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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.

Trees to separate homes from new Station casinos project.

When planning a special event or group outing, top restaurants have plenty to offer.

News Brief: Sierra Leone writer finds refuge in Vegas, through the City of Asylum program.

By imposing a betting limit and permitting bets on college games held in Nevada, the states' leaders are hoping to stave off a federal prohibition of college sports betting.

MGM Mirage has already said it's looking at other options for using the 19 acres that the theme park occupies, valuable land behind the Strip’s MGM Grand.

MGM Mirage has put all of the rides at MGM Grand Adventures theme park up for sale, the strongest signal yet that the MGM Grand may close the popular attraction near the Las Vegas Strip.

News Brief: The one form of entertainment that has been as synonymous with this city as neon and gambling, is being replaced.