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Patrons were able to return to the Slots-A-Fun casino this afternoon and Las Vegas Boulevard was reopened after a suspicious package was found earlier today at the Las Vegas Strip casino.

As part of our blowout coverage of Wayne Newton, we asked our readers for their questions for Mr. Las Vegas. Newton was kind enough to answer them.

The owner of the 2,518-room Planet Hollywood hotel-casino on Monday reported another quarterly loss and disclosed that its lenders are now in control of its finances. BH/RE LLC, the Las Vegas Strip resort's parent company, said that for the quarter ended Sept. 30 it lost $17.5 million vs. a l...

With Las Vegas tourism in the dumps, Virginia Ridgway, a retired gift shop owner in Goldfield — a mining boomtown decades before Vegas became a vacation hot spot — is doing her part. She hosted a luncheon to present her catchphrase, “Deal Vegas In,” to tourism bigwigs in Las Vegas including...

Wayne Newton is going to tell a story, and it’s not about his playing poker with Sinatra, recording with Bobby Darin or counseling Elvis about his divorce. It’s about the day he realized Vegas was home. It speaks volumes about Newton, 50 years a Vegas showman and now headlining through April...

Las Vegas is home to three more AAA Five Diamond winners, AAA Travel announced today. Nevada and Florida tied by adding three properties to the list -- more than any other state. The latest additions include The Ritz-Carlton at Lake Las Vegas, Encore Las Vegas and the Palazzo in the hotel cat...

A second former Fontainebleau Las Vegas executive is joining the Tropicana Las Vegas, the company announced today.

Gawking at Komodo dragons, jellyfish, and sharks, hundreds of costumed children piled into the Haunted Reef at Mandalay Bay on Saturday for Halloween candy and thrills. “No matter how many time she sees it, it’s like she’s never seen it before,” said Nicole Craney, 30, of Las Vegas, about...

The WEC officially announced today its main event matchup between lightweights Donald Cerrone and Ed Ratcliffe at The Palms on Dec. 19. The organization was already scheduled to make a Las Vegas appearance before the new year with a Nov. 18 featherweight title fight between Mike Brown and J...

Metro Police today are asking for the public's help in identifying and finding a man who robbed a Las Vegas Valley casino in the eastern valley on Saturday. The man walked into the rear of a casino at Boulder Highway and Desert Inn Road at about 5 a.m. and went to the cashier's counter, police sai...

It was a musically-diverse weekend in Las Vegas, as U2, The Black Eyed Peas, Alice Cooper, Everlast, Gordon Lightfoot, and LeAnn Rimes all performed on Friday.

Despite Nevada’s tough economic climate and growing jobless rate, casino executives today said they are seeing the benefits of federal stimulus dollars flowing to Las Vegas. In the wake of national media appearances by two high-profile Las Vegas casino executives, Harrah’s Entertai...

Las Vegas-born comedian J. Reid filmed the show Who’s Got Jokes? with Last Comic Standing host Bill Bellamy last April at The Luxor, and the hour-long stand-up competition is playing now at 10 p.m. Saturdays on TV One on Cox cable channel 363.

Las Vegas-based Pinnacle Entertainment might see its riverboat casino in Baton Rouge, La., open by late 2011.

The Venetian casino-resort on the Las Vegas Strip has prevailed in a two-year-old lawsuit accusing it of violating copyright law by allegedly stealing a San Francisco firm's design for thousands of light fixtures used in a room remodeling project.

As far as first tests go, the United Football League certainly didn’t fail in Thursday’s inaugural game. As promised, the quality of football was high in the Las Vegas Locomotives’ 30-17 victory over the California Redwoods at Sam Boyd Stadium. Las Vegas quarterback J.P. Losman, the UFL’s m...

Hundreds of collector cars will be on auction this week in Las Vegas, but none is generating more buzz than the 1961 Ol’ Yaller VIII sports car that Elvis Presley drove in the movie “Viva Las Vegas.” The car will be sold to the highest bidder at the 2nd annual Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auc...

The weekend gets an early start of celebrity gazing today with an appearances at International Vision Expo and Conference by retired boxer Mike Tyson and socialite actress author Paris Hilton. And a tattoo festival tonight at Mandalay Bay brings in some tatted celebrities that include...

Metro Police today are asking for the public's help in finding a man caught on videotape during a robbery last week at a Las Vegas Strip casino. The man walked into the high limit slot counter about 3:05 a.m. Friday and demanded money from the clerk, police said. The man then left the casino with a...

