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ews Brief: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has put his opposition in writing to a November ballot measure that would end Indian casino tribes' state monopoly on slot machines.

News Brief: A U.S. District Court Judge has denied a motion to stop the expansion of slot machine gambling on California Indian reservations in a victory for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

News Brief: Andrew N.S. Glazer, an author of books on gambling and a columnist for the Free Press, died Sunday in Los Angeles from complications from a blood clot.

Cash Systems, Inc. has signed a contract to provide credit card cash advance and ATM services to The Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles, California.

News Brief: Prominent media consultant Don Sipple has left the campaign for a November ballot measure that could deliver slot machines to the state's big card clubs and racetracks.

News Brief: A ruling may come as early as today in a San Diego County tribe's request to block Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's deal with gambling compacts while it mounts a legal challenge.

News Brief: Although a contract for the proposed Indian casino in Barstow has been approved, a few more hurdles and some questions remain.

News Brief: California counties have begun receiving money for the first time from a fund designed to help them address traffic, public safety and other concerns related to tribal casinos.

News Brief: After more than a century of living in poverty, the Santa Ysabel band of Diegueño Indians is completing plans to build a mountaintop casino.

News Brief: A Bureau of Indian Affairs official was cleared of allegations that she used her authority to influence matters in her own tribe as it was seeking approval to build a $100 million casino in California.

The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians announced today the tribe unanimously voted to reject the recent Tribal-State compact deal.

A new economic study conducted by Business Research and Economic Advisors provides an in-depth market analysis of the unintended negative consequences of the new California Indian gaming compacts.

News Brief: While California Indian tribes do not disclose their casino revenue, compacts signed this week by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and five bands of Native Americans provide insight into their wealth.

News Brief: South Shore casinos are breathing a sigh of relief for now as a Sacramento County judge ruled Wednesday that an interchange to provide access to an Indian Casino on Highway 50 west of Lake Tahoe cannot be constructed.

News Brief: Citing economic hardship, Mendocino County supervisors are asking federal officials to keep the embattled Shodakai Casino open while tribal leaders hammer out a gambling compact with the state.

News Brief: The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether California's tribes, some of the state's biggest political donors, are bound by campaign-finance disclosure rules.

The new tribal casino compact agreements signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday likely will have no effect on the gaming industry in Las Vegas and little in the rest of the state, industry insiders and experts said.

News Brief: Three San Diego tribes have signed Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's gambling contract, but others have taken issue with the compacts.

Ben Affleck won a major poker open last night when he captured Commerce Casino's California State Poker Championship's $10,000-buy in event that netted him a cool $356,400, and a seat at the World Poker Tour Championship next April.

News Brief: After months of exhaustive negotiations, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger unveils several new tribal gaming compacts today, a $1 billion payment toward the ‘fair share’ he pledged to win from the state's Indian casinos during his campaign for governor.