California News - Page 144

News Brief: November ballot measure that would greatly expand Indian casino gambling received a boost Thursday from two taxpayer advocacy groups and opponents promptly countered with a taxpayer group of their own.

News Brief: When they organized a $1 million fundraiser for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in February, Gavin and Joe Maloof's family casino business was negotiating a deal that would net them millions from running what could be one of the world's largest casinos.

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.

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.

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.

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

News Brief: The Senate ratified four new tribal gambling agreements Friday, a day after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger withdrew a controversial proposal to build the state's first urban casino.

News Brief: The residents and city officials of San Pablo are mostly embracing the plans for the third-largest casino to built in their struggling city.

News Brief: California’s Campo band have been struggling with sewage and groundwater issues since building their casino in 2001 and the issues are not going away.

News Brief: Unable to quell broad bipartisan opposition, Governor Schwarzenegger has pulled back a controversial tribal gambling agreement that would have cleared the way for a large urban casino in the San Francisco Bay Area.

News Brief: Four of the five tribes that signed new gambling deals with California in June have started ordering hundreds of additional slot machines that could eventually bring the state more than $10 million a year.

News Brief: Several Senate Democrats said Wednesday they would not ratify Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's deal to create an Indian casino in San Pablo during the legislative session scheduled to end Friday.

News Brief: Garden Grove City Council voted unanimously to reject a proposal to build an Indian casino and resort just blocks from Disneyland.

News Brief: In time, according to gambling industry officials and economists, California almost surely will pass Nevada as the nation's biggest gambling venue.

Caesars Entertainment, with its signature toga doubling as an ill-fitting bridal gown, has apparently been ditched at the altar by the Pauma Band of Mission Indians.

News Brief: Assemblywoman Loni Hancock says that she would introduce a constitutional amendment calling for greater legislative oversight and public consideration of Indian gaming compacts.

News Brief: The Manzanita Indian band's hopes of developing an off-reservation casino in Calexico are getting a big boost with the backing of a new business partner: the Viejas tribe.

News Brief: Democrats are criticizing Governor Schwarzenegger’s casino deal as ‘mind-boggling’ in the detrimental impact it could have on the Bay Area.

News Brief: A casino bus burst into flames next to a freeway Sunday morning not long after dozens of passengers got off the vehicle, authorities said.

News Brief: Responding to opposition from Bay Area legislators, a California Indian tribe and investors have proposed scaling back plans for a sprawling, Las Vegas-style casino near San Francisco and Oakland.