Full-time employees at Niagara's two casinos have less than two weeks to decide whether to take a buyout package or hold onto their jobs. "We're offering our permanent full-time employees a financial compensation package," said Greg Medulun, a spokesman for Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort and Casino Niagara. The casinos told employees last week of a "voluntary resignation package" and a program to shift workers' status to part time from full time.

Vicksburg - Employee turnover and short staffs are problems already facing Vicksburg casinos, and the demand for skilled workers is about to get higher as a fifth casino begins hiring and another nears completion of a gaming room expansion. Meanwhile, the city's first casino college has opened with goals of easing local shortages. "This isn't something that's a new phenomenon, it's always been an issue in this industry," said Kim Tullos, general manager for DiamondJacks Casino.

A new, bigger casino boat is scheduled to coast into Little River this morning. The boat, which will do business under the name Big M Casino, replaces the Southern Elegance casino boat. Another company, SunCruz Casino, will continue to operate out of the northern Horry County community. Under county zoning law, only two boats can operate out of Little River. Big M Casino company of Fort Myers Beach, Fla., and Southern Cruise Lines of Little River will operate the boat.

It will go down as one of the greatest finds in the history of casino chips. The discovery of a subterranean trove of chips from the defunct Playboy casino in Atlantic City, N.J., has suddenly connected a tiny Mississippi town to the gambling capital of the East, prompted an investigation by authorities in New Jersey and led to a crisis in the high-stakes world of chip collecting. It all started April 14 -- fittingly, the anniversary of the opening of the Playboy Hotel & Casino 27 years ago.

Biloxi --It's been years since a camera was allowed into a surveillance room at a Mississippi casino. But last week the Mississippi Gaming Commission and Beau Rivage Casino showed the Sun Herald what it takes to crack an international cheating ring and why the government is partnering with casinos for homeland security. The Sun Herald also interviewed "John Doe," an undercover special agent for the MGC, who identified how the Tran Organization cheated at least 16 casinos in the United States and Canada...

oto-Quebec will open a new luxury casino in the popular resort town of Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, next year. It will cost $ 61 million to build and will create 175 jobs. It estimates there will be 700,000 visitors annually at the casino, which should generate revenues of CAD 50 million a year. The provincially owned lottery agency and the Quebec government announced Sunday that the province’s fourth casino should be operational in the Laurentian town, north of Montreal, by the summer of 2009.

A compulsive gambling counsellor from the United States is raising the red flag about the possible harmful impact of the introduction of casino gambling to Jamaica. Arnie Wexler, who served for eight years in New Jersey as the executive director of the Council on Compulsive Gambling, is not opposed to the Government's decision to give the green light for casinos, but he is imploring the authorities to put in place measures to tackle a major danger. Wexler fears more Jamaicans could become hooked on gambling.

May 2, 2008: Norman - Riverwind Casino has been evacuated due to a bomb threat tonight, a McClain County emergency dispatcher confirmed. Dispatchers for McClain County and the Lighthorse Police Department said authorities were on the scene, but they refused to provide further details. The casino's phone line rang unanswered tonight. Television station KFOR-4 reported an announcement was made over the casino's public address system asking patrons to leave the casino, and patrons were then asked to leave the property.

Nach dem Gambelli-Urteil Ende 2003 und der Folgeentscheidung Placanica im März 2007 dürfte Anfang des kommenden Jahres eine weitere Grundsatzentscheidung des Europäischen Gerichtshofs (EuGH) zur Dienstleistungsfreiheit bei Sportwetten verkündet werden. Die mit 13 Richtern besetzte Große Kammer des EuGH verhandelte in dieser Woche die ihm letztes Jahr aus Portugal vorgelegte Rechtssache C-42/07 vgl. zu den Vorlagefragen Sportwettenrecht aktuell Nr. 79).

President of the Republic, Rafael Correa, warned Guayaquil mayor, Jaime Nebot, that he will not allow the construction of a casino in Guayas river, next to Malecón 2000. "Of course I do not agree with it, and even worse, with the arrogance and pride; so we do not have to comply with laws or rules, we have to make a popular plebiscite”, affirmed the president. "The law and the rules clearly forbid the construction of casinos out of five-star hotels,” added Correa, and remarked...

Fort Hall, Idaho (AP) - The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes in southeastern Idaho plan to build two new casinos on the Fort Hall Reservation, officials said. "Idaho is one of the fastest-growing states in the country, and tourism is growing in southeast Idaho," Richard Kutch, a member of the Fort Hall Business Council, told the Idaho State Journal. "The tribes want to capitalize on that." Groundbreaking for the first casino, the Blackfoot Satellite C-Store Casino near exit 89 of Interstate 15 on the Fort Hall Reservation, is planned for May 15 with completion expected in September.

Atlantic City, New Jersey (AP) - No Atlantic City casino will go totally smoke-free this fall to comply with a tough new smoking law, the casinos said Tuesday. Ten casinos said they are planning to build the enclosed, non-gambling smoking lounges permitted under the law, and the eleventh said it is leaning that way. The only casino that has not explicitly said it will build smoking lounges is the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa.