Atlantic City News

" U.S. Representative Frank A. LoBiondo has secured $11,250,000 in federal funding for local beach replenishment and construction projects in New Jersey's 2nd District, including $6,500,000 for beach renourishment in Ocean City's north end and $2,000,000 for beach renourishment in Atlantic City.

EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP - The "international" is becoming more prominent at Atlantic City International Airport. Canada-based WestJet announced Wednesday that it will start seasonal service between Atlantic City International and Toronto this fall. From Oct. 22 through May, WestJet flights will depart Toronto for Atlantic City International at 7 p.m., with return flights leaving the airport here at 9:15 p.m. Introductory fares start at $79.

The tides are changing in this seaside resort. Thirty one years after Atlantic City was reborn as the East Coast's answer to Las Vegas, visitors no longer have to head for the Jersey shore to gamble.

New Jersey's horse racing and casino gambling industries still have a long way to go in developing a collaborative strategy to meet the competitive challenges emerging in neighboring states.

Competition is heating up between Canada's two largest airlines as Air Canada vowed Wednesday to compete aggressively to preserve its market share despite WestJet's plans to expand its service next winter.

You have to read a little deeply into this story, but it eventually mentions a new airline coming to AC. -ed.

New Jersey gambling industry representatives are meeting today to discuss the challenges posed by neighboring states.

Foxwoods Resort Casino and Mohegan Sun, long the fiercest of rivals, have joined forces to take dead aim at their main competition: Atlantic City's 11 casinos.

This article quotes an "expert" as saying

Atlantic City casinos view themselves as competing with and losing to Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun. They don't have the same convention space, the entertainment, the golf courses.

Well, perhaps there are individual casinos that do not measure up in certain categories, but the city has one of the largest convention venues on the East Coast, there about 20 golf courses within 30-minutes, and the entertaiment lineup is matched only by Las Vegas. -ed

A city employee in Atlantic City has been suspended from her job after being charged in a voting fraud case.

ABSECON Brenda Percy didn't say exactly how old she was other than to identify it as "retirement age." She did say she started working for her employer in April, 1963, when she was 19 years old.

ACES reaffirms its commitment to a summer of savings and value ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The Atlantic City Express Service - the only direct train service between New York City and Atlantic City - announced it will extend its $29 fare promotion through the end of July.

The job losses that have plagued the resort's casino industry were less severe in June for the first time in nine months.

The commission that runs the Atlantic City Expressway is studying making the toll road cash-free. Drivers would still have to pay the tolls - currently $6 per round trip.

One part comedy, one part dance and one part magic (roughly) and the result is greater than the sum of its parts---and a good entertainment value that will make you feel good.

It gave the world the term 'airport,' but the future of Bader Field is in a holding pattern right now.

Two more campaign workers have been charged with voter fraud over alleged abuse of absentee ballots in the recent Atlantic City mayoral primary.

ATLANTIC CITY The Atlantic City Convention & Visitors Authority will honor late Trump employee Ray Kot of Egg Harbor Township with a new award category in its 2010 Atlantic City Host Awards.

TAMPA, Fla. a ' Billy Mays, the burly, bearded television pitchman whose boisterous hawking of products such as Orange Glo and OxiClean made him a pop-culture icon, has died.

(Mays joins Ed McMahon as second former Atlantic City pitchman to die recently. -ed.)

NEWPORT -- Two people stranded on a personal watercraft in waters off southern New Jersey were found uninjured by Coast Guard rescue crews.

Some five years ago we experienced the first Cirque Dreams show to come to Atlantic City. Since then, the series has thrived and continues to be a good entertainment value.

An Egg Harbor Township man was arrested today on a federal Indictment for running a heroin smuggling and distribution organization that imported heroin from Columbia and distributed the drugs in New York City and Atlantic County, Acting U.S. Attorney Ralph J. Marra, Jr., announced.