A lawmaker is introducing a resolution spelling out how taxes from North Jersey casinos would be spent -- though the tax rate still isn't set, as critics note.
Labor Day means an uptick of interest in the approaching election, now just nine weeks away. Casino expansion and the 5th District House campaign are the key races.
The city's casinos saw their collective operating profit rise by 21 percent for the first six months of the year in a sign the struggling industry may be stabilizing.
Atlantic City's top casino had its best month ever even as a soon-to-close casino faltered amid a monthlong strike that helped prompt its billionaire owner to decide to shut it down.
The closure of Atlantic City's Trump Taj Mahal casino, planned for Oct. 10, may help bolster the arguments of both sides in a referendum over putting casinos in northern New Jersey.
With a strike against the Trump Taj Mahal casino about to enter its fourth week with no end in sight, Atlantic City's main casino workers union plans to turn up the heat by surrounding the massive gambling hall with 1,000 picketers.
Atlantic City's Trump Taj Mahal casino has given its striking union workers an ultimatum: Accept the company's health care offer by Monday or it's gone.