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…

B.C.‘s biggest casino is one step closer to growing even bigger. Richmond city staff has recommended a permit be granted to allow the 151,000-square-foot River Rock Casino Resort to build a 38,000-sq.-ft. addition that would link it to a station under construction across the street for the Canada Line. The application will be heard Tuesday afternoon by the development permit panel.