Alpine, California (AP) - The Viejas Band of Kumeyaay Indians said it plans to build an USD 800 million casino-hotel resort just east of its existing 2,500-slot casino and outlet mall. The new resort 35 miles from downtown San Diego would feature 2,500 slots, a 600-room hotel, a pool, a spa, shops, restaurants, a conference center, a multiplex movie theater, two parking structures and a new power plant. The tribe, which unveiled its plan Thursday, hopes to complete construction in five years.

The Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians and the Morongo Band of Mission Indians along with two other tribes reached the end of a campaign to expand their tribal casinos when the governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed bills ratifying revised gambling agreements. The four bills signed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will allow the Agua Caliente and Morongo tribes alone to add up to 8,500 new slot machines.