California News - Page 150

News Brief: A California appeals court has rejected bids to block a November vote on an initiative that seeks to end the tribal monopoly on slot machines by allowing some racetracks and card rooms to run slots.

News Brief: Solano County supervisors have agreed to support the creation of a California multicounty coalition regarding Indian casinos.

News Brief: Final payments were mailed last week to subcontractors who built the Chukchansi Gold Resort & Casino near Coarsegold, casino officials said Tuesday.

News Brief: Residents around San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino soon will have more police patrols.

News Brief: The Schwarzenegger-negotiated settlement with casino tribes made early progress but may be falling apart as tribes peel off to back an initiative pushed by the Agua Caliente tribe that would provide much less revenue to the state.

News Brief: More than six months before election day, racetrack and card club owners are already fighting with Indian tribes over who will feed California’s appetite for slot machines.

News Brief: A former Stateline casino pit boss has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $1 million from Harveys Resort Casino.

San Diego tourism officials hope to make waves in the desert this summer through their largest-ever media blitz encouraging Southern Nevadans to vacation in the Pacific resort town.

News Brief: A North Coast lawmaker is crafting legislation designed to ensure that local governments have the opportunity to negotiate concessions from Indian tribes seeking to build casinos.

America West Airlines initiated new service today between its Las Vegas hub and Burbank, California.

News Brief: As Governor Schwarzenegger negotiates new casino compacts with tribes, local officials around the state are hoping the new agreements will come with the legal tools and political will to make them enforceable.

News Brief: Legislative leaders have urged the California Supreme Court to keep off the ballot a proposed initiative that threatens the tribes' state monopoly on Nevada-style casinos.

News Brief: A day after five tribes sued to head off a proposed ballot initiative that could break their state monopoly on slot machines, a Palm Springs tribe that owns two casinos also filed a suit to block the measure.

News Brief: Neighbors of the San Manuel casino in the San Bernardino foothills are banding together with communities statewide to urge elected officials to more closely regulate what types of projects tribes can build.

News Brief: Indian tribes that own casinos filed a suit Tuesday, urging that the California Supreme Court thwart a proposed ballot initiative that threatens the tribes' state monopoly on slot machines.

News Brief: California casino tribes launched a campaign to pressure Los Angeles County’s Sheriff Lee Baca to abandon a proposed initiative that would threaten their monopoly on Nevada-style gambling.

News Brief: The financial success of their casinos hasn't ended California American Indians' traditional presence in the media as stereotypes, a San Diego County tribal chairman said Tuesday.

News Brief: California’s race for slots has been whittled down to two gambling proposals.

While visiting the Trump 29 Casino in California, Donald Trump beat one of the Apprentice Chickens who are trained to play tic-tac-toe as a promotional gimmick.

News Brief: The U.S. Supreme Court has refused without comment to consider a Placer County citizens group's challenge of Thunder Valley Casino.