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Mississippi business groups have formed an alliance to ask the State Legislature to allow reconstruction adjacent to the waters edge.

Agency-of-Record hawkeye | FFWD of Dallas, Texas, and client Hollywood Casino of Tunica, Missisippi, were big winners at the Fifth Annual American Gaming Association Communications Awards show.

Isle of Capri Casinos, Inc. report the appointment of Jose Oakley as vice president and general manager of the company's Isle of Capri-Lula, Mississippi.

News Brief: The Hard Rock Casino barge, destroyed by the winds and tidal surge from Hurricane Katrina on Aug. 29, caught fire Wednesday.

News Brief: Gov. Haley Barbour on Monday called a Sept. 27 special session to deal with issues related to Hurricane Katrina.

All of the largest operators of commercial casinos with properties in Mississippi and Louisiana have committed to rebuild their properties in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Silver Slipper CEO and project developer, Paul Alanis, has organized a clothing drive to help those affected by Hurricane Katrina.

Furthering its efforts to assist its nearly 8,000 employees impacted by Hurricane Katrina, Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. reports the opening of the Harrah's Baton Rouge Employee Information Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

With the fifth annual Global Gaming Expo being dubbed a success by its sponsors from the American Gaming Association, the gaming industry is looking towards the future and rebuilding the Gulf Coast casino industry.

President of Imperial Palace reports that the company is determined to rebuild the casino.

Executives at Beau Rivage today announced that they have opened a new Job Placement Center to provide information about available positions at the Gold Strike resort in Tunica, Mississippi and all available positions at MGM Mirage properties in Nevada.

As the hurricane approached the Mississippi Gulf Coast, many vacationers moved to Tunica, the state's other major gaming resort.

Harrah's Entertainment has canceled the World Series of Poker Circuit tournament scheduled to begin September 29 at Grand Casino Biloxi.

Stepping up efforts to help nearly 8,000 Harrah's employees begin the process of recovery from Hurricane Katrina, Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. announced the opening of the Harrah's Gulf Coast Region Assistance Center today in Gulfport, Mississippi.

Less than two weeks after Hurricane Katrina laid waste to the Gulf Coast's gaming industry, some of the area's 14,000 casino workers are growing anxious about the future.

MGM Mirage announced today that plans for recovery and rebuilding its Beau Rivage Resort in Biloxi, Mississippi, are underway.

News Brief: Many Mississippi casino foreign workers are left in limbo because their guest worker visas require them to work at a casino that no longer exists.

Harrah's Entertainment's top executive is recommending the Mississippi government allow the company to build a temporary casino on land to replace its Grand Casino Biloxi riverboat, which was hurled ashore and destroyed in Hurricane Katrina.

Steve Bottfeld, a local analyst with consumer-research company Marketing Solutions, said the Las Vegas market could begin to see noticeable in-migration from the Gulf Coast within 60 days.

While the Gulf Coast casinos were all covered by some form of business interruption and property damage insurance, it is unclear if the individual policies will keep their corporate owners from having to pay out of pocket to rebuild their multimillion-dollar gambling halls.