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News Brief: The 18-town coalition studying casino impacts is still not prepared to object to the billion-dollar Mashpee Wampanoag project in Middleboro, Massachusetts.

News Brief: State Senator William Larkin, who chairs the Senate Gaming and Racing Committee, says the new plans to redevelop the former Concord Hotel are a good idea.

News Brief: The union attempting to organize security guards at the Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort withdrew its petitions before the vote was to take place.

News Brief: Legislation designating sites in Port Huron and Romulus for Indian casinos has split opinions within the Michigan congressional delegation.

With conventions attracting about 6.2 million people to Las Vegas in 2007, there is opportunity to increase the off-Strip niche's share of the pie, said Chuck Schwartz, chairman of Convexx, a convention production company in Las Vegas.

In celebration of 'the hardest working man in show business' arriving in Uncasville, Connecticut, Mohegan Sun threw Regis Philbin a much deserved welcoming party.

In a Coachella Valley first, Agua Caliente Casino in Rancho Mirage has created its very own house band to play at its eclectic live music venue “The Lounge.”

The legendary singer/songwriter/composer, Billy Joel will perform at Mohegan Sun Arena in an exclusive New England appearance on Friday, May 23rd at 8:00pm.

Four of the country's most respected gaming-industry analysts from Wall Street will share their candid views at the 4th annual Pennsylvania Gaming Congress & Mid-Atlantic Racing Forum.

Winnersedgeinfo.com has launched an experiment to prove that statistics can predict lottery jackpots.

Nevada regulators are now taking another look at cell phone prohibition inside sports books because critics see it as outdated in a technological age.

Nevada casinos are moving toward new technology that will allow managers to change the look, price and take of slot machines from a central computer.

Jeff Simpson on why now is the time for all the Chicken Littles to come out of the coop and start warning Las Vegans about the falling sky.

A Strip executive now doubts even half as many of the boasted 40,000 new hotel rooms will be built, with the result that tens of thousands of expected new jobs won’t be created.

News Brief: Governor Deval Patrick is drawing a mixed reaction in the region as he looks to municipal leaders statewide to build support for his casino plan.

News Brief: Empire Resorts and the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe have enlisted a third-party arbitrator.

MGM Mirage reports that the Monte Carlo Hotel reopened as scheduled today and welcomed guests into the resort's casino, hotel tower, restaurants, showroom and meeting facilities.

Leaders of CIM Group, the development company that last year bought into the shuttered Lady Luck, are in talks with the city of Las Vegas to put money toward a proposed mob museum on Stewart Avenue at Third Street.

District Judge Bill Maddox threw out two petitions Friday that would have let Nevada voters decide whether to triple the state's 6.75 percent gaming tax.

Has recession arrived? Answers in Nevada vary and consensus so far is rare.