On a shuttered San Francisco Bay Area naval base with a treasured waterfront, a California tribe and investors are testing state and national restrictions for reservation shopping and casino development.
Tribal Study Blasts California’s Online Poker Hopes
08 Feb, 2010
A study by a former state finance director warns that legalisation of internet poker in California could deprive state budget coffers of $365m annually because the games would violate gambling exclusivity agreements with tribal casinos.
California Calls Time On Charity Bingo Parlours
02 Feb, 2010
California’s protracted legal battle over charity bingo is ending with moving vans and signs of surrender as gamblers pay last respects to local bingo halls and charities remove hundreds of electronic gaming machines.
Court Decision Completes Rout Of Charity Bingo Machines
21 Dec, 2009
The last call for charity bingo parlours operating casino-style games in California may have finally arrived, and Indian gambling interests say the anticipated demise of electronic bingo is long overdue.
Urban Casino Plans Stir San Francisco Fury
26 Oct, 2009
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and other California lawmakers are aggressively trying to head off development bids by struggling Indian bands and wishful investors that continue to eye the San Francisco Bay Area as a potential Emerald City for casino gambling.
Licence Draw Fizzles As California Downturn Weighs On Tribes
09 Oct, 2009
Eleven California tribes have been awarded licences for 3,548 new slot machines in a major victory for tribes that complained they were unjustly barred from expanding under casino deals the state agreed to in 1999, but many more licenses went unclaimed.
Tribes Scent Victory As California Slot Cap Melts
05 Oct, 2009
A legal war between tribes and Arnold Schwarzenegger over the governor’s demands that tribes fork over millions of dollars for reworking casino deals California agreed to in 1999 is intensifying following the state’s failure to block a draw for more than 10,000 new slots licences taking place today.
California Court Decision Lifts Slot Machine Cap
28 Aug, 2009
A court battle in California to overturn the state’s slot machine limits has ended in victory for the tribes who opposed the administration’s restrictive reading of their 1999 compacts.
California’s Online Poker Push Inflames Tribal Divisions
17 Aug, 2009
As the legislative session resumes later today in California, a move by one of California’s leading casino gambling tribes and poker clubs to legalise internet poker in the state is rekindling the intense tribe-versus-tribe politics that drove costly ballot fights in recent years.
Hollywood Park Loses Out In Changed Gaming World
12 Jun, 2009
The Inglewood City Council in California is giving the green light to a major redevelopment project that signals the pending demise of one of the Golden State’s most famous horse racing venues.