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Saturday brings the debut of Franco Dragone's fourth Las Vegas opus, ‘Le Reve -- A Small Collection of Imperfect Dreams.’

The Industry Leaders Forum will again headline the Annual East Coast Gaming Congress, to be held May 26 at Historic Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City.

A Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority official says that Wynn Las Vegas is expected to be a significant player in the meetings and convention market.

Wynn Las Vegas aims to attract the world's wealthiest travelers, people who avoid big Las Vegas casinos for the likes of a Four Seasons or a Ritz Carlton.

Technological innovations and architectural marvels abound at Wynn Las Vegas.

Observers are watching with eager anticipation the curtain rising on two new production shows Steve Wynn is bringing to Las Vegas to enhance his new resort.

Gamal Aziz, MGM Grand president, was honored along with Wolfgang Puck's operations chief Tom Kaplan at the 26th annual Las Vegas International Hotel & Restaurant Show.

Wynn Las Vegas, Steve Wynn's $2.7 billion megaresort, opened to a crush of at least 10,000 people after the stroke of midnight today in time to celebrate his wife Elaine's birthday.

Union organizers were able to get a majority of the cocktail servers, bartenders, maids, porters and food service workers at Wynn Las Vegas to agree to join the union, Arte Nathan, chief human resources officer of Wynn Las Vegas, said.

Because no one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday's drawing the jackpot will grow to an estimated $63 million.

News Brief: The Tohono O'odham Nation plans to tear down its original, bare-bones Desert Diamond Casino complex at and replace it with an opulent casino, 200-room hotel and restaurants.

News Brief: The New Jersey Division of Civil Rights has launched an investigation into Borgata’s weight policy for their cocktail waitresses.

The House dealt a major setback Tuesday to Gov. Tim Pawlenty's plan to pad the state budget with gambling money, sending a bill that would establish two casinos at Canterbury Park back to a committee seen as hostile.

News Brief: Police are calling it a chance encounter that ended with one man dead in front of The Palms.

Even though Las Vegas developer Steve Wynn is building the most expensive resort ever, few industry insiders and experts are betting against him being able to make a profit on his new megaresort.

News Brief: Jacob Entertainment, a national gaming company, that runs three casinos and a horse track is interested in buying bankrupt racing track Vernon Downs.

News Brief: Two casinos are better than one, and Tulalip Casino and the Quil Ceda Creek Casino are committed to making entertainment wishes a reality.

Unlike Steve Wynn's previous hotel unveilings, when man-made volcanoes, dancing water fountains, pirate battles and pyrotechnic building implosions signaled a new beginning, the lifting of the wall of silence surrounding the $2.7 billion Wynn Las Vegas won't be any more than a simple countdown on the resort's marquee.

Play to Win reports that Ken Einiger from Las Vegas is this year's World Champion of Blackjack.

John G. Brokopp: Zucker’s first round was a video poker player’s dream.