that there are benefits associated with the private casino that would have opened in the Portland area. I agree with many that we owe the tribes the right they've been granted to have a monopoly on ...

At the far end of town they reach their destination: 25 acres of grass and oak trees next to the highway, a former lumber mill zoned light industrial. Nine million cars drive past this location each ...

When Gov. Ted Kulongoski went rambling outside the box in a recent interview with The Oregonian's Harry Esteve, the governor offered that some once-unthinkable proposals might be in play if Oregon ...

Two businessmen, Matt Rossman and Bruce Studer, have been gaining momentum for a proposed casino at the Wood Village Park greyhound track in Multnomah County, just 12 miles from Portland, Oregon. The ...

On Monday, a $510 million tribal casino opened in the state of Washington in the Portland-Vancouver metro area. The facility, Ilani Casino Resort, has 75 table games and 2,500 slot machines. There’s ...

Portland Meadows, the only commercial horse-racing track in Oregon, celebrated its 70th birthday last year. In a legislative hearing earlier this month, the track's general manager and its lobbyist ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon voters have turned back a proposal to build the state’s first non-tribal casino in a suburb of Portland. Two Lake Oswego businessmen and a Canadian investment firm had ...