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A sex company has no constitutional right to place news racks for its advertisements on the privately owned sidewalks in front of casino resorts on the Las Vegas Strip, a federal judge ruled.

As casino workers prepare to vote to authorize their negotiating committees to call a strike, some of the union's members remember the 1984 strike that lasted 67 days and prompted bombings, assaults, arrests, and severe economic repercussions for Southern Nevada.

News Brief: Culinary Local 226 officials demanded the reinstatement of three Circus Circus workers suspended after a Friday melee in the property's employee dining room.

The American labor movement is prepared to back a Culinary Union strike with all of its muscle if contract negotiations with the casino industry break down at the end of the month, the nation's No. 2 labor leader said Wednesday.

Entertainer Robert Goulet is in negotiations to perform at `City By the Bay,’ the $1 billion San Francisco-themed resort proposed by Phil Ruffin.

Here is a comprehensive and credible comparison of Las Vegas reel slot returns.

Culinary Union leaders said today that at least six of its members were injured during a melee with security officers last week at a Circus Circus employee cafeteria.

Las Vegas Culinary Union leaders are spreading word of their heated contract negotiations with the casino industry to Wall Street investors and vendors who deal with casinos.

Warehouse employees at the Bellagio hotel-casino voted for representation by the Teamsters Union in a Friday vote.

A Las Vegas developer has proposed a $50 million Hilton-branded hotel and casino on Sahara Avenue, just off the Las Vegas Strip.

News Brief: Jose Troncoso has decided to leave his post as the U.S. marshal of Nevada to become vice president of corporate security for Station Casinos.

A long-standing business next to the Stratosphere has joined the fray over the casino's proposed thrill ride, saying the casino has refused to release traffic and noise studies that would show how the ride would affect the area.

The Venetian is apparently moving forward again with a $200 million expansion plan, as part of a $1.33 billion refinancing of its debt.

The political and financial needs of Culinary Local 226 may help explain the 45,000-member union's push for a possible work stoppage at Las Vegas-area hotel-casinos, a top Las Vegas gaming executive said Friday.

Aggressive competition for twentysomething customers has seen some Las Vegas casino operators allow risqué sexual activity within public spaces, argues a Nevada Gaming Control Board member.

Culinary Local 226 is increasing the pressure on gaming executives by mailing warnings to 50,000 travel agents throughout the country of a possible summertime strike at Las Vegas hotel-casinos.

A 13-count indictment was handed down by a federal grand jury alleging a former slot technician supervisor at Treasure Island illegally sold some of the Las Vegas casino's slot machines for his own profit.

Nevada gaming regulators would have more say on whether industry mergers and acquisitions would be in the best interests of the state under a proposed regulation.

News Brief: Room rates on the Strip are showing increased strength for Memorial Day weekend and the preceding weekday period, a Wall Street analyst reported.

A jury awarded $200,000 in damages to a former MGM Grand worker who filed a wrongful termination lawsuit in 1998 against the hotel-casino and the now-closed Official All Star Cafe on the Las Vegas Strip.