For an ad man with an ounce of imagination, Las Vegas is rich with sales material — cheering gamblers, sexy nightclubs, celebrity-chef restaurants, haute couture boutiques and stunning stage productions. But none of these would be highlighted in Las Vegas’ most successful advertisin...

Bob Stupak, a Las Vegas legend who called himself the Polish Maverick, died today at Desert Springs Hospital after a long illness. He was 67. After an unconventional boyhood in Pittsburgh he came to Las Vegas, where he survived a motorcycle crash and sparred with gaming regulators. He event...

If Mike Skinner doesn’t have an ownership stake in Las Vegas Motor Speedway, a win this weekend would certainly have him thinking about one. The defending champion of the Las Vegas 350, Skinner has enjoyed a lot of success in his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career at the track.

Dealers negotiating a union contract with the Caesars Palace hotel-casino for almost two years are planning to protest outside the Las Vegas Strip resort.

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Oregon State’s football pipeline to Las Vegas has dried up like an ice cube on the Strip in the middle of summer. When the Beavers visit Sam Boyd Stadium to play UNLV tonight, they will have nobody from Las Vegas on their roster.

The Tropicana hotel-casino in Las Vegas faces a lawsuit claiming its security officers have not been paid required overtime wages.

The amateur mixed marital arts scene in Las Vegas has plenty of competition with top promotion Tuff-N-Uff mixing it up with a handful of other organizations, but Mark Birnbaum thinks there is room to squeeze one more fighting company into Sin City. And Birnbaum, the owner of two Rapid Reha...

Retired Las Vegas gambling executive Mike Ensign is no longer involved in an attempt to build a casino south of Wichita, the Kansas Lottery's executive director said Tuesday. Ensign's involvement in a previous proposal for a Lottery-owned casino in Sumner County in south-central Kans...

Testimony has begun in the death penalty trial of two men charged in a fatal bombing at a Las Vegas Strip resort in 2007. Luxor security guard Scott Casey testified he was in the parking garage of the hotel-casino when he heard a "loud boom" and felt vibrations from the level above him on May 7,...

Officials have destroyed 2,475 marijuana plants in a remote area of the White Mountains northwest of Las Vegas, authorities said. Esmeralda County Sheriff Ken Elgan asked the state Department of Public Safety's Investigation Division to help destroy the plants on Aug. 7, authorities s...

Nestled among the homes of casino owner Phil Ruffin, the Sultan of Brunei and entertainer Wayne Newton is a 10-acre compound that pop singer Michael Jackson was planning to call home. Actually, he was planning to call the property at 7000 Tomiyasu Lane -- owned by former casino mogul Gary P...

The dispute over use of the "Tropicana" name by the Tropicana hotel-casino in Las Vegas is heating up, with the property's former parent company filing a counterclaim to the Las Vegas hotel's lawsuit. The Las Vegas Tropicana, having emerged as a standalone company from Tropicana Entert...

Denver Broncos player LaMont Jordan was sued by the Mirage hotel-casino in Las Vegas Thursday over allegations Jordan owes the casino $20,000 in gambling debts.http://www.lasvegassun.com/admin/news/stories/add/#

A lawsuit has been filed over a dispute among developers of the CatHouse restaurant and lounge in Las Vegas. Seth Yudof and his company, Creative Eyes LLC, on Thursday filed suit in Clark County District Court against companies and individuals involved in the CatHouse at the Luxor hotel-...

MGM Mirage's Las Vegas customers spent considerably less in the second quarter, a decline contributing to a quarterly loss by the hotel-casino operator. With the recession reducing travel and discretionary spending worldwide, MGM Mirage responded in the quarter with lower room rate...

Founded in 1976, Station has some 13,400 employees in Southern Nevada and 10 major Las Vegas-area hotel-casino properties, including two that are 50 percent-owned with affiliates of the Greenspun family, owner of the Las Vegas Sun.

A California businessman has agreed to settle his gambling debts in Las Vegas. Kirk Vartanian, 40, appeared in Las Vegas Justice Court this morning on two charges of theft and two charges of passing bad checks. Prosecutors allege that in 2007, he passed 16 bad checks for gaming markers at tw...

The new owners of the Tropicana hotel-casino in Las Vegas moved Monday in two courts to assert their rights to use the "Tropicana" name without paying millions of dollars in licensing fees. In a lawsuit in Clark County District Court, and a filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware, Tropic...

