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CityCenter today commemorated the 'topping out' of its 57-story Vdara Condo Hotel, the first of six distinctive high-rise towers that will be topped within the coming months.

MGM Mirage officials will top out CityCenter's 57-story Vdara Condo Hotel today.

Operators of Star Trek: The Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton might soon be telling Sin City, "Qapla'."

News Brief: Anti-gambling legislation that would have banned ATMs and any credit extensions from Louisiana casinos narrowly failed Tuesday.

News Brief: Slots wagers rose slightly across the state last week, while Mount Airy reported a small drop in betting.

News Brief: June 2nd is the day Hoosier Park will open its casino in Anderson, bringing Las Vegas-style gambling within a 40-mile drive of Downtown Indianapolis.

News Brief: Unwilling to leave Atlantic City without a fight, the former owners of the Tropicana Casino and Resort urged an appeals court Tuesday to give them back their license and stop the casino's sale.

News Brief: Progress on Red Hawk Casino includes a pretty porte-cochere, a pandemonium of hammered steel and aluminum and plans for the stretch drive.

News Brief: The Navajo Gaming Enterprise has less than six months to construct the Nation’s first casino in Churchrock and may not meet its Oct. 15 target opening date, according to NGE General Counsel Ray Etcitty.

News Brief: Greektown Casino was told it has until June 10 to come up with a convincing argument why the Michigan Gaming Control Board should not force casino owners to sell the gaming hall.

The California Charity Alliance reports its formation to advocate for the use of traditional and technologically advanced forms of bingo as a responsible, legal and consistent funding source for nonprofit charities.

Donny and Marie Osmond will host an open casting call, which kicks off today, in search of talented dancers to be part of their all-new production at Flamingo Las Vegas, opening Sept. 9.

News Brief: Construction at Hoosier Park continues to be on time and on budget, Rick Moore, general manager of racing at Hoosier Park, reported to the Indiana Horse Racing Commission on Monday.

News Brief: According to a recent study, Pennsylvania legislation proposed to more than double the allowable payouts at bingo games can't trump the power of real casinos.

News Brief: A veto threat, backed by opposition from a number of Democratic senators, scuttled the latest attempt Monday to pass a compromise Pennsylvania public-places smoking ban.

Legendary former Las Vegas bookmaker, Scott Schettler has a theory on why the current economic turbulence has affected Las Vegas in a way previous recessions did not.

News Brief: The South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled that casino boat companies do not have to report monthly wagers at gambling machines to the state, a move that some say could make it hard for municipalities to collect casino boat taxes.

News Brief: The California Senate has passed a bill that would prohibit the governor from negotiating gambling compacts with Indian tribes until they have qualified gaming land.

News Brief: A federal judge has put on hold, for now, his order that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and North County's Rincon Indian band reach an agreement on a gambling expansion by July.

Starting Thursday, May 15, Cherokee Casino Resort kicks off its first Mid-South Poker Classic, the second of three major tournaments this year