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Station Casinos, which owns two Fiesta casinos in the Las Vegas area, filed trademark infringement lawsuits over the name fiestacasinos.com. One defendant is International Thunderbird Gaming.

News Brief: Las Vegas casinos are hoping that the Year of the Horse brings better luck than the Year of the Snake, following a year that saw Asian travel to the city virtually vanish after Sept. 11.

Casino companies throughout Las Vegas have continued their heightened level of security following the jetliner attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

The news that Harrah's Entertainment expects it will handily beat analyst expectations for the last quarter sent Harrah's stock up more than 4 percent this morning to a 52-week high.

A project to convert the Lady Luck hotel-casino's west hotel tower into a timeshare complex has been approved by the Las Vegas Planning Commission.

Barry Michaels is following in the footsteps of state Sen. Joe Neal, in an effort to boost taxes on the gambling industry.

Nevada political leaders, long opposed to the plan to store nuclear wastes at Yucca Mountain, 100 miles from Las Vegas, were angered by John Sununu’s comment that the state should “do its part” for homeland security.

The casino industry has either been a leading voice in the battle to defeat the plan to store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain or has played a relatively benign role in the debate depending on the person delivering the analysis.

Jose Vigoa, the alleged mastermind behind a series of casino robberies and a double homicide, will be tried on a consolidated slate of charges.

Winnings by Nevada casinos dropped in November, the third consecutive month of declines blamed on the terrorism in September.

His new water-themed resort, on the site of the old Desert Inn, will cost $1.63 billion. It should open by September 2004.

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas' fund-raising organization will soon have a small stake in Jackie Gaughan's three downtown Las Vegas casinos and, as a result, those casinos will no longer accept bets on UNLV.

Gary Loveman took some flak from Control Board members, who were concerned by Loveman's public criticism of the gaming regulatory process last August.

Capital One , which acquired the Vacation Village hotel-casino out of bankruptcy for $17.8 million, said it's now talking with two gaming operators about a possible joint venture to redevelop the 315-room property.

With many Culinary Union members still out of work and the union’s contracts with all Las Vegas Strip hotels soon to expire, the union and casinos’ generally warm relationship is facing its greatest test.

The bankrupt Aladdin megaresort improved its recent results, performing significantly better than property bosses had earlier forecast, an Aladdin lawyer told a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge Tuesday.

News Brief: The world's second largest gambling company is set to enter the UK market in the coming months with the launch of an online betting business.

The small casino, which is two miles south of Mandalay Bay, was expected to close early Wednesday because of a dispute between its new owner and the family that operated it.

Steve DuCharme, former head of the Nevada Gaming Control Board, joins WMS Gaming as a consultant – just days after he is legally able to work in the industry.

A federal judge in Las Vegas ordered two Internet website companies and their owners to stop registering or trafficking domain names containing the trademarks of five Las Vegas gaming companies.