Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino News - Page 2

Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino to adopt a state-designed racing schedule for 2010.

News Brief: Prairie Meadows gains an estimated $7 million per year in slot revenue from people on hand for its horse races, an economist told the racetrack-casino's board of directors Wednesday.

News Brief: Officials at Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino in Altoona say they might have to ask Polk County taxpayers to guarantee up to $40 million in bonds for a new hotel, but county officials have serious doubts about the idea.

News Brief: Iowa's gambling regulators plan to review federal conspiracy charges filed in an ongoing job-training scandal against a board member of Polk County-owned Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino.

News Brief: Gross gaming receipts rebounded at Council Bluffs casinos during February, topping January's market totals by $1.3 million, according to figures released by the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission.

News Brief: Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino in Altoona, Iowa, could be the next entrant in the Polk County hotel business.

News Brief: A plan to increase an expansion project budget by $4 million to $5 million will be considered this week by officials at Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino.

News Brief: Revenue from table games at Lakeside Casino Resort in Osceola plummeted nearly 30 percent in December after the same gambling options became available at Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino in Altoona.

News Brief: Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino will begin offering casino-style table games after receiving state approval earlier this year to expand its gambling menu.

News Brief: A Prairie Meadows Racetrack lobbyist and other supporters of the Altoona, Iowa, racing and gambling operation have formed an organization to oppose the building of another casino in the area and have begun an advertising blitz.

A member of the Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino board of directors has dropped his proposal that board members receive an annual salary.

News Brief: Des Moines city leaders, in agreeing Monday to accept millions of dollars from the state's most profitable racetrack-casino, will stand against any private company's attempts to bring a riverboat casino to the city.

News Brief: Prairie Meadows Racetrack concluded its 2004 meet on July 4 with a 20% increase in all sources average daily handle and a 9% rise in on-track handle.

News Brief: Prairie Meadows racetrack casino says table games would pour millions into Polk County, but it's far from a done deal.

News Brief: Prairie Meadows and a Council Bluffs racetrack would be taxed at a higher rate than other state-regulated casinos under a new tax plan proposed by Senate leaders Wednesday.

News Brief: Jim Rasmussen, former chairman of Prairie Meadows, died on Wednesday at his home after a long illness.