No walls were knocked down, no towers went up, but the Plaza has an entirely new look. The resort’s yearlong, $35 million overhaul is complete. “They’ve had mini-makeovers, but nothing this extensive," spokeswoman Amy Maier said.
The American Gaming Association, which in recent years has shifted from being neutral toward online poker to an advocate for legislation approving it, has created a video comparing Internet poker today to the American Wild West.
About a year after Wynn Las Vegas opened in 2005, executives took square footage from a bar in order to expand a nearby baccarat pit. Less than two years after Encore opened next door, the resort’s porte cochere was removed to make way for a 60,000-square-foot party venue — Encore Beach Club and Surrender nightclub.
Attorneys are fighting for every possible advantage in the overtime lawsuits against Las Vegas Sands Corp. and CEO Sheldon Adelson, with a new skirmish under way over where Adelson's deposition will be taken.
A third lawsuit has been filed over efforts by regulators to rein in the Dotty’s slot machine parlor business model in Nevada. The Nevada Gaming Commission on Aug. 25 adopted rules requiring small bar-like gaming operators to have a permanent bar.
Longtime University of Nevada, Reno gaming researcher William Eadington will be inducted in to the American Gaming Association’s Hall of Fame in November, the AGA said today.
Moody's Investors Service today boosted a debt rating for Boyd Gaming Corp. of Las Vegas. The rating on Boyd's $500 million in senior unsecured notes was raised to B3 from Caa1.
Former FBI director Louis Freeh has joined Fair Play USA, a coalition backed by Caesars Entertainment and MGM Resorts International that is pushing for Congress to adopt federal regulations allowing online poker.
Four months after the Sahara’s final day of operation, the last remnants of the Rat Pack-era casino are gone. A liquidation sale to empty the 59-year-old resort has ended.
International casino giant Las Vegas Sands Corp. has hit its former Macau CEO with new accusations that he stole massive amounts of sensitive company information and now refuses to return it.
A Nevada judge has thrown out a criminal indictment alleging that "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis didn't pay a $2.5 million gambling debt to a Las Vegas Strip casino.
