A consultation exercise is under way in south Cumbria into how the council should manage gambling licences.

The cost of gambling licences for betting shops on Jersey could increase four-fold under new proposals.

Even the global gambling capital is not immune to the economic crisis. For the first time Macao’s multi-billion dollar business is suffering. But the financial downturn is not the only reason.

With no competition, Macau’s new leader was appointed Sunday while the world’s gambling capital and Chinese enclave struggles with an industry slump brought on by the economic crisis and tougher visa restrictions.

In the face of a legal challenge from every major sports league (sorry, UFC and MLS and PGA and WWE) to its brand-new plan of legalized gambling, the state of Delaware will “vigorously defend” its effort to raise funds for publicly-provide services and to improve the local economy.

The Vic govt has been accused of not doing enough to fight problem gambling, on the back of recent figures.

Black Hawk, Colo., bolstered by a huge expansion of legal gambling that was approved last fall, is alive and pushing the frontier.

A gambling trade group is pushing Congress to once again legalize online poker.

PETERSBURG, VA (NBC12) – Petersburg Police shut down two C & S Business Center Internet Cafes Saturday because of illegal gambling. One in the 800 block of East Washington Street.

A gambling operation is shut down, and numerous gambling machines confiscated in a Rusk County raid.

A new state-ordered study concludes that legalized gambling is a boon to the Connecticut economy, but the state has done a poor job of regulating the industry and more people are becoming addicted to gambling.

State gambling regulators meet today to consider whether to authorize the first expansion of Iowa’s gambling industry in four years.

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Former NBA star Antoine Walker is facing criminal charges over $822,500 in gambling debts to three Las Vegas casinos.

The Tasmanian Gaming Commission has been given the go ahead to implement a range of new measures to tackle problem gambling.

SPRINGFIELD – An industry group says state lawmakers have seriously underestimated the amount of money a new tax on video gambling will provide and is urging Gov. Pat Quinn to instead veto the proposed increases in liquor taxes.

Morgan County’s Sheriff Greg Bartlett wants those who want to make a living gambling to know if they are caught, they will be arrested and their machines confiscated.

New Jersey’s horse racing and casino gambling industries still have a long way to go in developing a collaborative strategy to meet the competitive challenges emerging in neighboring states.

In the high-stakes court battle over the constitutionality of a federal law banning all Internet gambling transactions that would be illegal in the gambler’s state, a trio of federal appeals judges appeared unlikely Tuesday to strike the law down. Instead, all three judges on the 3rd Circuit panel seemed inclined to uphold the Unlawful Internet [...]

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