Atlantic City, New Jersey – Pinnacle Entertainment says building the USD 2 billion casino-hotel it had envisioned for the Atlantic City Boardwalk is just not possible right now. Company chairman Dan Lee said Friday the beach house-themed casino on land where the Sands Casino Hotel once stood is just a "dream" at this point. Whether that dream becomes reality is looking more uncertain than ever.

Richmond - Opponents of a planned Nevada-style casino at Point Molate in Richmond - a USD 1.5 billion project with 1,500 hotel rooms and as many as 3,000 slot machines - are back in court accusing the city of giving a go-ahead to the developer without an environmental study required by a 2006 legal settlement. In a suit filed Monday in Contra Costa County Superior Court, opponents argued that Richmond made a commitment to the casino project in September...

For years, Tsai Ching-yun, a 53-year-old man who runs an electronic appliances store in Magong City, Penghu's capital, eked out a living selling TVs and DVD players to the small population on the archipelago southwest of mainland Taiwan. Like many young people, his two daughters have moved to mainland Taiwan due to the scarcity of jobs. Efforts by the local government to boost tourism in recent years have only been moderately successful due to the islands' strong winds, cold winters and relatively remote location.

Council Bluffs, Iowa -- A federal judge issued a ruling to block the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska from building a casino in Carter Lake. KETV NewsWatch 7 obtained documents showing that a judge in the southern district of Iowa reversed a decision by the National Indian Gaming Commission that approved the casino plans. The ruling said the commission lacked the authority to approve the plans.

The cards have started to be dealt in the process to bring a large casino to Middlesbrough. Operators in the UK and abroad will be invited to bid to win the licence to operate the large casino in the town. The successful bidder will be chosen by Middlesbrough Council’s licensing committee. Middlesbrough was one of eight towns and cities in the UK chosen by the Government to be the location of a large casino. It will have a gaming area of between 1,500sq m and 3,500sq m and will have up to 150 gaming machines with a maximum jackpot of GBP 4,000.

Boston – A new study by Spectrum Gaming Group study provides an in-depth analysis of possible economic and social impacts of the proposed expansion of gambling in Massachusetts. “I believe that this analysis will prove valuable for future policy deliberations if and when the issue of expanded gaming in Massachusetts re-emerges,” Daniel O’Connell, the state’s secretary of housing and economic development, said in a statement accompanying the report’s release.