Last month I attended the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Vegas. I had a list of all the tech I wanted to see, talk to someone about, or try for myself, and I spent two days speed-walking between buildings and booths, scrambling to cram it all in: a 360-degree hologram, an exosuit, a flying taxi, haptic gloves—I didn’t want to miss any of it. By the end of each day, my legs and feet ached—and I hadn’t come close to seeing everything I wanted to. I’m not a step-counter, but other attendees claimed to be walking several thousand steps more than their daily averages.

A Cirque du Soleil performer was in stable condition after falling from the "Wheel of Death" during a Las Vegas performance.

Forget Britney Spears and Cirque du Soleil. For many gamblers, the hottest attraction in Sin City is an outdated three-reel slot machine that hasn't produced a jackpot in nearly two decades. It is called the Lion's Share, and in this city with no shortage of losing bets, the 20-year-old slot has attracted a legion of ever-hopeful devotees on the floor of the MGM Grand, the Strip's second-biggest casino.

Frank Cullotta, a former mob hitman, has found a new avenue for his knowledge: showing tourists in Las Vegas around old mafia haunts

In 2011, the Justice Department targeted online-poker operators for violating the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. Since then, many guileless amateurs, known to poker pros as “fish,” have been moving back to casinos. 

Las Vegas saw more visitors in March than in any other month in its history, thanks to college basketball tournaments, car races and conventions. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority reported Tuesday that 3.7 million people visited the city last month, up 4.3 percent from March 2013.

Two shooters reportedly killed three people, including two police officers, before committing suicide during a shooting spree in Las Vegas today.

In the 1990s, Las Vegas began building storm-drainage tunnels to protect the tourist destination from raging flash floods. The plan was to construct 1,000 miles of tunnels within 20 or 25 years. Today, the tunnels house the city’s homeless population.

In February, an attack ad titled "Don’t Let the Games Begin" started popping up in online gambling forums. The ad opens on two shadows shaking hands in a dark city alley. We see a distraught mother at her laptop, a young child at a computer in a dim bedroom, police cars with sirens. A narrator with a scaly voice comes on. "An established al-Qaeda poker network could extract enough untraceable money from the United States in just a few days to fund several 9/11-sized attacks," he says.

When FedEx was Federal Express, a struggling, young company with only $5,000 left in the bank, founder Fred Smith boarded a plane for Vegas.

Casino operators are changing blackjack payouts to give the house an even greater advantage. Is this a sign that Vegas is on its way back from the recession, or that the Strip’s biggest players are trying to squeeze some more cash out of visitors before the well runs dry?

Las Vegas is the gambling capital of the United States. It is home to, per About.com, about 200,000 slot machines across about 1,700 licensed gambling locations. Those "licensed gambling locations" aren't necessarily "casinos," though -- you can find slot machine at the airport, for example, as well as random other places throughout the area. If you really want to gamble in Vegas, it's pretty easy to find someone who will take your money. It can be a very lucrative business.

John Kane was on a hell of a winning streak. On July 3, 2009, he walked alone into the high-limit room at the Silverton Casino in Las Vegas and sat down at a video poker machine called the Game King. Six minutes later the purple light on the top of the machine flashed, signaling a $4,300 jackpot.

In an angry final message to Review-Journal, the man who shot himself at an M Resort buffet on Easter Sunday blamed his suicide on depression after he won free meals for life but was banned for harassing women who work there.

The billionaire’s Las Vegas trial heard claims that his Macao casino had organised crime links but the 81-year-old was more interested in telling lawyers’ their job

Next year, a new tunnel under Lake Mead will begin delivering water to Las Vegas. The project is massive, expensive, politically fraught—and a harbinger of things to come.

In the world of right-wing extremism, how do you tell who is dangerous? By Ashley Powers.

A fire broke out at a luxury hotel on the Las Vegas Strip on Saturday.

Dierks Bentley has announced plans to open a Whiskey Row restaurant in Las Vegas, on the Strip. The eatery, which will open in July of 2016 on the Las Vegas Strip, is part of a new, bustling retail and dining district, the Park, that will span eight acres.

Seven people injured as London-bound Boeing 777 suffers ‘catastrophic engine failure’, with smoke and flames coming from fuselage