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For the 11th consecutive year, a Los Angeles-based magazine that monitors the global convention industry, ranked Las Vegas ranked atop the Tradeshow Week’s 200.

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.

While many expect a gleaming future for Steve Wynn's latest megaresort, Wynn Las Vegas, it is built on the site of the old Desert Inn, which carries a rich past.

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.

Sol Kerzner, who has developed resorts in South Africa, Mauritius, Dubai, Maldives, Mexico, and The Bahamas, says that he is still interested in entering the competition in Las Vegas.

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.

News Brief: The Oregon Legislature gave its final OK Wednesday to legislation allowing charities to stage Texas Hold 'Em events as fundraisers.

News Brief: North Carolina private gambling interests are paying attention to the lottery debate and wondering how much of their business is going to be lost if a state lottery is legalized.

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: A bill moving through the Legislature could usher in a new day for Lotto Texas, allowing players to buy tickets online and pay with a debit card.

News Brief: The New Jersey Division of Civil Rights has launched an investigation into Borgata’s weight policy for their cocktail waitresses.

Allegiant Air will begin nonstop flights twice a week between Las Vegas and the border city of McAllen, Texas, beginning June 24.