Las Vegas Travel News 12/20/2010

Though every new Las Vegas hotel is impressive in its own right, sometimes they all begin to blend together. What makes a new one special?

The Cloud Nine balloon, which recently returned to the Strip in September after being grounded for nearly a year, has closed for good.

Details on which hotels are shooting off fireworks for New Year's Eve as well as events on Fremont Street.

The Cosmopolitan is open! Check out the waiting crowd!

Fleur has reopened! According to this review, it sounds like the atmosphere is a bit lackluster but the food is fantastic.

American Idol will visit Las Vegas this season. Stay tuned to watch the singers belt out tunes by the Beatles on the stage for LOVE.

A new solar energy plant might be built near Las Vegas, which would provide 60,000 homes with power. It's about time we start harvesting our sunlight!

This is insane! Someone robbed the Bellagio and made out with $1.5 million in gambling chips! There is so much security … I'm impressed he got away!

Here's a nice feel-good Las Vegas story for you: A local 8-year-old girl who has autism just received her black belt in taekwondo.

Celine Dion is back! Her show starts up in the spring of 2011.