Space is limited — and expensive — for anyone wanting to stay at a casino-hotel on the Las Vegas Strip the night of the Tropicana implosion. The Tropicana Las Vegas will be imploded at 2:30 a.m. on ...

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 Beach-themed resort plan to provide 9 acres of ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Sin City blew a kiss goodbye to the Tropicana before first light Wednesday in an elaborate implosion that reduced to rubble the last true mob building on the Las Vegas Strip. The ...

LAS VEGAS — In the 1971 film “Diamonds are Forever,” James Bond stays in a swanky suite at the Tropicana Las Vegas. “I hear that the Hotel Tropicana is quite comfortable,” Agent 007 says. It was the ...

Meanwhile, Local 54 leaders were at odds with Tropicana's then-owner, Columbia Sussex Corp., over the laying off of 15 percent of the casino's work force. Employees were worried about job security.

From its lavish opening in 1957 on a Las Vegas Boulevard surrounded by wide-open desert, to its sleepier years amid a boom in megaresorts, the Tropicana Las Vegas has been a familiar landmark home to ...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — In the 1971 film “Diamonds are Forever,” James Bond stays in a swanky suite at the Tropicana Las Vegas. “I hear that the Hotel Tropicana is quite comfortable,” Agent 007 says. It was ...