California Gambling Control Commission

The new chairman of California's Gambling Control Commission expressed an aversion to gambling Thursday, and called for clearer authority to audit and inspect fast-expanding Indian casinos. Burks "Dean" Shelton, selected by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to head the commission, said he believes the state has the authority to "yank their licenses for those slot machines" if, for example, the casinos are found to be cheating.

A long-simmering battle over a casino in Los Angeles County's tiniest city has reached a critical phase as the state Gambling Control Commission weighs whether to grant the card club's controversial owner, Dr.

With the clock ticking on the Davis administration, the governor's office is offering last-minute concessions to the state's powerful casino tribes by moving to change the balance of the gambling control commission and oust its top legal advisor, according to the commission chairman.

Public policy analysts on Friday condemned a proposal that Gov. Gray Davis made behind closed doors to give Indian tribes the right to choose two members of the commission that regulates tribal gambling in California.

Gov. Gray Davis' nominee to head the newly formed Gambling Control Commission narrowly won support Monday from a key Senate committee, despite opposition from the head of one of the state's most politically influential casino-operating Indian tribes.

Gambling regulators have canceled today's much-ballyhooed deadline for Native American casinos to install hundreds of lucrative slot machines--a deadline they say never existed but developed out of confusion over California's new casino gambling compact.

Members of the California Gambling Control Commission indicated Monday that they favor legislation that would allow the state to regulate charitable bingo games.

Gov. Gray Davis on Tuesday appointed four members to the state Gambling Control Commission, a new body with wide-ranging authority over California's multibillion-dollar card club industry and some jurisdiction over Indian casinos.