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Gaming revenues of $5.3 billion produced by California's 56 Indian casinos in 2004 equaled the gaming win reported by resorts on the Strip during the same calendar year, according to a national study of tribal-operated gaming being released today.

News Brief: A couple whose daughter died in the 2003 Paradise fire filed suit Monday against Harrah's and a band of Indians, alleging they refused to equip firefighters with the resources needed to protect the reservation.

News Brief: Amador County is trying to block a new casino from being built in Ione, California, that could result in a lot more traffic in San Joaquin County.

News Brief: Oakland City officials this morning declared victory in their fight against a proposed casino near Oakland International Airport, asserting that a North Bay Indian tribe silently abandoned the plan just months after promising it would bring the city millions in annual revenues.

News Brief: The man looking to build a casino resort at Flag City, California, comes from a tribe currently divided by a feud and unrecognized by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

News Brief: The Manzanita Indian band's proposal to build an off-reservation casino in Calexico got a big boost Tuesday, winning 56 percent approval in a ballot referendum in the Imperial County border city.

A California Supreme Court decision allowing a class action lawsuit that alleges false advertising by Nevada casinos to proceed in a Los Angeles courtroom shouldn't lead to a rash of legal filings, gaming attorneys said Tuesday.

News Brief: The N9NE Group, a company that ran restaurants, a nightclub and a bar inside the Morongo Casino Resort is claiming the Morongo Band of Mission Indians locked out its employees and forcibly closed the establishments in violation of its lease.

News Brief: Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., and other Internet search engines lost a bid to dismiss a lawsuit filed by two gamblers over advertisements promoting online casinos.

News Brief: The East Bay took center stage Monday in a brewing political debate over American Indian tribes pushing for casinos in prime gambling markets, and whether local communities should have the power to stop them.

News Brief: Sonoma County Sheriff Bill Cogbill wants $700,000 to increase patrols in northern Sonoma County, citing increased calls for service to River Rock Casino, the county's first Indian gaming hall.

News Brief: Merced, California, could become a gateway to gambling with two plans to bring American Indian casinos to cities just south and west of the city.

News Brief: A shake up due to the N9NE Group pulling out of the Morongo Casino Resort and Spa earlier this week is starting to settle down.

News Brief: A proposed Manzanita tribal casino in Calexico, California, has many supporters.

News Brief: The Las Vegas-based group operating the nightclub and restaurants at Morongo Casino Resort Spa closed operations Wednesday and began negotiations to sell their properties to the Morongo Band of Mission Indians.

California will roll out the red carpet for the Mega Million game's arrival when tickets go on sale statewide on Wednesday, June 22.

News Brief: The Bureau of Indian Affairs wants to know what issues to examine in the environmental impact statement for the proposed Enterprise Rancheria hotel-casino in Yuba County.

News Brief: Every car that's valet parked at the Pechanga Resort & Casino is automatically photographed from six angles and the name of the valet is electronically recorded.

News Brief: High rollers are enjoying the Pechanga Resort and Casino’s VIP lounge where they can feed C-notes into a $100-per-pull slot machine and the enjoy the lounge’s luxurious décor.

News Brief: Governor Schwarzenegger’s proclamation that he would not allow any casinos to be built in ‘urbanized areas’ will not interfere with the proposed casino in Hesperia, according to the dominant tribal council of the Timbisha Shoshone.