Casino plans for Bath are likely to get back on track in the next few weeks. The Government is expected to confirm that Bath remains on a list of eight cities across the UK earmarked for a small casino. Plans for 16 new casinos across the country and a supercasino in Manchester were thrown out by the House of Lords in March last year.

Boston - Gov. Deval Patrick released a USD 28 billion budget proposal yesterday, banking on casino licensing fees to fund local aid and challenging his critics in the Legislature to come up with their own solutions to the state's fiscal challenges. "It's better than just digging once again and even deeper into the rainy day fund. What we need are fixes that will last," Patrick said at a press conference yesterday.

Oklahoma City (AP) - The Shawnee Tribe is planning a USD 400 million casino project that would include a 400-room hotel and employ 1,900 people. Officials with the Miami, Okla.-based tribe said Wednesday they have filed paperwork with the Bureau of Indian Affairs to start the process of putting 104 acres of land in northeast Oklahoma City into federal trust for development of a resort.

The parent company of Casino Aztar in Evansville is back in the news as speculation mounts about the future of two major properties owned by the financially troubled hotel and casino operator Columbia Sussex. Wednesday's edition of the Wall Street Journal carries a report on the questions surrounding the future of the Tropicana Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, purchased by Columbia Sussex in late 2006...

Mashantucket, Connecticut - Foxwoods Resort Casino is starting to recruit thousands of workers in anticipation of opening its new MGM Grand casino. Foxwoods will kick off its recruitment campaign Sunday with the launch of a new employment Web site. Opening in May, the MGM Grand at Foxwoods will have 2,000 employees and provide an additional 1,000 jobs at the property's restaurants...

Casino Windsor officials are putting in a quarter, pulling the arm and hoping for the best. The casino's massive construction project, which has added a second tower to the Windsor skyline and is adding a 5,000-seat arena and convention center space to a remodeled casino and hotel, is expected to be done by June. Business was strong when the casino committed to the project in 2005, but that's no longer the case.

Detroit - A trio of casinos similar to those proposed by Gov. Deval Patrick have hit a wall in Detroit, leaving the cash-strapped city reeling from plummeting gambling revenues and sending a harsh warning to Massachusetts. A Herald review shows revenue generated by three Motor City casinos was down USD 82 million in 2007 while the state’s take fell by USD 10 million.

Last week, the Casino Superintendence (SCJ) received from Rantrur S.A. (Enjoy), located in Castro, Los Lagos region, the first announcement in which a public (limited) company declares its interest to apply for a casino project to one of the three places legally available which will be tendered in 2008. The twelve regions in which the current law allows private investors to make announcements are...

Nevada’s foreclosure crisis claimed a high-profile victim last week, as investment bank Deutsche Bank took the first step toward foreclosing on the USD 3 billion Cosmopolitan Resort & Casino project. Developer and owner Ian Bruce Eichner said his company, 3700 Associates, was working with Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch to find new investors. The construction loan from Deutsche Bank of USD 760 million went into default Wednesday, the company said.

Knesset Interior Committee Chairman Ophir Paz-Pines warned Tourism Ministry officials that there won’t be a legal casino in Israel anytime soon, despite plans by the Eilat Municipality and the Tourism Ministry to build the country’s first casino. Despite plans by the Eilat Municipality and the Tourism Ministry to build the country’s first casino, Paz-Pines remained adamant that the Knesset would never legalize gambling.

Las Vegas (AP) -- Billionaire Sheldon Adelson flipped the switch "on" for his newest creation, the USD 1.9 billion Palazzo hotel-casino, with a modest fireworks display and champagne toast in the brisk January air. The gigantic hotel-casino -- Palazzo means "palace" in Italian -- officially debuted Thursday as the biggest resort to open on the Las Vegas Strip in three years.

Las Vegas - Sheldon Adelson, the casino mogul, has seen his personal net worth plummet by more than USD 15 billion in recent months as Wall Street investors have grown more bearish about the prospects of casino companies that are pushing aggressively into Asia. That slide might put a crimp in his stated goal of surpassing Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, the only two titans ahead of him on Forbes' recent list of the richest people in the United States.