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The Clark County Fire Department has decided to issue no citations in connection with the Jan. 25 three-alarm fire at the Monte Carlo.

News Brief: Las Vegas would like to hold on to one myth in particular these days: Gambling is recession proof.

News Brief: Workers at the Mountaineer Casino Racetrack & Resort in Chester, West Virginia, voted Tuesday to reject the company's latest contract proposal and to authorize a strike.

News Brief: Rep. John Conyers Jr. is clashing with Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman John Dingell over the thorny issue of Indian gambling, setting up a standoff between two of the oldest bulls in Congress.

News Brief: The Maine House of Representatives gave preliminary approval today to a bill allowing a Maine Indian tribe to operate up to 400 slot machines, if it has a license to run high-stakes bingo games.

News Brief: In a dispute that has been quietly simmering for months, Indian casinos and charities are about to square off over the future of electronic bingo in California.

Casino dealers in Las Vegas are cheering a landmark ruling last week by a California court against a tip-sharing policy at Starbucks they hope will build public support for a similar lawsuit filed by dealers at Wynn Las Vegas.

Resorts Atlantic City announced that Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. will perform in the Superstar Theater April 6 & 7, 9 – 11, 2008.

In the April issue of Men’s Vogue, Michael Kaplan visits the 12th annual Blackjack Ball in Las Vegas, where the world’s most skilled blackjack players very discreetly convene to imbibe and talk shop.

The 2008 Nautica Charity Poker Festivals will begin this Thursday in a new, 12,000 sq. ft. facility located inside The Powerhouse at the Nautica Entertainment Complex.

News Brief: An unprecedented joint casino venture between two San Diego County Indian tribes appears to be dead after federal officials rejected a gambling agreement needed to build the long-stalled project.

The economic slowdown has the casino industry facing its toughest challenge since the months following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to a report released Friday by a leading Wall Street bond rating house.

Proponents of two ballot initiatives that ask voters to reallocate hotel room tax dollars away from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority might not be finding much support.

Business at the Monte Carlo has mostly returned to normal after a rooftop fire two months ago, according to Monte Carlo President Anton Nikodemus said.

The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and every municipality in Clark County filed a lawsuit late Thursday to disqualify two potential November ballot initiatives that would divert room tax dollars away from tourism support and into either public education or public safety improvements.

Basketball fans jam Las Vegas Strip spots like the 40/40 Club as the NCAA Tournament begins.

A 50 percent interest in Las Vegas' oldest hotel-casino was sold Thursday to an investment partnership controlled by two brothers whose family made their fortune manufacturing nuts and bolts in the Midwest.

The Nevada Gaming Commission took less than 20 minutes Thursday to restore Angelo Stamis' place in the casino industry, ending a 33-year road to redemption for the assistant general manager of Jerry's Nugget.

Spa Resort Casino in Palm Springs is taking some of the sting out of tax-time with its 1040 EZ slot promotion in April.

The Tropicana Casino & Resort announced today their plans to create a new slot environment in Atlantic City.