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After selling Las Vegas across the globe for more than a quarter century, one of this city's greatest road warriors is grateful she can finally spend some time at home.

A multitude of mouths longing to pacify their palates can make dining in Summerlin an exercise in patience.

Red Rock Casino, Resort and Spa from Station Casinos, Inc., the first billion-dollar resort to be built off the Las Vegas Strip, will open Tuesday in the upscale master-planned community of Summerlin.

Chris “Jesus” Ferguson is a busy man. Exclusively a tournament player, Ferguson travels around the world, buying-in to poker’s biggest events.

News Brief: Navajo Nation officials, including President Joe Shirley Jr., met with federal gaming officials in Albuquerque, New Mexico, last week to discuss the tribe"s plan to bui

News Brief: Negotiations in the Best Bet Casino inverse-condemnation lawsuit have bogged down over the issue of litigation expenses, with the attorney for the casino asking for $263,507.

News Brief: A North Richmond, California, advisory group failed Tuesday to come up with a list of concerns about a planned Las Vegas-styled casino in its community.

News Brief: Harrah's Station Square Casino has the potential to ‘blow up’ traffic congestion on the Pittsburgh’s South Side, an independent traffic engineer told the city's Gaming Task Force today.

News Brief: A long-awaited study on the proposed Cowlitz Tribe's casino complex advocates building a huge project that would employ nearly 3,200 people.

News Brief: Greektown Casino led Detroit casinos in revenue growth for March, registering a 14.6% rise, the Michigan Gaming Control Board reports.

February’s nearly 2.98 million visitors were enough to make this the busiest February on record, up 0.9 percent from a year ago.

Two Las Vegas gaming-equipment providers are developing a device that could eventually let slot customers make credit-card and debit-card withdrawals directly at the game.

A Las Vegas tourism official on Wednesday showcased Southern Nevada's approach to marketing itself as an oasis for "adult freedom" in a speech before international tourism leaders

Slowly, and certainly not silently, a Chinese invasion looms before the U.S. travel industry.

There was one winning Powerball jackpot ticket worth a whopping $224.2 million sold in Missouri and a ticket that won $800,000 with Power Play in Pennsylvania.

Mount Airy Resort & Casino cleared another hurdle as the Paradise Township Planning Commission voted unanimously Tuesday night to recommend that the Township Board of Supervisors review and approve Phase I of a $360 million plan to redevelop the site of the former Mt. Airy Lodge.

The California Council for Excellence has awarded Sycuan Resort and Casino the 2006 California Challenge Award.

News Brief: Voters in Colma on Tuesday supported unlimited betting at a local casino in poker and Asian games in an advisory measure intended to sway the California Legislature to allow no-limit gambling.

When 39-year old Alan Sofer was in high school, one of his teachers had hemophilia. A complication during surgery cost that teacher his life and the experience has stayed with Sofer.

News Brief: The Casino Association of New Jersey Tuesday released results of a study that estimated the gaming industry will generate more than $980 million in state and local taxes and other obligations in 2006.