Fri, Jun 26, 2009
Two years ago the Turtle Mountain Casino looked finished. But now, with economic times hard, the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa in North Dakota are finding more enthusiasm for a casino in Grand Forks.
Fri, Jun 26, 2009
The Bureau of Indian Affairs wants to wait until a challenge to putting 254 acres belonging to the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria into trust land finishes wending its way through the courts before taking a final action on the land in northern California.
Fri, Jun 26, 2009
Opponents of the Three Rivers Casino in Florence have a right to challenge the constitutionality of the compact that allowed the casino to be built in 2004, the Oregon Supreme Court ruled last week. The casino operated by the Coos, Lower Umpqua & Siuslaw Indians isn’t the only one at risk if the legal challenge bears fruit.
Fri, Jun 26, 2009
Last week the Blue Lake Casino near Eureka, Northern California, opened a new $13 million, four-story hotel.
Fri, Jun 26, 2009
A federal judge has denied California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s request for a delay of a case that, if it goes against him, will allow the Rincon tribe in San Diego County to deploy the full 2,000 slot machines that its compact authorizes, something the governor has been trying to stop.
Fri, Jun 26, 2009
The Massachusetts tribe that wants to build a casino in Middleboro has decided that the agreement it negotiated three years ago with developers Sol Kerzner and Len Wolman gives the investors too much and the tribe too little. The Mashpee Wampanoag tribe wants to renegotiate.
Fri, Jun 26, 2009
Indian casinos in the Golden State are weathering the recession much better than commercial casinos in Las Vegas. Last year California’s casino revenues fell 5.6 percent, compared to 10 percent for Las Vegas.
Fri, Jun 26, 2009
New Mexico’s Raton held a twin celebration last week, that of a ground-breaking for a new racino expected to open in less than two years, and of Raton’s Mine That Bird, which won this year’s Kentucky Derby.
Fri, Jun 26, 2009
A lawsuit by the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe of South Dakota against the state has hit a brick wall due to arguments over what may be admitted in evidence. The tribe claims that former Governor Bill Janklow’s administration negotiated its tribal state gaming compact in bad faith.
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