Nevada gaming officials put in place sweeping new regulations for nightclubs this week, increasing their oversight of a crucial but sometimes risky component of business at Las Vegas casino-resorts.

It wasn’t too long ago that the Las Vegas Strip resembled a red-hot craps table right after the dice came up seven, sweeping all the chips to the house. When the financial crisis shut off capital, billions of dollars wagered on casino resort and high-rise condominium developments vanished from the Strip.

The tie between sports media and cultural memory is so thick, mention an inning in a post-season baseball game from any decade and it sets a place and time. At UNLV’s Center for Gaming Research, Alex Kupfer is exploring the idea through materials related to televised World Series of Poker tournaments at the Horseshoe Casino. Kupfer is the first of five Eadington Fellows for the 2015-16 year. His colloquium talk, “The Biggest Game on TV: Benny Binion, the WSOP, and the Nostalgic Construction of Poker’s Past,” takes place November 16 at 3 p.m. in Lied Library’s Goldfield Room. –Kristen Peterson

For much of the past half century, Reno moved in lock step with its glamorous big sister, Las Vegas, their fortunes rising and falling with their mainstay industry, gambling.

Caesars Palace, which turns 50 years old next year, is spending almost four times the original cost to build the Strip resort in order to remodel the property's first hotel tower.

Sam Nazarian appears to be abandoning his dream of running a thriving Las Vegas casino.

Who will win the Nobel Prize in literature this year? That's a topic some people — largely Europeans — are willing to wager on. The legality of doing so in America is murky at best, but a couple foreign bookmakers are taking bets, including Ladbrokes in the United Kingdom, and Unibet Group, which is incorporated in Malta.

PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker are expected to give a much-needed jolt to New Jersey's fledgling Internet gambling market, but observers say the market needs to expand to other jurisdictions in order to truly thrive.

PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker are expected to give a much-needed jolt to New Jersey's fledgling Internet gambling market, but observers say the market needs to expand to other jurisdictions in order to truly thrive.

Las Vegas dealers who picketed Tuesday morning outside the Global Gaming Expo say they can handle the occasional drunken customer or angry gambler losing bets.

The Horseshoe Cleveland casino and the Rocksino in Northfield are among Ohio's top gambling venues, but their revenues lag far behind casinos in Detroit and Pittsburgh.

The first week of the 2015-2016 NFL season was not a good one for Nevada’s sports books, as one sports book manager told ESPN that he couldn’t “remember a worse opening Sunday.”