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News Brief: The Pauma Indian band and Connecticut's Mashantucket Pequot tribe, operator of the world's largest casino, Foxwoods, are to announce today a development partnership t

News Brief: An California Assembly committee has rejected a bid by two Indian tribes with reservations far from Barstow to open casinos in that economically depressed town after representatives from several Inland gaming tribes testified against the proposal.

News Brief: A bill to permit horse tracks to install nearly 13,000 video gambling machines stalled Monday when a key legislator blocked a hearing set for today.

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.

PokerTek, Inc. reports that Hollywood Park Casino, one of the three largest card clubs in California, has agreed to install an initial six PokerPro tables for a 90 day trial peri

News Brief: The winner of a recent $34 million jackpot from the Mega Millions California Lottery has stepped forward to collect his prize.

News Brief: A new legal wrangle unfolded Tuesday in a Placer County Superior Court harassment and discrimination case filed by seven former female Thunder Valley Casino employees.

News Brief: Within just five years, virtually everything has changed for the Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk, thanks largely to the Black Oak Casino.

American Indian casinos enjoyed a 15.6 percent increase in gaming revenue nationally during 2005, fueled by the ever-booming gambling market in California.

News Brief: One year after California joined the multistate Mega Millions lottery game, sales have fallen short of expectations, and the new game has hurt sales of the existing Sup

News Brief: Bay 101 wants San Jose to refund $1.7 million in allegedly illegal fees it's taken from the card club over the last two years, according to a lawsuit the casino filed.

News Brief: Despite the thumping Measure H received at the polls, the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe will continue to try build a casino here, the tribal chairman Charles F. Wood said Thursday.

With gas prices soaring, the Normandie Casino has introduced a new and exciting game that, Pure 21 Blackjack, that is being played by major Las Vegas Casinos.

Tribal casinos in Barstow, Calif., have taken another step toward gaining a footing about 120 miles west of the Nevada border

ews Brief: An East Bay city staunchly defended its tribal card room in a letter sent Tuesday to a U.S. senator who's trying to shut it down, predicting fiscal doom should that happen and offering the tribe's written vow not to expand.

More than 80 percent of Barstow voters shot down a ballot measure Tuesday that could have blocked the Big Lagoon/Los Coyotes casino resort from being developed in Barstow.

ews Brief: A Sacramento Superior Court judge ruled late Tuesday that California's multi-state Mega Millions game is legal and authorized to operate in California.

Black Oak Casino and the Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk are pleased to announce their two-year commitment as presenting sponsor of the 2006 Northern California Open Championship.

News Brief: Gambling in California, fueled in large part by the expansion of Indian casinos, has grown into an industry worth more than $13 billion a year, according to a report released Wednesday by the state attorney general.

At the Pechanga Resort and Casino’s Celebrity Poker Challenge, celebrity players play a game of no limit Texas hold’em poker with a twist.