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News Brief: The Atlantis Casino Resort & Spa in south Reno cranked up its first-quarter profit despite the winter weather that chilled business the first few months of 2005.

Federal officials have urged a Senate panel to stiffen regulations on tribal gambling, which has mushroomed into an $18.5 billion industry.

A group of investors is trying to buy the Reno Hilton with plans to add condominiums and indoor water park to the property.

Hotel employees from 25 Las Vegas properties took part in the hospitality competition at the International Hotel & Restaurant Show on Thursday. Contests included bedmaking, buffer pad tosses and vacuum relays.

So much for Vanity Fair's exclusive on the first photographic images from inside the $2.7 billion Wynn Las Vegas. The high-end monthly magazine has been scooped by Joann Stabile of New York City with a digital camera.

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.