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Las Vegas Sands, owner of The Venetian, Tuesday posted record-smashing results for the first quarter of 2004 with cash flow of $103.9 million, edging out the Bellagio's standout $99 million first-quarter cash flow.

San Diego tourism officials hope to make waves in the desert this summer through their largest-ever media blitz encouraging Southern Nevadans to vacation in the Pacific resort town.

The valley's growing population is going to set the trend for emerging business opportunities in Las Vegas and foreign-born immigrants represent the largest segment of that growth, a demographic researcher said Tuesday.

Steve Wynn plans to knock down the Desert Inn’s St. Andrews Tower by the end of October to make way for an expansion of the yet-to-open megaresort.

The Venetian megaresort has shattered Las Vegas hotel-casino profitability records during the first quarter.

A woman on trial on a charge of murdering a man for his winning sports bet ticket used mental health records Monday in an attempt to discredit the state's key eyewitness.

Simon Cooper, president of the five-diamond Ritz-Carlton hotel company, has been shopping for a site on the Strip to develop a second Las Vegas area five-star, luxury hotel.

ews Brief: A Nevada company is hoping to win the business of gaming operators around the world with a new technology it says could port casino games onto mobile phones.

The Nevada Supreme Court says the state Gaming Control Board and one of its agents are immune from a lawsuit in a case where a Las Vegas man was held for questioning about cheating the Resort at Summerlin in July 1999.

Swedish player Martin Dekenijff won the biggest-money event in poker history Friday night, collecting $2.7 million when he captured the World Poker Tour Championship at the Bellagio resort on the Las Vegas Strip.

New York advertising agency has won an account with the Hard Rock hotel-casino in Las Vegas for a non-traditional marketing campaign that could cost as much as $10 million.

Nevada gaming officials are concerned that rapid advances in betting kiosks technology could generate problems in regulating the Nevada casino industry.

Fears about terrorism and the city's "What happens here, stays here" ad campaign are fading as issues in helping visitors decide whether or not to come to Las Vegas, pollsters said Friday.

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

Lund & Manasse Advertising recently launched a new Web site, designed to give small gaming operators access to advertising agency-quality posters.

America West Airlines initiated new service today between its Las Vegas hub and Burbank, California.

Shovels of dirt were turned at the groundbreaking of Coast Casinos newest property, South Coast, in Las Vegas.

The Nevada Gaming Commission gave final approval Thursday to a Southern California man to reopen the Regency Casino in Laughlin but warned him to adhere to Nevada's strict accounting regulations.

World Series of Poker kicks off the first of 32 public games today at Binion's Horseshoe in downtown Las Vegas.

American Casino & Entertainment reports net revenues for 2003 amounted to $262.8 million, an increase of $12.8 million, or 5.1%, over 2002.