The announcement will darken roughly 1,700 hotel rooms, thinning competition in a town of 150,000 rooms — widely considered too many. But it also deals a psychological blow to Las Vegas, where a ...

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A fascination with Las Vegas memorabilia has drawn about 1,500 members to the Casino Collectibles Association, some of whom spend thousands on vintage chips from casinos. The Sahara hotel in Las ...

The Sahara Hotel & Casino, which dates to the days of Frank Sinatra’s “Rat Pack” and has featured the likes of Mae West and Marlene Dietrich in its showrooms, will close May 16. Hotel ...

A fire that started on the roof of the Hotel Sahara's casino early yesterday afternoon sent gamblers out into the street and caused an estimated $1 million in damage before it was stopped.

LAS VEGAS — The venerable Sahara hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip, where Elvis Presley stayed while filming “Viva Las Vegas” and the Beatles stayed when they performed in Sin City, dealt ...

Paul Hobson, general manager for the Sahara Las Vegas hotel-casino, poses outside of the Sahara Las Vegas during a rebranding event outside of the hotel in Las Vegas, Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019.

The Las Vegas Strip will soon have one less poker room. The Sahara, located at the far north end of the Strip, announced last week that its seven-table room would be shut down Nov. 16 to make room ...

The Sahara Hotel & Casino, among a few Las Vegas Strip resorts left from the Rat Pack era, is closing nearly six decades after dealing its first hand.