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Beginning this month, Spa Resort Casino in Palm Springs is offering free lessons on the hottest poker game around: Texas Hold ‘Em.

Megaresort developments have become the norm on the Strip, and those multibillion-dollar investments have been dwarfed by recent casino industry mergers and acquisitions.

Almost two weeks after the Sahara was seemingly given a new lease on life, demolition crews are preparing to blast away the last remnant of the Stardust.

ews Brief: The Meadowlands will discontinue racing on Wednesday nights for the following eight weeks.

News Brief: California’s education budget could lose more than $100 million dollars because of slumping California State Lottery sales, according to state officials.

News Brief: The new Mount Airy Resort and Casino will have quite a different look than from its legendary predecessor.

News Brief: Texas horse breeders believe that video lottery terminals can help the state’s struggle horse racing industry.

News Brief: A Connecticut committee will hold a public hearing on bills aimed at increasing the amount that cities and towns receive from the state’s tribal casinos.

News Brief: The New Mexico Senate listened to four hours of testimony Sunday on revising the tribal-state agreements governing gambling.

News Brief: No one seems to know, or wants to say, who is spending thousands of dollars to poll Clark County, Washington, residents for their views on the Cowlitz Tribe's casino project.

News Brief: The Northern Arapaho Tribe's Wind River Casino has discontinued offering bingo.

News Brief: Kenosha officials are requesting a personal meeting U.S. Department of Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne after the U.S. Bureau for Indian Affairs sent a letter, vowing more scrutiny over proposals for off-reservation casinos.

DLJ Merchant Banking Partners and Morgans Hotel Group Co. report a large-scale expansion and renovation project for the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

January's statewide gaming win fell almost 2.1 percent when compared with what casinos collected from gamblers in the same month a year ago.

Powerball will move to an estimated $165 million for Wednesday's draw as the grand prize was not hit Saturday evening.

In a week that saw Mega Millions break the record for the largest jackpot ever in North America, Mega Millions is on the move once again.

Las Vegas is in the crosshairs of a powerful corporate boss who wants to turn Sin City into a family-themed destination, or at least that's the plot of a new video game based on that scenario.

It was the night owl who took home the cash overnight as the very first Paradise Jackpot winner at Spa Resort Casino in Palm Springs.

The days where casino chips were the coin of the realm, used to settle debts between friends, buy groceries and pay for haircuts have passed.

News Brief: A Washington state-tribal compact allowing tribes to own 8,100 more electronic-style slot machines is expected to win approval today from the state Gambling Commission.