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Aristocrat Technologies has recently announced that the OASIS 360 Casino Management System has been selected for the M Resort, Spa and Casino, a $1 billion resort scheduled to be completed in the spring of 2009 on South Las Vegas Boulevard.

A Washington County man who won $1 million in the Pennsylvania Lottery's July 5 Millionaire Raffle picked up his winnings today.

MyOhioNow.com will make an announcement regarding the submission of signatures to the Ohio Secretary of State that will place an initiative on the November 4th ballot for a casino/resort in Ohio.

Echelon's plight, combined with Tuesday's revelation of more than $3 billion in financing hurdles for MGM Mirage's CityCenter, threw off analyst projections of a local housing recovery set for mid-2009.

The union campaigns were both conceived several years ago, when Las Vegas and other Western cities were in the midst of a housing boom.

The August edition of "Native American Casino Magazine" placed the Circling Raven Golf Club in Idaho at the very top of its Top 20 tribal golf course list.

A Japanese tourist hit it big on the slots at Agua Caliente Casino • Resort • Spa in Rancho Mirage, taking home a $55,000 Paradise Jackpot just hours after stepping off an airplane from his native Japan.

News Brief: Faced with flagging attendance, the Southeastern Massachusetts Regional Task Force on Casino Impacts is looking to re-energize and, possibly, redefine itself.

News Brief: Democrats in the Washington State House and Senate joined forces to defend Gov. Chris Gregoire's controversial decision to allow a big expansion of tribal gambling while abandoning a provision that would have provided hundreds of millions of dollars in new revenue for the state.

News Brief: Two Riverside County tribes — the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians and Morongo Band of Mission Indians — on Thursday shed light on the revenue checks that were just relayed to the state.

News Brief: Greektown Casino majority owner, the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, is laying off 2% of its 2,000-member workforce as the tribe struggles with a $15-million deficit.

News Brief: Robert Winter, Navajo Nation Gaming Enterprise CEO, say he is eliminating 40 percent of planned jobs at the Fire Rock Casino due to the expected loss of business stemming from last week's council vote to ban smoking in public places on the reservation.

News Brief: New figures show that the amount of profits Arizona Indian tribes are sharing with the state was just $26 million in the second quarter of this year, down more than $2 million from the same period a year earlier.

Fantasy Spring Resort's The Wet Spot Pool Party, the hottest and hippest new spot to see and be seen in the desert, announces its all new bartender competition.

Parking fees at McCarran International Airport -- along with charges for cabs, limousines and buses -- are about to go up, as much as 50 percent in some cases.

Shuffle Master, Inc. reports that the progressive jackpot on its Fortune Pai Gow Poker Progressive table game hit twice during July.

Fantasy Springs Resort Casino has the solution to paying high prices at the gas pump by offering its guests the chance to win free Shell gas for an entire year.

The Price is Right delivers big for a pair of Jackpotjoy players while a foul odor has one poker room wishing another player was playing online.

Gov. Jim Gibbons wants to continue the state’s $142 million battle with casinos over “comped” meals.

News Brief: Arizona tribal casinos contributions to the state from tribal gaming operations dropped 7.5 percent in the past three months compared with a year ago, according to the Arizona Department of Gaming.