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When the New Frontier was imploded in 2007, the spectacle featured a fireworks show, cheering onlookers and a chanted countdown to the resort’s destruction. Approaching 17…

“It was where all the celebrities wanted to be,” Marlene Pendleton recalled. “It was the ‘Tiffany of the Strip,’ they said.” The former showgirl, who joined…

The pending Tropicana closure will take out the third-oldest casino on the Strip – a place with a historic skyline that has a tendency to look…

The Tropicana will close its doors Tuesday, two days shy of the 67th anniversary of its opening. The current owners and operators of the 1,467-room South…

Las Vegas resident Kit Vega stood near the center of the action at the Tropicana on Saturday night, taking in her last moments at the property…

Pamela Coleman has been a bartender at the Tropicana for 37 years, but she still vividly remembers her interview. She came to the Miami Beach-themed property…

The Venetian will move and expand its poker room, hoping to “push the boundaries of modern poker forward,” resort officials said Wednesday. Resort officials will move…

Bally’s Corp. chairman Soo Kim said preliminary plans are to demolish the Tropicana this fall. In an email to the Las Vegas Review-Journal Thursday, Kim said…

The historic Western Hotel & Bingo Parlor is up for sale for an undisclosed price. The property closed in 2012 and is one of several key…

It seemed like giant ceremonial scissors got plenty of use on the Las Vegas Strip in recent years. Multibillion-dollar resort projects opened their doors to the…