gambling

Dallas City Council members voted to approve another $70k to fund a legal fight between a city official and the city's Board of Adjustment.

Given the stiff headwinds to getting any expansion in gambling passed, sports betting and casino advocates may be competing against each other, rather than working in tandem.

Poker houses have led to big payouts — at least for private attorneys hired by the City of Dallas.

The ruling doesn’t expand the kinds of games tribes can offer on their lands but reaffirms their autonomy to regulate gambling activities that aren’t prohibited in Texas, regardless of the state’s rules.

The new Texas Sands PAC has already spread over half a million dollars across roughly three dozen primaries for the state House and Senate.

The effort to expand gambling for two Texas tribes sailed through the U.S. House, but faces a taller task in the Senate.

Efforts are underway to bring casinos to Texas, where gambling is illegal. Still, the state has a strong connection with gambling, from underground casinos to larger-than-life gamblers.

According to the latest UT/TT Poll, most Texas voters support expanded gambling and would legalize marijuana. Half would leave Confederate statues and monuments where they are. And they're divided on whether to change state abortion laws or leave them as is.

From Texas Standard: In Texas, gambling is illegal in almost all forms. But you’d never know it driving down Business 77 in Willacy County. It cuts...

"Congress can regulate sports gambling directly," the court wrote in a decision released Monday, "but if it elects not to do so, each state is free to act on its own."

If you’ve spent any time in a casino, you know how absorbing those blinking, candy-colored slot machines can be. On Think, Krys Boyd talked with…

The Texas Racing Commission has reversed course and voted to bar horse and dog tracks statewide from using "historical racing" terminals that allow bets…