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Opponents and planners of a new resort in Summerlin met for four hours Monday night in an effort to find a compromise design for the new Red Rock Station.

An Oklahoma woman feels she's entitled to a $42.9 million payment after hitting a jackpot on a quarter machine at the Mandalay Bay Resort on the Las Vegas Strip.

News Brief: To the world, Nevada is all about slot machines and a roll of the dice. But now the state is about to begin selling a new vision of Nevada.

Not one high-rolling gambler played in the Strip's three private casinos between March 1 and Nov. 30, the Gaming Control Board reported Monday.

Visitors to Las Vegas have a newfound belief that the city is as vulnerable as the rest of the nation to terror attacks, an MRC Group Research Institute survey released Monday showed.

American Casino & Entertainment Properties has agreed to acquire Arizona Charlie's Decatur and Arizona Charlie's Boulder, two casinos in Las Vegas.

Nevada's economy is on the mend but it won't return to the explosive growth experienced in the 1990s, says state Controller Kathy Augustine.

The woman who stages important parties, weddings and other special events for Bellagio, MGM Grand, The Mirage, Treasure Island and New York-New York is a big advantage for the company, they say.

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

The Golden Nugget will likely change hands in about three weeks, as Nevada gaming regulators are slated to consider the prospective buyers' license applications at meetings in Las Vegas on Wednesday and Jan. 22.

First-year performance at the Cannery was strong enough that the property now has plans for a multiscreen movie theater, additional casino space and a parking garage, owners Bill Wortman and Bill Paulos said Friday.

Opponents of Station Casinos' proposed resort in Summerlin base part of their argument against the proposed 300-foot tower on the way another of the gaming company's casinos in Henderson took shape.

News Brief: Police officials in Reno and at Lake Tahoe say their New Year celebrations were crowded, but relatively uneventful.

Armed helicopters will patrol the restricted airspace over the Strip on New Year's Eve to protect Las Vegas from a potential terrorist attack, authorities said Tuesday.

Binion's Horseshoe's financial problems are apparently driving the 52-year-old downtown gambling hall to try to sell the property's most valuable assets, including the rights to the granddaddy of poker tournaments, the World Series of Poker, sources said.

Las Vegas hotel operators and airlines serving McCarran International Airport are being required by the FBI to turn over all guest and passenger names and personal information, at least during the holiday period, several sources said Tuesday.

Strip resorts that had seen a drop-off in occupancy rates attributed to terrorist threats already are now seeing rooms fill up as the countdown toward 2004 rolls on.

Federal officials will restrict flights in the airspace over the Strip on New Year's Eve because of heightened concerns that Las Vegas could be attacked, authorities said Monday.

Cancellations for New Year's Eve jumped dramatically in the past week at previously sold-out Strip hotels, a Deutsche Bank survey found Monday.

News Brief: Illusionist Roy Horn, who was attacked by a tiger during a show in Las Vegas in October, has returned home from hospital.