Michigan News - Page 34

The Island Resort & Casino today announces Midwest Gaming and Travel magazine readers have bestowed “best-of” recognition on the resort.

News Brief: The Teamsters union has asked the National Labor Relations Board to conduct a union election at the Soaring Eagle Casino & Resort.

News Brief: Manistee, Michigan, casino slot profits don't cover the $2.16 million payments in lieu of taxes on the casino and the local government's grant requests.

News Brief: Metro Detroiters who visited the new MGM Grand hotel and casino on its opening day had one thing to say: Wow.

News Brief: A proposal to build a casino atop a renovated Cobo Center, add slot machines to six racetracks throughout the state was dismissed by Detroit and Michigan officials.

The $800-million MGM Grand Detroit debuted last night raising the city's hospitality offerings to unparalleled heights.

Eight years after opening its initial Detroit venture, MGM Mirage pulls the wraps off its $800 million MGM Grand Detroit this morning.

News Brief: The Michigan Gaming Control Board on Thursday issued an order that all gambling at Detroit’s three casinos will halt if the budget impasse in Lansing triggers a shutdown of state government functions next week.

News Brief: A Michigan bill by House Majority Floor Leader Steve Tobocman, would allow applicants for service-related jobs to skip the state's rigid gaming license requirements.

The head of the Michigan Business and Professional Association and the Michigan Food and Beverage Association urged the Governor and the State Legislature to quickly approve a new budget to prevent small businesses and service companies from economic disaster.

News Brief: Detroit's three casinos oppose closing their doors in the event a state budget stalemate forces a shutdown of government services.

MotorCity Casino Hotel has named Detroit native, Randall K. Villareal, as vice president of hotel operations effective immediately.

News Brief: With its new Arenac County casino under construction, the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe has chosen Saganing Eagle's Landing Casino as the facility's new name.

News Brief: Romulus, Michigan, officials may be able to salvage the seemingly doomed Magna project after all.

News Brief: A Detroit casino manager was targeted for murder, police said today, and investigators are looking into whether his job was connected to the killing.

News Brief: The U.S. Appeals Court in Washington, D.C., has set an Oct. 19 hearing in a case many expect will be an unsuccessful last-ditch effort to halt a proposed Allegan County casino.

News Brief: The Kewadin Shores Casino in St. Ignace can finally welcome gamblers, at least until a lawsuit is resolved over whether the casino can exist on land that's ineligible for Indian gaming.

Sault Tribe Chairperson Aaron Payment and the Board of Directors announced they received a preliminary injunction from the U.S District Court today which, will allow for immediate gaming on the main casino floor of the new Kewadin Shores Casino in St. Ignace.

Chefs Wolfgang Puck and Michael Mina each have announced the culinary teams for their restaurants inside MGM Grand Detroit, slated to open October 2, 2007.

News Brief: Michigan racetracks are reviving a quest to have slot machines, in a move that could provide Michigan with new revenue to help solve its budget problems.