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Olympia Gaming will build a casino resort and spa as part of The Legends at Sparks Marina outdoor shopping and entertainment destination development.

Public action at this year's 45-event World Series of Poker begins today with a three-day No-Limit Hold'em event at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino.

Nevada Gold & Casinos, Inc. reports that the New York State Lottery has approved a license to operate 750 video gaming machines at Tioga Downs Raceway.

A selection of news and views from inside the industry this week.

Palms owner George Maloof is bullish that the Playboy brand will make a splash in Las Vegas when he opens the Playboy Club atop his new hotel tower at the end of September.

News Brief: The North Dakota attorney general's office cannot stop the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa from pursuing a casino with electronic bingo, even if the machines bear a

News Brief: The arrival of casinos in Pittsburgh may be good for the local seniors since gambling gets them out of the house and keeps their minds sharp, according to social scientists said.

News Brief: Iowa's new riverboat casinos have plenty of glitz and gambling, but they don't have any rivers.

Executives with the two major poker franchises scoff say the best years are yet to come for a game growing in viewership and, more significantly, participants.

News Brief: The Jamul tribe's proposed high-rise casino and hotel is now planned to be built in two phases, the first of which will be less than half the height of the towering 30-story building once suggested, officials say.

News Brief: As of August 15, Illinois' casinos will start carding every customer who appears to be age 30 or younger.

ews Brief: A new indoor smoking ban that became law late last month across the Niagara River in Ontario now makes the Seneca casino the only gambling hall in Niagara Falls that allows patrons to light up.

he Venetian Resort Hotel Casino has once again raised the stakes on the Las Vegas Strip with the opening of a new groundbreaking production of Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera."

No ticket matched all six numbers to win the estimated $16 million jackpot. That means the jackpot for the Tuesday, June 27, 2006 Mega Millions drawing grows to an estimated $23 million.

ith more than 10,000 cubic yards of concrete delivered by convoy, MGM Mirage set the foundation today for the transformation of the Las Vegas Strip.

Harrah's Entertainment said today that the previously announced sale of the Reno Hilton hotel-casino to Grand Sierra Resort Corp., and certain gaming assets to an affiliate of the Navegante Group, has closed.

News Brief: Legislation to give two Wisconsin-based Indian tribes casinos in the Catskills and settle land claim lawsuits the tribes have against New York, died in the Legislatur

News Brief: Penn National Gaming has fired its general manager at Argosy Riverside Casino and replaced him with a Kansas City market veteran.

News Brief: Spending by gamblers in Kansas City and elsewhere flattened out in May.

News Brief: The Auburn council voted 3-2 to pass a resolution that the city would be the “host community” for a Seneca-Cayuga Tribe of Oklahoma casino.