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The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and Clear Channel Entertainment Properties announce the first Vegas Rock Star Poker Tournament and Sweepstakes.

The Great Blue Heron Charity Casino reports that employees represented by the Canadian Auto Workers union have ratified a first collective agreement between the Charity Casino and the CAW.

Aladdin President Bill Timmins ordered security guards to escort pop diva Linda Ronstadt off the property following a concert Saturday night during which she expressed support for controversial documentary filmmaker Michael Moore.

ews Brief: A Sacramento man had been feeding dollars into a $1 slot machine at Thunder Valley Casino for about 20 minutes he hit the state's biggest casino jackpot ever - $12 million.

A California harness racing track company may take over the financially troubled Vernon Downs.

News Brief: Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods are not worried that the introduction of 61,000 slots into neighbouring states will adversely affect their business.

News Brief: Nearly 200 speakers showed up to voice their opinions on the proposal to approve 600 slot machines for the Hastings Racecourse.

Minority small business people attending the MBE Showcase 2004 had mixed opinions about how the proposed mergers of major gaming companies will affect their chances of doing business with those companies.

Nevada gaming regulators have approved Station Casinos' request to take over management at Henderson's Gold Rush and Magic Star casinos.

News Brief: The Bush administration won't adopt a ‘blanket’ policy on off-reservation gaming, according to a top Bureau of Indian Affairs official.

National Indian Gaming Commission Chairman Phil Hogen announced today that national 2003 gross gaming revenues for Indian gaming facilities topped $16.7 billion, an increase of $2 billion or 13.7 percent over 2002 gross gaming revenues.

National Indian Gaming Commission Chairman Phil Hogen announced today that national 2003 gross gaming revenues for Indian gaming facilities topped $16.7 billion, an increase of $2 billion or 13.7 percent over 2002 gross gaming revenues.

News Brief: On Sept. 28, the U.S. Treasury Department will release its latest tool: a redesigned $50 bill, teeming with high-tech security features to help banks, casinos and other businesses thwart counterfeiters.

MGM Mirage's Big Apple-themed New York-New York resort could get some new polish if the gaming company's $7.9 billion acquisition of Mandalay Resort Group is completed as proposed.

News Brief: They're dealing cards and drawing a crowd in a three-day tourney at Turning Stone Casino.

Las Vegas Sands on Monday released new details about its planned $1.6 billion Palazzo casino resort on the Strip at Sands Avenue and started marketing a $975 million credit package to provide financing for the project.

The Silverton hotel-casino plans to produce a live hourly mermaid show at a 110,000-gallon salt-water tropical fish tank it is building as a new attraction.

News Brief: Vernon Downs is awaiting word from state regulators whether the track's majority owners can keep putting money into the financially troubled track.

News Brief: Business leaders in Boonville say allowing riverboat gambling in southwest Missouri would siphon gamblers from the Isle of Capri casino and hurt the local economy.

CAW-Canada has set a strike deadline of Thursday, July 15, 12:01 a.m., in an effort to reach an agreement with the Great Blue Heron Charity Casino, covering 700 workers in Port Perry, Ontario.