News - Page 1753

News Brief: A Contra Costa County Superior Court judge has ruled that the city of Richmond, California, would have to delay its plan to approve the sale of Point Molate to a casino developer for an anticipated $50 million.

In a step that could literally move the earth, an aggressively growing international heavy equipment supplier will soon dig into Southern Nevada's booming construction market.

Gaming stocks took another dive in July, suffering through their second month in a row of summer doldrums, analysts said Tuesday.

News Brief: When they organized a $1 million fund-raiser for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gavin and Joe Maloof's family casino business was negotiating a deal that would net them millions from running a tribal megacasino.

Barney Vinson: The Strip oozed money and class. Downtown oozed something else.

Harrah's Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino has remodeled a centrally located bar into an upscale "I-Bar Ultra Lounge."

The latest offering to spread across the Strip isn't as sexy as a nightclub or a swanky lounge but may become just as important to Las Vegas' image as an upscale resort destination. And it costs only about $15 per day.

News Brief: Chris Moneymaker’s 2003 World Series of Poker win, along with the popularity of the ‘World Poker Tour’ TV show, have sparked a boom for online poker rooms.

News Brief: The average total daily handle at the recently concluded Pimlico Race Course summer race meet declined 10.3% compared with last year’s summer meet at Laurel Park with betting on live racing dropping 5.5%.

All N Poker is going all in with the national introduction of its line of No-Limit Texas Hold "Em poker clothing and accessories.

Two companies based in the York area, have pledged to purchase Pennsylvania Lottery instant tickets for employees in support of the Lottery's Golden Opportunities Employee Rewards Program.

News Brief: Six years ago, most of the roads at the Potawatomi reservation north of Topeka were either dirt or gravel. What a difference a casino makes

News Brief: Village officials of Put-In-Bay on South Bass Island are trying to draw back tourists with gambling events.

Such was the response from attendees at this year's autumn Men's Apparel Guild in California trade show, which for the first time in six years is taking place entirely under one Las Vegas roof.

News Brief: Trading in his FBI badge for an appointment to the new Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board, Kenneth T. McCabe said his top priority is ensuring the ‘integrity of the board is above reproach’.

News Brief: A Catholic priest who took more than $200,000 from his church to support his gambling habit says he wants his former congregation to know he’s sorry.

Harrah's Entertainment signed an agreement with Colony Capital on Friday to sell four key properties involved in its $9.4 billion buyout of Caesars Entertainment, a move that could speed the regulatory process for the merger, insiders and experts said Monday.

News Brief: Work has begun on a 70-room hotel at the Lucky Eagle Casino in Rochester, south of Olympia, one of a number of tribal casino expansion projects in the South Sound.

Following a year and a half of hefty price increases, rates for rooms on the Strip booked three weeks in advance stayed relatively flat this summer.

Caesars Entertainment Inc. has eliminated 27 craps supervisor jobs at its Caesars Palace resort, saying those positions aren't needed to run the games effectively.