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In celebration of their 20th Anniversary, San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino undertook a magnificent feat Friday night as they set a new Guinness World Record for "Largest Bingo House".

News Brief: An Upper Lake tribe will be before the Lakeport Board of Supervisors today to discuss an agreement with the county that will manage the impacts that their proposed casino might have on the community.

Members of tribal governments of the California Nations Indian Gaming Association have met with Governor Schwarzenegger.

News Brief: An assembly governmental organization committee has voted to reject the tribal gambling compacts Schwarzenegger negotiated last year for the Barstow development.

nternational News Brief: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is threatening to try to shut down six casinos in a dispute over how their slot machine numbers are tallied.

A California legislative committee late Wednesday dealt a blow to the prospects of side-by-side tribal casinos opening in Barstow, but proponents of the venture some 120 miles

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: 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.