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News Brief: The opening of the Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort, set for June 10, is expected to have long-ranging impact on the tourism and hospitality trades in both Southern Ontario and the Buffalo Niagara region.

A power outage paralyzed gambling operations at Bellagio on Easter Sunday, sending workers at the five-star hotel scrambling to accommodate more than 1,500 inconvenienced guests.

News Brief: Nebraska senators are scheduled to take final votes on casino gambling before they adjourn for the year Thursday.

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

Since no one correctly matched all six numbers in Wednesday's drawing the Powerball jackpot will grow to an estimated $57 million.

While visiting the Trump 29 Casino in California, Donald Trump beat one of the Apprentice Chickens who are trained to play tic-tac-toe as a promotional gimmick.

News Brief: The U.S. Supreme Court has refused without comment to consider a Placer County citizens group's challenge of Thunder Valley Casino.

News Brief: Governor Rendell has suggeested that his latest target date for getting slot machines legalized, the April 27 primary, will pass without action by Pennsylvania lawmakers.

News Brief: A federal judge is expected to rule within a week on a deal that would clear an obstacle to the construction of permanent casinos.

A trio of local casino operators has a tentative deal to buy and reopen the Castaways hotel-casino near downtown Las Vegas, prospective buyer Randy Miller said this morning.

he Nevada Gaming Control Board on Wednesday gave preliminary approval for the owner of a California real estate investment company to reopen the Regency Casino.

As one of the top destination resorts in the world, Las Vegas is on the radar screen of thousands of individuals and families who escape for the annual ritual of spring break.

Two major Las Vegas operators and a gaming analyst see the latest recommendations for gambling expansion in the UK as a positive for casino companies. Others aren’t so optimistic.

Profits at the major, publicly traded Las Vegas-based gaming companies jumped an estimated 28 percent in the first quarter of 2004, signaling further improvements in the local economy.

News Brief: Before the casino industry agreed to send $21.5 million a year in purse money to racetracks, it first got a commitment from state government to phase out one of the more expensive items from last year's $90 million tax increase.

News Brief: A Lake County board unanimously endorsed motions recommending roughly $17 million the county collects annually from casinos in the area be earmarked for property tax relief.

News Brief: Illinois Gaming Board Chairman Elzie Higginbottom said Wednesday that he has no intention of backing down from a decision to award a casino to Rosemont.

News Brief: A British man who has sold all his possessions, including his clothes, will stand in a rented tuxedo on Sunday and bet everything on a spin of the roulette wheel.

News Brief: As Nebraska senators close in on a casino proposal for the November ballot, leaders of the pro-gambling effort say an Omaha casino isn't a foregone conclusion.

News Brief: U.S. District Court Judge Julie Robinson denied the tribe's request for a temporary restraining order to prevent the shutting down of Wyandotte 7th Street Casino.