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News Brief: The Palace, a boutique casino that prided itself on having the same luxuries as its biggest competitors, reopens Friday.

News Brief: A crowd of impatient gamblers rushed into the IP Casino just after 11 a.m. Thursday, a reopening that was delayed two hours because of a glitch in the surveillance system.

News Brief: Natchez city officials late Wednesday opened the only bid they received for a casino at the riverside Roth Hill site, almost two months after the city sent out a request for proposals for a hotel and/or casino.

When the Imperial Palace reopens as an upgraded, refurbished casino resort on December 22, the optimistic fresh start for the Mississippi Gulf Coast will begin with it.

Harrah's Entertainment reduced its losses in the hurricane-ravaged Mississippi Gulf Coast, agreeing on Tuesday to sell what's left of the Grand Casino Gulfport.

Harrah's Entertainment has signed a definitive agreement to sell the assets of Grand Casino Gulfport to Gulfside Casino Partnership.

Plans by Houston-based Landry's Restaurants to bring a Golden Nugget-brand casino to hurricane-ravaged Biloxi, Miss., were rejected this week by the city's elected leaders.

News Brief: The Mississippi Gaming Commission gave its blessings Thursday for the Silver Slipper Casino to start building on land and for the Palace Casino to reopen on Dec. 30.

News Brief: A $400 million casino project, the first major investment for the Coast since Hurricane Katrina, could fall through because Biloxi and the developer have not agreed on

The House voted Wednesday to offer tax breaks as incentives for hurricane-battered businesses to rebuild in the Gulf states, except for casinos and other recreation that critics sa

News Brief: Some Point Cadet property owners are worried that drawn-out negotiations between the city of Biloxi and a casino developer may kill the deal for the Golden Nugget.

After today, MGM Mirage will no longer pay wages and benefits to the displaced employees from the company's hurricane-shuttered Beau Rivage casino in Biloxi, Mississippi.

Las Vegas-based Harrah's Entertainment laid off most of its 9,400-person Gulf Coast casino work force this week.

After a three-month slide gaming stocks rebounded in November, shaking off the effects of Gulf Coast hurricanes and higher fuel prices.

The World Poker Open returns to Tunica for its seventh year and will be held exclusively at Gold Strike Casino Resort.

News Brief: Like staggered holiday parties, three Biloxi casinos will reopen within days of one another next month.

News Brief: Golden Nugget developers showed city officials plans Tuesday for a casino resort called Biloxi Boardwalk.

News Brief: Bigger, better and with a lot more than just gaming. That's the future experts are predicting for the Mississippi Gulf Coast casino industry.

News Brief: The Golden Nugget Casino would be the anchor business for a $400 million Biloxi Boardwalk development that would employ about 3,000 people, according to plans executives with Landry's Restaurants Inc.