Residents vote this week to decide whether to support a riverboat casino near a small town in eastern Iowa. The plan to build the casino near Riverside has divided residents in Washington county.

Agreement Reached Between Skycity And Skyline Regarding Christchurch Casinos Limited. SKYCITY Entertainment Group announced today that it has reached agreement with Skyline Enterprises Limited regarding their ongoing relationship in regard to Christchurch Casinos Limited (CCL).

Chicago - Illinois Gaming Board Chairman Elzie Higginbottom resigned his post Friday, according to Gov. Rod Blagojevich's office. Blagojevich spokeswoman Cheryle Jackson said Higginbottom, who served on the board for a little more than three years and has been its chairman since September 2002, gave no reason for his departure.

The sale of the 1.4 billion USD Aladdin hotel-casino is back on track since Nevada investigators were given access to audit documents dealing with some of the buyers' investments, Gaming Control Board Chairman Dennis Neilander said Wednesday. Licenses for a Planet Hollywood-led investment group are expected to be approved by the Gaming Commission at a hearing in Carson City today and the deal is expected to close Sept. 1, with the hotel-casino reopening the same day or shortly after that.

An entrepreneur who had to withdraw his application a year ago because of concerns about his business practices was licensed Thursday by Nevada regulators to hold 70 percent of the gambling operations at the Lady Luck in downtown Las Vegas.

Seeking to chart "a new course" in the sometimes prickly relations between casino-rich American Indian tribes and the rest of Minnesota, the head of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe proposed wide-ranging negotiations Thursday that could lead to tribal contributions to charity, state government and even pro sports stadiums.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has backed off from a demand that lawmakers approve before the end of the week a plan to build the state's first urban Indian casino. Acknowledging the complications of the proposed agreement with the Lytton Band of Pomo Indians to build a 2,500-slot machine facility in the East Bay community of San Pablo, Schwarzenegger has notified legislative leaders they can delay consideration of the compact until December or January.

Casino operator Sky City Entertainment today posted a write-off impacted slump in June year net profit to 100.22 million USD. The result -- down 6.1 per cent on last year's 107.5m USD profit -- was weighed down by a 20.1m USD write-off of its stake in Australian on-line sports betting firm Canbet.

Los Angeles - Four of the five tribes that signed new gambling deals with California in June have started ordering hundred of additional slot machines that could eventually bring the state more than $ 10 million a year. The orders were placed around the time of last week's approval by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs of agreements reached between Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the tribes to share revenue with the state in exchange for expanded gambling rights.

The City Council voted unanimously to reject a proposal to build an Indian casino and resort just blocks from Disneyland. Council members said Tuesday that a casino would not fit into the city's family oriented vision and would face strong opposition from the community.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has given his approval to five new Indian gaming compacts, including one for a San Pablo casino that would be California's largest. Schwarzenegger, the Sacramento Bee reported Tuesday, accepted an offer by the Lytton Band of Pomo Indians to scale back a planned 5,000-slot-machine casino to half its original size after state lawmakers' resistance threatened to stall the compacts at the end of the legislative session.

New Britain, Connecticut - The Eastern Pequot tribe has asked a Superior Court judge to throw out Donald Trump's 10 million USD breach of contract lawsuit, saying the matter should be argued after the tribe's federal recognition status is decided. The southeastern Connecticut tribe received federal recognition in June 2002, but state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and the towns of Ledyard, North Stonington and Preston are appealing.