The Big Lagoon Rancheria has until the end of the week to extend its plan for an off-reservation casino in Barstow, California. The tribe is based hundreds of miles from Barstow. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) agreed to an off-reservation casino...

The Morongo Band of Mission Indians of California has chosen a new general manager for its casino resort. Sean Sullivan comes to the tribe from Las Vegas, where he has 25 years of experience. "Sullivan is a widely respected veteran...

"Fifty-eight of the state's 107 tribes currently operate casinos. Under terms of the 1999 state-tribal compacts, most of the casino tribes pay into a fund that supplies the noncasino tribes most of which are too far out in the sticks...

"Plans by an Indian tribe and powerful Las Vegas gaming firm intent on ramming a gargantuan casino complex onto farmland west of Rohnert Park demonstrate how bad laws, money and political influence are overwhelming, and ultimately ruining local communities in...