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  • Phil MurphyEnvironment

    Danish wind giant, reeling from $4 billion write-off in New Jersey, calls America ‘the most painful part of our portfolio’

    By Wayne Parry and The Associated Press
  • Land-based wind turbines turn in Atlantic City, N.J. on July 20, 2023. On Oct. 2, 2023, New York based Attentive Energy said it plans to build a wind energy farm 42 miles off the coast of Seaside Heights, N.J., the farthest offshore of the seven wind projects publicly proposed for New Jersey and among the farthest offshore on the U.S. East Coast. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)Tech

    World’s largest wind energy developer scraps 2 large offshore projects in New Jersey, adding to list of U.S. cancellations

    By Wayne Parry and The Associated Press
  • The Bellagio hotel and casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, on Friday, July 28, 2023. MGM Resorts International is scheduled to release earnings figures on August 2. Photographer: Bridget Bennett/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesFinance

    Recession fears haven’t stopped Americans from gambling—and the casino industry is on track to win a record $60 billion this year

    By Wayne Parry and The Associated Press
  • An error message is displayed on a machine at MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. MGM Resorts said a cybersecurity attack began Sunday, affecting reservations and casino floors in Las Vegas and other states. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)Tech

    Casino cyber attacks in Las Vegas leave slot machines dark, visitors unsettled: ‘The same thing could happen to other properties’

    By Rio Yamat, Wayne Parry, and others
  • Casino workerLifestyle

    Commercial casinos just had their best July ever, with $5.4 billion of winnings—and that doesn’t even count tribal casinos

    By Wayne Parry and The Associated Press
  • Jason Robins, chief executive officer and co-founder of DraftKings Inc., listens during the Bloomberg Power Players Summit in Miami, Florida, U.S., on Friday, Jan. 31, 2020. The summit brings together dealmakers, risk takers and world-class athletes to discuss the future of the multi-billion dollar global sports industry. Photographer: Marco Bello/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesLifestyle

    DraftKings apologizes for ‘tone deaf’ betting offer that sparked outrage by referencing 9/11 terror attacks

    By Wayne Parry and The Associated Press
  • Dee SniderSuccess

    Dee Snider uninvited himself from SF Pride but insists he’s ‘a supporter of the trans community and the gay community. I dressed in drag and stood tall’

    By Wayne Parry and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A red-shouldered hawk fluffs up it’s feathers and spreads wings to facilitate drying after a thunderstorm in Chattanooga, Tenn., on Dec. 31, 2021. On April 6, 2023, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection issued a violation notice against one of its own sub-divisions accusing it of wrongly clearing 15 acres of a wildlife management area in southwestern New Jersey. The work was designed to create habitat for the American woodcock, but wound up destroying habitat for the barred owl, which is threatened, and the red-shouldered hawk, which is endangered. (Robin Rudd/Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP, File)Environment

    New Jersey might fine itself for destroying a bird habitat it swore to protect

    By Wayne Parry and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A man makes a bet at a kiosk in the Borgata casino in Atlantic City NJ on March 19, 2021 at the start of the March Madness college basketball tournament. On Tuesday, March 28, 2023, the American Gaming Association issued a new marketing code prohibiting sports books from partnering with colleges to promote sports wagering, banning payments to college and amateur athletes for the use of their name, image or likeness, and ending the use of terms including “free” or “risk-free” to describe promotional bets (AP Photo/Wayne Parry, File)Finance

    The U.S. gambling industry bans marketing partnerships with colleges as sports betting flourishes

    By
  • A gambler plays a slot machine while smoking in the Ocean Casino Resort in Atlantic City N.J. on Feb. 10, 2022. On Thursday, March 9, 2023, New Jersey legislators held a second hearing on a bill that would prohibit smoking at Atlantic City’s casinos, but again did not vote on it. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)Health

    Atlantic City casino workers beg for a smoking ban: ‘Is this the day I inhale the cloud of smoke that gives me cancer?’

    By Wayne Parry and The Associated Press
  • A tugboat drives by wind turbine is placed off the coast in Newark Bay in Elizabeth, New JerseyFinance

    New Jersey wants more offshore wind farms as critics point to 25 dead whales as casualties

    By Wayne Parry and The Associated Press
  • Dead whale in New JerseyEnvironment

    Dead whales keep washing ashore in New Jersey and experts have no idea why

    By Wayne Parry and The Associated Press
  • a sports book employee at the Ocean Casino Resort in Atlantic City.Success

    Americans are more than doubling their Super Bowl wagers this year to $16 billion as legal sports betting explodes

    By Wayne Parry and The Associated Press
  • Janet Tauro, an environmental activist, speaks at a public meeting on Wednesday, Jan., 25, 2023, in Toms River, N.J., about a proposed settlement between the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and BASF Corp to restore natural resources that were damaged by the operations of the former Ciba Geigy chemical plant.Environment

    A chemical plant’s polluting poisoned a generation of children in a small town. The settlement that the state just made has residents up in arms

    By Wayne Parry and The Associated Press
  • New Jersey gamblingFinance

    New Jersey loves gambling again, but it’s different this time around

    By Wayne Parry and The Associated Press