California News - Page 148

News Brief: To address gambling addiction, the recently released draft municipal services agreement between the city of Barstow and the Los Coyotes Band of Indians has provisions for helping problem gamblers.

News Brief: Shodakai Casino, a tribal casino in Mendocino County reopened Friday after a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order to regulators who ordered it closed 11 days ago.

News Brief: The gambling agreement Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is negotiating with four or possibly more California tribes that could bring $1 billion to the state would require them to waive some of their sovereign status as independent governments.

News Brief: A deal to expand gambling at five tribal casinos in California is pulling other tribes to the negotiating table with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and promising to shake up a $5 billion industry.

ews Brief: The Rincon Indian band is suing San Diego County Treasurer-Tax Collector Dan McAllister in federal court, seeking to halt the county's efforts to collect $1.6 million in room taxes on the hotel at Harrah's Rincon Casino & Resort.

News Brief: Campaigners from both the pro and con side of the slot issue debated the controversial measure at a Chamber of Commerce event.

News Brief: For the last five months, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's emissaries have convened with an attorney for several Indian tribes and has fashioned a way to get a bigger share of tribes' gambling revenue.

News Brief: Budget negotiators have already seized on the potential new tribal gaming revenue as the possible bridge between California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Democrat-controlled Legislature.

News Brief: California county officials say they remain ill-equipped to deal with the burdens brought by casinos and that new revisions won’t do much to remedy the strain on county services.

News Brief: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has to rid the state of two ballot initiatives on gambling and announced imminent deals authorizing four Indian tribes to expand their casinos.

News Brief: The Chukchansi Gold Resort and Casino in its first year has super charged the local economy with hundreds of new jobs and millions of new dollars.

Electronic Arts Inc., whose "Madden NFL" games sell more copies than any other sports video game, said it will stop posting online casino advertisements in its Web site, the New York Times reported.

News Brief: An initiative that could bring slot machines to urban racetracks and card rooms qualified early this month on the same day elections officials certified a rival, tribal-backed proposal that would give Indian casinos unlimited gaming for the next century.

News Brief: A well-connected Berkeley developer has teamed with a former Defense Secretary and a landless Native American tribe to float a proposal to build a casino and 1000-room four-hotel complex on Point Molate in Richmond, California.

News Brief: The Rincon Indian band filed a federal lawsuit yesterday against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, claiming that his casino negotiations with other tribes are unconstitutional and unfair.

ews Brief: Horseracing representatives were given the opportunity June 8 to tell a California Senate Governmental Organization sub-committee what's troubling the sport and they had plenty to say.

News Brief: A new poll says that voters are in favor of two separate Indian gambling initiatives that would give the state a bigger share of the profits.

The Shodakai Casino announced today that the casino will suspend operations for the next few days in compliance with the temporary closure order issued on Monday by the National Indian Gaming Commission.

Citing the weekend death of President Reagan, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday canceled a planned Las Vegas appearance intended to recruit expatriated businesses and their executives back to the Golden State.

News Brief: The Shodakai Casino in Mendocino County has been ordered to close its doors by noon tomorrow because it hasn't signed a state gaming agreement.