Nevada's biggest casinos combined to turn a profit in fiscal 2016 for the first time in eight years, but it wasn't due to gambling winnings, according to an annual report by state regulators.

Internet gambling helped Atlantic City's casinos post their first revenue increase in a decade.

Lucky Dragon will be the Strip’s first new-from-the-ground-up casino since 2010 when it opens on December 3. It’s also the Strip’s first casino designed from scratch for Asian customers, with a particular eye on Chinese players. Fittingly, it’s financed largely from Asia through the U.S. government’s EB-5 program that offers U.S. residency to investors that pony up $500,000 for eligible projects. But unlike most casinos on the Strip looking for Asian customers, Lucky Dragon isn’t targeting visitors from Asia. Its primary market is Asians already living in North America.

n a climate-controlled storage room at the heart of UNLV’s Lied Library, a historic collection of sympathy and solidarity fills 491 boxes.

The app has more than 7.5 million users in the United States and it's earning an estimated $1.6 million a day and has hundreds of people walking around parks and city streets.

In 1950, America was waking up to the problem of organized crime. U.S. Attorney General J. Howard McGrath convened a conference, primarily of big-city mayors, to discuss the root causes of the rackets (the word “mafia” had not yet entered the popular lexicon). Gambling, he said, was a fundamental nuisance in a country that was fundamentally opposed to the practice.

We knew it was coming. It was in January of this year we heard the first reports that certain hotel-casinos on the Las Vegas Strip were going to begin what was described then as a "modest parking fee program for valet and self-parking."

David Schwartz gave a tour of the Center for Gaming Research at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He showed items from the university archives' collection related to the history of gambling in Las Vegas and shared sotries of how the industry evolved over time.