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News Brief: A bill promoted as anti-gambling stalled on the Senate floor after opponents described it as pro-gambling.

News Brief: Never gambled in a casino? Atlantic City's gaming halls want to change that. And some of them are offering sweet deals to any new customer who walks in the door.

News Brief: Mayor Rudy Clay said he and city attorneys will review a casino deal former mayor Scott King renegotiated just months before he resigned and went to work for the casino

According to a recent survey by Russell Research, Americans think that Robert DeNiro, Donald Trump, Joe Torre all have good poker faces.

News Brief: With two ballot questions this year on where you can light up in public, the dispute over secondhand smoke continues to smolder.

City councilmen will bus restaurant tables as chief executive officers pull down six-figure salaries for parking cars during the absurd events of Nevada National Tourism Week.

A selection of news and views from inside the industry this week.

British vacationers have for years crossed the Atlantic to trade London fog for a brief run of Las Vegas sun and fun.

The Hard Rock Hotel is going to get a little pricier, as the new owner intends to grow earnings from $40 million to $50 million a year, the chief executive officer of New York-base

News Brief: Tribe hires an environmental consulting firm in hopes of gaining the governor's approval for a $200 million casino.

Mayor A.J. Holloway Holloway said Wednesday that casinos will once again serve as the catalyst to revitalize the small community ravaged by Hurricane Katrina last year.

News Brief: A casino bus hit a utility truck head-on Thursday afternoon on Colorado 119 near Black Hawk, triggering a second accident and injuring at least 10 people, two seriously

News Brief: Isle of Capri Casinos will expand its gaming offerings in southeast Florida with a $140 million slots parlor at Pompano Park Harness Track.

Proponents of downtown redevelopment are counting on new hotel-casinos to spice up an entertainment district proposed for Las Vegas' 61-acre Union Park site.

The Hard Rock Hotel, a pop icon in Las Vegas with its signature neon guitar and concert venue, The Joint, has been sold to New York-based Morgans Hotel Group for $770 million.

News Brief: Ho-Chunk Nation leaders are considering a new casino somewhere in Wisconsin, a spokeswoman said Thursday, and a decision could be made public early next week.

News Brief: Many who oppose a proposed Indian casino here evidently think (UND students could be a potent political force) because they're asking the City Council not to put the is

News Brief: Morgans Hotel Group Co. has agreed to buy the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas for $770 million in cash from the property's founder and chairman.

News Brief: For the first time since it debuted nearly three years ago, the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa was not Atlantic City's top-grossing casino. Bally's Atlantic City casino