to head off Indian gaming measures that could hurt casino companies.

Expensive oil and new threats aren't expected to deter more visitors from spending this Memorial Day weekend traveling to Southern Nevada and other popular destinations.

Caesars Palace plans to open an exotic-car dealership in October, a marketing ploy industry experts say should help polish the resort's once-tarnished image.

One of the unsuccessful bidders for the Aladdin hotel-casino and the Las Vegas Hilton is acquiring the Alexis Park Hotel and plans to build a casino on the property.

Culinary union members will soon see a substantial wage boost because of cost savings in the union's health plan that are being passed on in hourly pay increases, a union official said Wednesday.