During the past decade, Penn National Gaming was named as a potential buyer of nearly every Strip resort that was for sale or rumored to be on the market.

Although the Caesars Entertainment bankruptcy is playing out in a Chicago court far from Nevada, it’s still closely connected to Las Vegas, including through one local academic involved in the case.

Brace yourself, Nevada. If nasty commercials and mailboxes stuffed with campaign fliers incite annoyance, it will get a whole lot worse if a bill making its way through the Legislature becomes law.

Jeb Bush has his eyes on Nevada -- a state that is aiming to become a bigger player in presidential politics.

A few years ago, Wired theorized that bad carpeting is good for gambling. "That's a theory backed up by Dave Schwartz, Director of the Center for Gaming Research, at the University of Nevada Las Vegas," Pete Brook wrote at the time. "Schwartz theorizes that 'casino carpet is known as an exercise in deliberate bad taste that somehow encourages people to gamble.'"

DOJ lawyers: Before telling a court free speech doesn’t apply to a group of people in the US, check with your boss

Once an afterthought, Latino voters have moved to the center of the 2016 presidential campaign, the object of early and unprecedented courtship by candidates on both sides.

What are the odds that voters approve a casino at the Brockton Fairgrounds?