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Columnist Jon Ralston: Should Mayor Goodman exercise more prudence before allowing an Internet company to rent the city's imprint on a new Australian gambling website?

Station Casinos' promises to tighten control over its political activities, as it coughs up a $475,000 fine to the Nevada State Gaming Commission.

The UK company has an elegant - and quiet - casino on the mezzanine level of the new Aladdin. Its well-dressed dealers are "dignified," but "not haughty."

Wrapping around most of the new Aladdin hotel-casino, Desert Passage tries to improve on the highly successful formula begun by the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace.

Nevada regulators approve the $300 million deal. Roski will keep the Hilton name on the big hotel-casino, which will no longer cater to high rollers.

The Las Vegas casino will get a $1 million tax refund. The fight involved gaming taxes on revenue that was never collected on markers.

A man accused of shooting a tourist at Harrah's hotel-casino last month may get his death wish granted.

With all the bells and whistles of a typical Las Vegas hotel style billboard, this state-of-the art graphics and video display confirms the massive market growth to the online gaming market in just a few short years.

The restaurants, Anasazi of Sante Fe and Beluga Bar, complain that the mall's business has been slow and that promises have not been kept.

With the loss of titans Wynn and Goldberg, the question is, as one blunt insider put it, have we lost our testicles?

The space at New York-New York may be taken by ESPN Zone, a themed sports restaurant. The Motown Café, which opened three years ago, had been struggling recently.

Club Paradise owner fights getting listed in Nevada’s Black Book.

Sam Cecola, founder of a topless dancing club in Las Vegas, has served notice he will fight an effort to include his name in the Black Book, which would bar him from Nevada casinos.

Last week's announcement that the world-famed Guggenheim Foundation of New York and Russia's State Hermitage Museum would set up shop at the Venetian was viewed as a quantum leap forward for the culture of Las Vegas.

The giant computer trade show, which was founded and later sold by Venetian owner Sheldon Adelson, alleges that Adelson is retaliating because Comdex is scheduling keynote speakers at other hotels.

News Brief: Las Vegas' metro area has grown by 62 percent between April 1990 and July 1999 to 1,381,086 million, the largest percentage growth for any metro area in the country, the US Census Bureau says.

Arthur Goldberg built the Paris Las Vegas resort, and presided over the world's biggest gaming company.

Though the Suncoast is succeeding with "coinless" gaming , other Strip resorts are looking carefully at coinless technology.

City Council members’ approval for two casino-hotels are met with resistance from residents.

A Los Angeles high-rolling alcoholic has failed in his lawsuit accusing the Rio hotel-casino in Las Vegas of using sex and liquor to entice him to gamble.