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News Brief: The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the UAW have each filed petitions with the labor board seeking to unionize Foxwoods Resort Casino's slot technicians, electronic bench technicians, field service technicians and senior field service technicians.

News Brief: River Rock Casino reported net revenues rose 6.7 percent last year to a record $139.4 million, driven by new marketing campaigns and upgrades to its slot machines, casino officials reported Monday.

News Brief: A bingo-expansion bill backed by the Catholic Church and other charities has been shelved in the face of stiff opposition from California's powerful gaming tribes.

News Brief: Arizona casinos are facing tougher odds as they try to avoid losses during the economic downturn.

Chet and Karla Cox's story shows what can happen when small-business people seek a Nevada gaming license.

Although he supports congressional efforts to roll back the Internet gambling ban, the vice president of a poker Web site on Monday said he is skeptical that will happen in the near future.

Progress on the Fontainebleau Las Vegas is proceeding, seemingly unfazed by the financial uncertainties and cost overruns that are plaguing projects such as the Cosmopolitan, Tropicana and the neighboring Crown Las Vegas.

The Nevada Supreme Court will conduct a hearing on July 1 to determine whether a petition to increase the gaming tax should go on the November ballot.

A recent Nevada Supreme Court ruling that said free meals provided to patrons by casinos are exempt from taxation has far-ranging and unintended results that could devastate the state's economy, the attorney general's office said Monday.

Federal officials are trying to determine whether Nevada officials mishandled an investigation of a sewer system accident that killed two men at The Orleans last year.

The Tropicana’s sister resort at Lake Tahoe, facing eviction for subpar performance, has agreed to pay $165 million to the landowner for permission to stay put for another three years.

The sinking economy, high gasoline prices, airline troubles and other downbeat financial news are causing casino customers to hang on to discretionary income.

With the U.S. dollar weakening against foreign currencies, international investors are snapping up many of the Strip's high-priced condos.

With most airlines about as appealing to investors as an in-flight movie, Las Vegas-based Allegiant Air continues to defy the industry's downward economic spiral.

News Brief: Warning of possible legal action, Donald Trump denounced a proposed smoking ban that would prevent gamblers from lighting up while playing the slot machines and gaming tables at Atlantic City's 11 casinos.

With Guggenheim Hermitage Museum closing next month, we are left with the Bellagio Gallery. And the question: What happened with the Guggenheim?

Donald Trump says that his new gold-clad condo and hotel tower is “defining luxury in Las Vegas” and those who were present at Friday's ribbon-cutting ceremony for the building got an up-close view as to why the real estate mogul can make that claim.

News Brief: In only seven months, Maryland voters will decide whether up to 15,000 slot machines will be legalized.

News Brief: New Hampshire and Rhode Island lawmakers, as they face steadily mounting financial woes, are scrounging for cash from an unexpected source: Massachusetts taxpayers.

News Brief: Coyote Valley tribal representatives dismissed a state commission's contentions that there are widespread software lapses in slot machines at the Mendocino County casino and six larger Indian gaming centers around the state.