California News - Page 138

News Brief: Two-thirds of Barstow area residents support the placement of Indian-owned casinos in the area near the outlets malls, according to a phone survey commissioned by the developers of a project recently approved by the governor.

News Brief: The Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians' dreams of opening a second casino on land they won two years ago in a settlement of a decades-old water-rights dispute has run headlong into a swelling statewide backlash against proposals to build casinos away from reservations.

Black Oak Casino's will host a regional qualifier for the San Francisco International Stand Up Comedy Competition.

Pechanga Resort & Casino, a AAA four-diamond property in Southern California, has deployed 200 Motion Computing tablet PCs for gaming table management, player tracking and employee training.

Coachella Valley and Tulare County won't be getting additional funds anytime soon to hire police officers, buy fire trucks and improve traffic flow and safety around Indian casinos.

The Los Coyotes Band of Cahuilla and Cupeno Indians and the Big Lagoon Rancheria joined Governor Schwarzenegger today in announcing they have successfully negotiated gaming compacts.

A couple guys from Riverside got together and decided to launch the biggest consumer show for gamblers on the West Coast, December 2-4, 2005.

News Brief: Assemblywoman Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley, asked California Attorney General Bill Lockyer on Monday to investigate the new video bingo machines at Casino San Pablo, charging that they were nearly identical to slot machines.

Actress Jennifer Tilly won the World Poker Tour Ladies Night III tournament at the Bicycle Casino in California.

California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control has agreed to adopt the judge's decision and to issue an alcohol license for the River Rock Casino.

News Brief: The Mono Wind Casino remains closed and faces some tough decisions after a court ruling on Tuesday.

News Brief: Garden Grove city leaders at a study session tonight will consider a budget committee's recommendation to pursue a resort and tribal casino along Harbor Boulevard.

News Brief: Hearing both supportive and opposing viewpoints from the public at its scheduled meeting, the Glenn County Board of Supervisors voted 2-3 not to support the casino proposal from the Grindstone Rancheria of Wintun-Wailaki Indians.

News Brief: Legislation to give California's gambling commission greater discretion to conduct its business in closed session was sent to the governor yesterday after a final vote in the Senate.

News Brief: Neighbors are incensed over the Jamul Indian band's new plan for a 30-story hotel-casino in their East County community. Some say the real aim is to weaken their opposition to the tribe's former proposal, a hotel-casino of about the same size but built out, not up.

A selection of news and views from inside the industry this week.

e Bicycle Casino's Legends of Poker began earlier this month with thousands of tournament players descending on Bell Gardens.

News Brief: Las Vegas-style gambling in the heart of Orange County, a longshot possibility previously dismissed as too controversial, is up for reconsideration in Garden Grove as a new source of city revenue.

The poker room at Pechanga Resort & Casino in Temecula, California is now offering women a chance to win a coveted seat in the Ladies’ Tournament in the 2006 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.

News Brief: Sen. Dean Florez has introduced what he called emergency legislation to require local public approval for off-reservation casinos, saying it will make Madera County the state's ‘poster child’ for tribal gaming reform.