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The new owners of the Hard Rock Hotel unveiled plans Monday for $750 million in renovations and expansions that will double the size of the property by adding new hotel rooms and convention space to the property as well as a new, larger concert venue.

Robert Boughner, president of Echolon, said renderings and designs for Echelon would be revealed at the formal ground breaking, but he cautioned against expecting Echelon to have a theme attached to its architecture.

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.

LVI Services Inc. announces the implosion of Las Vegas' famed Stardust Casino and Hotel Towers.

Since acquiring the Four Queens Hotel & Casino three years ago, local businessman, Terry Caudill, has invested over $20 million in the historic downtown property.

Beginning this month, Spa Resort Casino in Palm Springs is offering free lessons on the hottest poker game around: Texas Hold ‘Em.

Almost two weeks after the Sahara was seemingly given a new lease on life, demolition crews are preparing to blast away the last remnant of the Stardust.

Fallsview Casino Resort releases the June 2007 concert line-up for the resort's Avalon Ballroom Theatre.

ews Brief: The Meadowlands will discontinue racing on Wednesday nights for the following eight weeks.

News Brief: The new Mount Airy Resort and Casino will have quite a different look than from its legendary predecessor.

News Brief: The Northern Arapaho Tribe's Wind River Casino has discontinued offering bingo.

DLJ Merchant Banking Partners and Morgans Hotel Group Co. report a large-scale expansion and renovation project for the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

Powerball will move to an estimated $165 million for Wednesday's draw as the grand prize was not hit Saturday evening.

In a week that saw Mega Millions break the record for the largest jackpot ever in North America, Mega Millions is on the move once again.

It was the night owl who took home the cash overnight as the very first Paradise Jackpot winner at Spa Resort Casino in Palm Springs.

News Brief: Investigations into Lotto 6/49 jackpots are widening across Canada after CBC News discovered the advertised weekly winning amounts are often overestimated by hundreds of thousands of dollars.

News Brief: The federal agency that oversees regulation of Native American casinos confirmed Thursday that it had issued a subpoena demanding that the Seneca Nation of Indians turn over records in an ongoing investigation about gambling revenues.

ews Brief: Casino Aztar in Evansville will pay the Indiana Gaming Commission a $160,500 fine to settle regulatory violations that include inaccurate admissions counts on which tax payments are based.

Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, reports the appointment of two executives to its senior management team.

ews Brief: What started in 1984 with a bingo hall inside a white, oblong tent run by the O'odham nation has morphed into a $120 million casino-hotel project, scheduled to open this fall.