The half-marathon will run entirely on Las Vegas Boulevard while the full race will make a loop heading west on Twain Avenue, south on Rainbow Boulevard, then back east on Hacienda Avenue before finishing at Mandalay Bay. "We wanted to give it a nice, ...

The program is part of Bravo's Wednesday night line up and will premiere this week at 10 pm In addition to Keller, Rick Moonen of Mandalay Bay's RM Seafood will also compete on the series, though it has not been announced when Moonen's episode will air ...

Former heavyweight champion Oliver McCall, left, and John Hopoate of Australia pose during a news conference at the Orleans hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Nevada May 20, 2009. The boxers will meet for a 12-round heavyweight bout at the Orleans Friday. ...

By John Katsilometes · March 27, 2009 · 2:22 PM But for a happily unclean casino executive, the Mint 400 Off-Road Race might not have survived its first year. It was 1968, night had fallen on the 115 buggies and bikes making roaring from the Mint Hotel ...

Las Vegas native Brendan Gaughan, the son of South Point casino owner Michael Gaughan, is shown in his garage as he prepares a backup car after hitting the wall during practice at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Friday. The best moment of NASCAR driver ...

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It’s the perfect time for Libby Lumpkin, executive director of the Las Vegas Art Museum, to talk about collecting. The Southern California minimalist exhibit — two-thirds of that exhibition was borrowed locally. These were very precious works of art and that work is really challenging f...

Despite the difficulty in making reeds in this climate, he says, Las Vegas presents ample opportunity to collaborate with composers, including UNLV’s composer in residence, Virko Baley, and to perform music that reflects the Southwest and Vegas (sounds of Zion National Park and casi...

There’s a lot of talk about Las Vegas as a city of the future, a place that has forgotten or simply paved over history. But a surprising number of Vegas inhabitants are living in the past — about 450 years in the past to be exact. While the valley is marked by regions known as Paradise, Spring Vall...

Valley's football team only had one victory in six games entering its contest with perennial power Las Vegas High last year. Las Vegas, which at time was the two-time defending state champion, hadn't lost to a Nevada school in three years.

What: 12th annual Bite of Las Vegas Attendees can receive $1 off the $8 admission price with a donation of canned food at the gate for the City Mission of Las Vegas. Additionally, $1 for every ticket sold will be donated to the City Mission to feed Las Vegas' hungry.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal won 19 first-place journalism awards and five advertising awards. The Nevada Appeal in Carson City won one journalism award and one advertising award. The Sun’s investigation into construction accidents on the Las Vegas Strip won three awards.

The funding includes $24.3 million for the state, $22.8 million for Clark County, $3.2 million for Henderson, $14.8 million for Las Vegas, and $6.8 million for North Las Vegas. Nevada has led the nation in the rate of foreclosure for 20 straight months, with one in every 91 properties in the proc...

A look back on its accomplishments and growth since its launch in 1966 offers perspective on the evolution of the Las Vegas Valley. “Las Vegas is no different from anywhere else,” says Lichtenstein, the ACLU of Nevada’s general counsel since 1996.

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“Less is a bore,” proclaimed the little book about Las Vegas architecture. It’s time for a new look at Las Vegas. What Venturi and Scott Brown did, Schwarz says, was take a look at Las Vegas and ask, “What does the rest of the world have to learn from what’s happened in Las Vegas?”

Today’s guest Where I Stand columnist is Jeremy Aguero, a principal analyst with the Las Vegas-based economic, fiscal and policy research firm Applied Analysis. It is no secret that Nevada is facing a remarkably challenging period. We are an economy in recession.

Ravel’s “Bolero” opens three of his concerts. Abilene, North Texas and the Las Vegas Philharmonic are all performing Dvorak’s Seventh Symphony in the first concert, and Abilene, Arkansas and Las Vegas all end the season with Beethoven’s Ninth.

“This is a growing area, there is a growing Jewish population here,” she said. “We heard great things about Las Vegas.” “Outside of New York and the Miami area, Las Vegas has the third largest Holocaust survivor population,” Friedman said.

The Las Vegas City Council took 1,000 votes in a recent one-year period on issues vital to the city’s future and important to citizens. Still, the Las Vegas numbers are on the high end of the scale, Svara said. “What’s unusual is the extent to which there is this unanimity here,” he said.